# Will you pronounce your screen name please? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 27, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789 "2008-05-27T17:57:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/81 "2008-05-28T00:31:57Z")
I’m sorry but some of you are pronouncing your names wrong. And I don’t think the pronunciation of **Shayna** is obvious. For it to be obvious, I should be able to easily pronounce the syllables that make up the name. I have no idea how to pronounce “Shay”. My educated guess might be right, but based on some of the screwball pronounciations we’re seeing in this thread, I can’t be certain. I know that when I see it, my mind says “Shanaya”, who is, I think, some sort of country western singer. Regards, Patio Furniture ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/82 "2008-05-28T00:36:55Z")
Dan Alan ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/83 "2008-05-28T00:37:43Z")
[QUOTE=Patty O’Furniture] I have no idea how to pronounce “Shay”. [/QUOTE] Rhymes with “say,” I would assume. I suppose it could also be “shy,” but I’ve never heard Shayna/Shaina pronounced that way. It’s the feminine form of the name “Shane.” ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/84 "2008-05-28T00:40:14Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”? 😃 [/QUOTE] \ ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/85 "2008-05-28T00:41:20Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] I was thinking “I am the Walrus.” _d&r_ [/QUOTE] \ ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/86 "2008-05-28T00:43:55Z")
Kie (rhymes with ‘pie’) - thur - ay - ah. _ducks any random flying wet trouts_ ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/87 "2008-05-28T00:48:59Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] \ [/QUOTE] 😃 [QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] You’ve been here long enough to post nearly 18,000 times and you don’t know “d&r” means “ducks & runs”? [/QUOTE] Thanks and yes, it is embarrassing that I never asked before. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/88 "2008-05-28T00:50:12Z")
[QUOTE=Caricci] Kah-DEECH. My husband invented the name and spelling. My father calls me Kah-DEEN-cha and this is where my husband seems to have gotten it. What do you want from me. My name is Karen. [/QUOTE] Color me 😕 I see your name and think to pronounce it Kah/reechee or Kah/reesee, not Kah/deech. Wherefrom the deech? I know someone with Ricci as a last name, and it’s Reesee… 😕 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/89 "2008-05-28T00:55:14Z")
I’m guessing it’s Czech. Like Nadia. ---
**Author:** ![CoBa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f6c823/32.png) [@CoBa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoBa)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/90 "2008-05-28T01:00:29Z")
Coe-Bah. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/91 "2008-05-28T01:11:19Z")
**POOH-kuh.** An archaic variant of “puck”. That is, the type of faerie Robin Goodfellow is, in Shakespeare’s _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, my favorite of his comedies. IRL, I go by my middle name, Robin. Also, it’s not capitalized. I am a common noun. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/92 "2008-05-28T01:14:03Z")
See-Air-Uh In-Dee-Go. You says it like you sees it. My other preferred name is “Sindigo” - Sin-Dee-Go. But the number of people playing TF2 who had problems saying it over the voice chat was phenomenal. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/93 "2008-05-28T01:23:18Z")
BEE-low (silent “n”) Day-ub-EER Just kidding. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ignis\_glaciesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@ignis\_glaciesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ignis_glaciesque)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/94 "2008-05-28T01:26:30Z")
IG-niss glass-ee-ESS-kway. Or however you wanna pronounce it. It’s Latin anyways, and one thing about that language is that you basically can choose your own pronunciation at will. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/95 "2008-05-28T01:46:09Z")
[QUOTE=Sierra Indigo] See-Air-Uh In-Dee-Go. You says it like you sees it. My other preferred name is “Sindigo” - Sin-Dee-Go. But the number of people playing TF2 who had problems saying it over the voice chat was phenomenal. [/QUOTE] This might be one of those “divided by a common language” phenomena. I (and all other English speakers I’ve actually heard) pronounce “Indigo” INN-duh-go, with the second vowel actually a schwa as opposed to a short u. If I had seen “Sindigo” in isolation, however, I might have assumed it to be Spanish, and thus pronounced it as you do. **silenus** : I always figured “Caricci” was Italian, and I thus pronounced it “kah-REE-chee”, but some Italian-Americans drop the final syllable. Also, I know that “Laura” sounds much like “Lauda” in Spanish, so I’m not surprised that Italians may also pronounce the “r” as if it’s a “d”. I could see **Caricci** saying “The name’s Kah-DEECH, [_capisce_?](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=capisce)” ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/96 "2008-05-28T02:05:54Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Five. Four. Fighting. As in, “Tweet! That’s a five-minute penalty in the box for fighting!” Hope that helps. [/QUOTE] You’ve no idea how much! All this time I never understood what that meant. Mine is Ninety Weight. Like the oil. You know, 30-weight, 40-weight, 90-weight. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/97 "2008-05-28T02:18:33Z")
IPA approximation: ['fax-fEr-virt]. The is the German “achlaut”, back of the throat guttural sound. Accent on the first syllable. When I say it, I more or less drop the Rs, but there are different schools of thought on that. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/98 "2008-05-28T02:21:50Z")
[QUOTE=NinetyWt] You’ve no idea how much! All this time I never understood what that meant. [/QUOTE] I thought he named himself after the [singer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_for_Fighting). ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/99 "2008-05-28T02:42:58Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] Color me 😕 I see your name and think to pronounce it Kah/reechee or Kah/reesee, not Kah/deech. Wherefrom the deech? I know someone with Ricci as a last name, and it’s Reesee… 😕 [/QUOTE] Some people imitate a certain European “r” sound (the alveolar flap, as in Spanish “pero,” or sometimes even an alveolar trill) as a “d” sound in English. Think of how sometimes people will say “veddy veddy” to imitate an Eastern European pronunciation of the words “very very.” ---
**Author:** ![Mumio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@Mumio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mumio)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/100 "2008-05-28T03:17:15Z")
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