# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Marconi\_Schmeese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Marconi\_Schmeese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_Schmeese)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/101 "2008-05-28T03:36:16Z")
Mar-cone-nee and sh-meez ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/102 "2008-05-28T04:03:59Z")
Kat 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/103 "2008-05-28T04:19:00Z")
“Bane Shee” ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/104 "2008-05-28T04:20:59Z")
[QUOTE=Darryl Lict] Derelict. [/QUOTE] :smack: I can’t believe I never got that! Mine: “LL”, which are my initials, also a lil’ joke about he “el”/she “elle”, and the parallel universe of the interwebs. No “ellie” or “eels”. That same name also has something to do with a gas plant in Saudi Arabia, which I am not involved with, to set the record clear. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/105 "2008-05-28T04:24:04Z")
el-kaeBAWNG. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/106 "2008-05-28T04:24:43Z")
Matt mick-ELL. ---
**Author:** ![Pigs\_in\_Space](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@Pigs\_in\_Space](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pigs_in_Space)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/107 "2008-05-28T04:47:52Z")
PIIIGS IN SPAAAACE! ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/108 "2008-05-28T04:48:59Z")
Like [this](http://web.tampabay.rr.com/miketurk/Sound%20clip%2040.wav). Or like “BAM-bi HAASS en fef fer”, if you can’t do sound files. ---
**Author:** ![Kerrigan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/49beb7/32.png) [@Kerrigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kerrigan)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/109 "2008-05-28T04:58:12Z")
Ker-ri-ghen That’s probably too much. Go with “Kerrigan,” as in Nancy. (But not actually as in Nancy, k? Thanks.) ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/110 "2008-05-28T05:00:13Z")
Naba, the "a"s as in cat. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/111 "2008-05-28T05:03:06Z")
**Roo** (Like the Winnie the Pooh guy) **Shhhhh** (like you’re shushing someone) OR if you want to correct about it: \*\*Roo Sh \*\* uh…Like you’re starting to shush someone, but you cut it off before saying any of the H’s :shrug: It’s kinda like a “shhuh” sound. I’m just over thinking it probably. So just say it how you see it, and just remember though to focus on the “Roo” more so. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/112 "2008-05-28T05:33:59Z")
> [@](#): > > But others have names that are a little weird to pronounce in my mind when I read them like **Qadgop the Mercotan** Actually I have a strange issue with this name as for some reason I don’t even remotely read it right. In my head he is always **Quagdog the Mercaptan**. I have no idea what his name is about so I have apparently morphed it into something that at least resembles what I am familiar with. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/113 "2008-05-28T05:36:06Z")
Welsh for water, should be pronounced something like du-weer. But, since I read it in a book many years ago and did not know that when I named my tabby cat, I pronounce it as dwire. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/114 "2008-05-28T05:36:10Z")
[QUOTE=WarmNPrickly] In my head he is always **Quagdog the Mercaptan**. I have no idea what his name is about so I have apparently morphed it into something that at least resembles what I am familiar with. [/QUOTE] I have that same issue but mines more Dyslexic in nature- I tend to see it as Quag-dop the Mercotan ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/115 "2008-05-28T06:19:47Z")
Ah-leh-SAHN. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/116 "2008-05-28T06:48:02Z")
Chow-dah ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/117 "2008-05-28T12:48:47Z")
Indy Nate Or Nate from Indy Or whatever ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/118 "2008-05-28T13:28:48Z")
_sandra en zed_ (Lose 10 points if you thought it was _sandra en zee_) ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/119 "2008-05-28T13:52:32Z")
Muir glis The Muir is like me-your run together quickly. It may well have been pronounced differently in old French, but that’s the way I’ve always heard it. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/120 "2008-05-28T14:41:04Z")
[QUOTE=WarmNPrickly] Actually I have a strange issue with this name as for some reason I don’t even remotely read it right. In my head he is always **Quagdog the Mercaptan**. I have no idea what his name is about so I have apparently morphed it into something that at least resembles what I am familiar with. [/QUOTE] Even though the actual name has been explained a million times, I’m afraid that he’ll always be “Quadpog the Mercutian” in my head. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789.md?page=7)