# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![CateAyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@CateAyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CateAyo)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/121 "2008-05-28T15:18:48Z")
**Jah** -Tee **Ah** -Yo ---
**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, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/122 "2008-05-28T15:46:40Z")
[QUOTE=Risha] 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. [/QUOTE] Boy, I just assumed it would be pronounced: Kwad gop the Mêr cO tan I am using the capital O as a long O as I cannot get alt-0333 to work in this post. ---
**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, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/123 "2008-05-28T15:55:03Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Boy, I just assumed it would be pronounced: Kwad gop the Mêr cO tan I am using the capital O as a long O as I cannot get alt-0333 to work in this post. [/QUOTE] I think that my problem is that I have a hard time with the “ad-go” transition in the first part. The D followed immediately by a G just doesn’t pronounce naturally for me unless it’s part of the same syllable, like in “dodge”. Sorry **QtM**. ---
**Author:** ![Purgatory\_Creek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Purgatory\_Creek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purgatory_Creek)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/124 "2008-05-28T16:07:46Z")
[QUOTE=LurkMeister] Throatwarbler Mangrove you knew _somebody_ was going to do it [/QUOTE] Heh. That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread. Mine’s easy: Purr-gah-toe-ree Creek (or Crick for us country folk). ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/125 "2008-05-28T16:32:15Z")
Arch-I-Vay Ghee. Not Really 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/126 "2008-05-28T16:38:59Z")
The following are all acceptable: “Really Not All That Bright”, which you may modify with a glottal stop in the last word, as in “silly English k-nig-hut”; “Arr-enn-ay-tee-bee”; “Ruh-na-tub” with the shortest u sound you can possibly make in “tub”. I think Runnatub is my preferred pronunciation. At least, that’s what I think of as my handle. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/127 "2008-05-28T16:46:47Z")
row-KHUT-tie-air ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/128 "2008-05-28T16:50:20Z")
Mine is pronounced exactly as it is written. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/129 "2008-05-28T16:59:17Z")
[QUOTE=vivalostwages] Mine is pronounced exactly as it is written. [/QUOTE] I’ve always mentally said it like the Elvis song - you’re never just “viva lost wages”, but “Viva… lost wages!” ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/130 "2008-05-28T17:25:34Z")
[QUOTE=Pigs in Space] PIIIGS IN SPAAAACE! [/QUOTE] Can’t let this one pass without acknowledgment: I LOL’d. ---
**Author:** ![Amygdala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@Amygdala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amygdala)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/131 "2008-05-28T17:35:13Z")
Mine’s uh MIG duh luh. (Replace those "uh"s with that upside-down e–I’m too lazy to find it on my computer.) ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/132 "2008-05-28T17:51:49Z")
Go [here](http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=836075) and click on ‘Le Ministre’. ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/133 "2008-05-28T18:00:01Z")
Show-suv. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/134 "2008-05-28T18:16:47Z")
“As-zih-MOW-vee-en” Or, according to one online friend who refused to sound it out, Ass Is A-Movin’. But it depends on the music. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Vorpal\_Blade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9de0a6/32.png) [@Vorpal\_Blade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vorpal_Blade)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/135 "2008-05-28T18:22:08Z")
Cthulhu ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/136 "2008-05-28T18:24:19Z")
[QUOTE=bikebloke] Cthulhu [/QUOTE] So, do you look like [this](http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/Screaming%20Cthulhu%20-%20Large.jpg) , then? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/137 "2008-05-28T18:24:38Z")
Well actually, I’m not sure either. I stole it from a book. But if I had to pronounce it I would say: Ka-da-gee ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/138 "2008-05-28T18:26:28Z")
I assume my name’s easy enough to pronounce. [QUOTE=Cluricaun] 'Klur-upside down e-kan. Don’t know how to code the upsidedown e thing. [/QUOTE] Do you mean the [schwa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa) (unstressed neutral vowel), which makes your name KLUR-ə-kahn? From now on, I won’t be able to help thinking of you as “Clurschwacaun.” Or should we just call you clobhair-ceann and hide the booze? Remember that great Spider Robinson story about the cluricaun in Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/139 "2008-05-28T18:35:41Z")
lōch As in [this.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-6) Not [this.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loach_%28fish%29) Or [this.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Loach) ---
**Author:** ![Vorpal\_Blade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9de0a6/32.png) [@Vorpal\_Blade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vorpal_Blade)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/140 "2008-05-28T18:36:13Z")
[QUOTE=Le Ministre de l’au-delà] So, do you look like [this](http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/Screaming%20Cthulhu%20-%20Large.jpg) , then? [/QUOTE] More icky. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789.md?page=8)