Jah-Tee Ah-Yo
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.
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.
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).
Arch-I-Vay Ghee.
Not Really
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.
row-KHUT-tie-air
Mine is pronounced exactly as it is written.
I’ve always mentally said it like the Elvis song - you’re never just “viva lost wages”, but “Viva… lost wages!”
Can’t let this one pass without acknowledgment: I LOL’d.
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.)
Go here and click on ‘Le Ministre’.
Show-suv.
“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.
Cthulhu
So, do you look like this , then?
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
I assume my name’s easy enough to pronounce.
Do you mean the 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?
More icky.