# Zinged! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 21, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zinged/746722 "2016-02-21T18:31:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [February 21, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zinged/746722/1 "2016-02-21T18:31:19Z")
"…so it’s “Gab-al-DOAN,” I tell **Mrs R**. “I did like I promised, and posted a thread on The Straight Dope, and the consensus was that that’s how it’s pronounced.” “I never asked you to post a thread,” she says. “You did so,” I reply indignantly, “You said ‘Please, please, post a thread on the Dope so you can enlighten me.’” A pause; might as well tease her a little. “Of course, that’s how you can tell I’m lying; I have you saying ‘please’.” I look over. She’s grinning and has a twinkle in her eye as she responds: “Not to mention, your story has me asking you for enlightenment.” :D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zinged/746722/2 "2016-02-21T21:16:32Z")
The hell is a gab-al-doan? ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zinged/746722/3 "2016-02-21T22:26:51Z")
Are you talking about the author: Diana Gabaldon? If so, here is a fun website that we librarians sometimes use - [Author & Illustrator Pronunciation Guide | TeachingBooks](http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronunciations.cgi) Pick an author, and you will get a short recording of the author him/herself pronouncing their last name. I never knew how to correctly say Scieszka until coming across this. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2016, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zinged/746722/4 "2016-02-22T06:33:23Z")
> [@scootergirl](#): > > Are you talking about the author: Diana Gabaldon? If so, here is a fun website that we librarians sometimes use - [Author & Illustrator Pronunciation Guide | TeachingBooks](http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronunciations.cgi) > > Pick an author, and you will get a short recording of the author him/herself pronouncing their last name. I never knew how to correctly say Scieszka until coming across this. Ha! What a great site! (But no listing for Diana G ☹ ) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2016, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zinged/746722/5 "2016-02-22T07:11:17Z")
In the recent news about the iPhone that the FBI wants Apple to crack, the name Jonathan Zdziarski has turned up here and there. How in the English-speaking world does one pronounce _that?_ From [iPhone Forensics White Paper - Zdziarski technique](https://www.nowsecure.com/blog/2009/07/11/iphone-forensics-white-paper-zdziarski-technique/): > [@](#): > > Jonathan Zdziarski is a Research Scientist for McAfee, Inc., and well known outside of work in the iPhone community as “NerveGas”, who has contributed significantly to research into the iPhone and iPod touch. He has authored many utilities, and devised many of the methods used to open the iPhone’s platform to the open source community. Zdziarski has written three books pertaining to the iPhone platform . . . ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zinged/746722/6 "2016-02-22T14:15:26Z")
It’s short, but I always liked [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=582778)pronunciation thread. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2016, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zinged/746722/7 "2016-02-22T22:07:58Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > In the recent news about the iPhone that the FBI wants Apple to crack, the name Jonathan Zdziarski has turned up here and there. How in the English-speaking world does one pronounce _that?_ > > From [iPhone Forensics White Paper - Zdziarski technique](https://www.nowsecure.com/blog/2009/07/11/iphone-forensics-white-paper-zdziarski-technique/): It’s pronounced “Smith”. The z’s are silent.