How is your name pronounced?

[dodle]

Mine is: Dough-dull (color signifies emphasis on the syllable)

[Vitamin-Carrot]

Mine Is Pronounced Vitamin Carrot

[JillSwift]

Mine's pronounced /ih-ih/. The J, ll,Sw and ft are silent. ;)

[dodle]

Hey! This is a serious topic, no foolin' around :D

[hessiess]

hess-eye-ess

[Circus-Killer]

sur-kuhs kil-er

[Xzallion]

X-Zall-leon.
Its real similar to how you pronounce stallion after the st.

[RiceMonster]

Rice Monster

[billgoldberg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyQQ3_TjMyc&feature=related

[Masoris]

Mine Is Pronounced Vitamin Carrot

Vee-ta-min, Vit-uh-min ,Vahy-ta-min, or Vahyt-uh-min?

[Chibone]

The first part [chi] you say like the k in lock, and the second part [bone] looks how it sounds.

No "Chee-bone" or any such nonsense :D

[~LoKe]

Low Key

[dodle]

The first part [chi] you say like the k in lock, and the second part [bone] looks how it sounds.

No "Chee-bone" or any such nonsense

See, and all this time I would have been calling you Chee-bone in my head.

[dodle]

Low Key

How do you pronounce the "~" part?

[~LoKe]

How do you pronounce the "~" part?

That's just a bit of toilet paper that got stuck to...

[dodle]

That's just a bit of toilet paper that got stuck to...

Ewwwwww.....

[sstusick]

That's just a bit of toilet paper that got stuck to...:lolflag:

[Barrucadu]

Bar ooo cah doo

Short "ar", both times, emphasis on the B and C.

[dodle]

Bar ooo cah doo

Short "ar", both times, emphasis on the B and C.

I would have had that one way wrong.

[miggols99]

mih gooles 99

[sstusick]

s-stoo-sick

[pp.]

pee-pee-dot?

Actually, I haven't the foggiest. I just type it in. I am not in the habit of speaking to my PC.

[kahlil88]

Kuh-leel - most people get it wrong the first time, and everyone else says "oh, like Kahlil Gibran!"

[NovaAesa]

The Nova bit is easy. It's just like how you would say it in latin. Aesa is pronounced like the company acer.

[loell]

loell, pronounced as "loil", you know pronounced as "oil" prepended with letter L?.. :popcorn:

but i won't go hysterical if they pronounced it as lowel :lolflag:

[gn2]

jee-enn-too

[LaRoza]

However one says it. Whether that is correct or not doesn't matter as long as I don't hear it.

I noticed we have no phonetic spellings hear, and people are winging it...

My name is written in Devanagari in my title: लारोज़ा

That is about how it is pronounced also. If you don't understand Devanagari, go to Wikipedia and they have the IPA symbols there for each character.

[LaRoza]

jee-enn-too

Gentoo?

[RedSquirrel]

"red skwerrell" is pretty close to the pronunciation I use.

I think some people might pronounce it "red skweerell". :confused:

I have heard that "squirrel" is a difficult word to pronounce (especially for those learning English as a second language). I'm not sure if squirrels have difficulty with it.

[gn2]

Gentoo?

Perhaps.
It's a play on letters and a number as opposed to a play on words.
It's my initials and a 2.

[djsroknrol]

Mine is pronounced "Bob"...J/K :)

Dee-Jay's Rock 'n Roll (former radio DJ) :popcorn:

[LaRoza]

I have heard that "squirrel" is a difficult word to pronounce (especially for those learning English as a second language). I'm not sure if squirrels have difficulty with it.

I can see how many languages that would cause that word to be hard to say correctly.

[Barrucadu]

I would have had that one way wrong.
Very few people can pronounce my username without being told how :p

[elmer_42]

ELL mer FOR tee TOO

But most just call me Elmer, like Elmer Fudd.

[Dr Small]

Doctor Small

[Indigolynx]

In-dih-go-links

Hope that cleared that up

[Joeb454]

Doctor Small

:lol: That's almost as difficult as mine (note: the 'b' is the first letter of my last name)

[-grubby]

nay - than - grubb

[Dr Small]

:lol: That's almost as difficult as mine (note: the 'b' is the first letter of my last name)
Yeah, I don't pronounce your name, "Joe-eb" anymore, but "Joe Barker" :)

[LaRoza]

nay - than - grubb

"grubb" as in "groob" or in "grub"?

[zmjjmz]

zee em jay jay em zee
(It's my initials forwards then backwards)

[Nano Geek]

I pronounce mine "asjd-fwejqrf-jcvm msz3-4rq33"
Hopefully that clears things up. :)

[Joeb454]

Yeah, I don't pronounce your name, "Joe-eb" anymore, but "Joe Barker" :)

Charming.

If anything, my name is usually pronounced like "Jobe" - think "Ear Lobe"

[-grubby]

Charming.

If anything, my name is usually pronounced like "Jobe" - think "Ear Lobe"

I pronounce it Joe-bee-five-four-five

[LaRoza]

I pronounce mine "asjd-fwejqrf-jcvm msz3-4rq33"
Hopefully that clears things up. :)

Ah, I wasn't saying it correctly.

(We usually refer to you as "a<tab>" in case you are wondering)

[jolx]

mine's joe-lex

[Lostincyberspace]

Mine is pronounced "lɔst ihn saɪhttp://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.pngbərˌspeɪs" exactly like is sounds.

[zmjjmz]

I pronounce it Joe-bee-five-four-five

I think it's Jo ebfour hundred and fifty four.
Thus, there are 454 Joeb's in the world.

[zbiblo]

Mine is pronounced Zfordo. Zer four dough.:lolflag:

[RedSquirrel]

I can see how many languages that would cause that word to be hard to say correctly.

Indeed. Even English speakers have trouble with it. I remember years ago I saw an interview with two of the members of Duran Duran (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duran_Duran) (English pop band) and one of them could not pronounce "squirrel". He was teased mercilessly.

I think my phonetics were a little off in my earlier post. Perhaps it's closer to "skwerl". What I wrote earlier ("skwerrell") probably puts too much emphasis on the consonants. I give up.

This thread is more interesting than I thought it might be. I know how to pronounce Barrucadu now. :)

[Dr Small]

I know how to pronounce Barrucadu now. :)
I do too, but only after much discussion on the matter :D

[tribaal]

Tree-Bal (à la Française) :)

- Trib' (treeb' ;) )

[NilsE]

It's pronounced

Nils Plural for nothing - (The E is just my last initial)

[DUfire]

Dee-Yoo Fire o_o.

[happysmileman]

4 syllables

Ha-pee-smile-man

[bimmerd00d]

bimmer dude. Wow that was difficult wasn't it?

[Hire]

hAir :D

[~LoKe]

hAir :D

Not "Hi - er"?

[LaRoza]

Indeed. Even English speakers have trouble with it. I remember years ago I saw an interview with two of the members of Duran Duran (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duran_Duran) (English pop band) and one of them could not pronounce "squirrel". He was teased mercilessly.

I think my phonetics were a little off in my earlier post. Perhaps it's closer to "skwerl". What I wrote earlier ("skwerrell") probably puts too much emphasis on the consonants. I give up.


A few things that would be hard in other languages would be the initial "s" (Spanish), the initial two consonants. The weird dipthong (trithong?) and the rr's and l's in it.

[Corfy]

Mine is fairly simple, just "kor-fee", or like "corny", only replacing the N with an F.

[Hire]

Not "Hi - er"?

All my friends ( online and real life ) call me always "hair" :D
Before that I used "ire"

[schauerlich]

ee-day-vid-berg

But my name's not David.

[myusername]

/my/usr/name/firefox.bin

my user name

[lisati]

Lee-sah-tea

The "Lee" part is somewhere in between "Lee" (as in Bruce & Jet) and "Li" (as in List)

[LaRoza]

Lee-sah-tea

The "Lee" part is somewhere in between "Lee" (as in Bruce & Jet) and "Li" (as in List)

So it isn't long or short. Got it.

The imaginary "Li" sound.

[chucky chuckaluck]

you'd have to be from a different alphabet to mispronounce my name.

[dodle]

I pronounce mine "asjd-fwejqrf-jcvm msz3-4rq33"
Hopefully that clears things up. :)

I'm still confused.

[LaRoza]

you'd have to be from a different alphabet to mispronounce my name.

Or language other than english.

Not all languages have the "ch-" sound as in "change". In German, it could be a "sh" sound, or a very gutteral "k".

The "u" also has different sounds. A Spanish speaker would probably see "choocky choockaloock" (how an English speaker would read it). Also, Not all languages (in fact, a lot of them) use the "k".

[pp.]

you'd have to be from a different alphabet to mispronounce my name.

So the 'ch'-sounds are like the one the Scots make when they say 'Loch'?

[chucky chuckaluck]

that's fine. i'm cool with shucky le shuqueluque.

[pp.]

that's fine. i'm cool with shucky le shuqueluque.

That's more à la French. The scots do some guttural thing which sounds more like clearing the throat than anything else. So do the Germans, by the way.

Fancy being called Xooggee Xookuh-loog? (Where X is the guttural sound)

[Tindytim]

ティム

[bobbocanfly]

bob - oh (as if you were saying "oh right" or "oh, that sucks").

[LaRoza]

That's more à la French. The scots do some guttural thing which sounds more like clearing the throat than anything else. So do the Germans, by the way.


Arabs also. (Arabic have some wicked sounds as well.)

[dodle]

I pronounce mine "asjd-fwejqrf-jcvm msz3-4rq33"
Hopefully that clears things up. :)

Are you sure that's not your Windows' Product number?

[LaRoza]

Are you sure that's not your Windows' Product number?

It can't be...it is too short.

[thomashauk]

Tom-asss-haych-ay-eu-kay