In this thread, we like each others' screen names

So how is it pronounced? If I'm being serious I'd guess it starts with (what I'm told is) the sibilant fricative sound "ʒ", like the soft g in "garage".

Oh, I know. I say it tree-tahn-uh. The only thing about that name is sometimes people would verbally shorten to "Trit." Which is just. No.

Jassan, that I thought was a straightforward one. Nope. Jason, jass-AHN, and the way *I* say it, jass-sinn.


EDIT: And Sinnick, we already unraveled the mystery of how to say it earlier in the thread! :P

ssssssyyyyoooooo-ffffffiiiiiiinnnnnnnn

(or syah-fin, sort of, but fuck umlauts, this here is AMERICA)

This is why my WoW characters were Fartgnome the gnome warlock, Fartdwarf the dwarf priest and Farttroll, the troll shaman. No mispronunciations to be had.

I don't mind at all, since that's how it's pronounced.

(how else would you say it? It amazed me how often people will invent creative ways to mispronounce a four-letter word without any umlauts or accents.)

Obviously. it's pronounced Nuté.

In my head I always pronounce it as "noot".

My username's a brand-new creation just for this board. I wanted something unique but also ungoogleable, and since I was studying ancient Egyptian royal titulary at the time I picked "Nebty", which is the name of one of the sets of names given to a Pharaoh. Having a username that was the name of a name was appealingly meta.

Which is correct.

But I thought you said it was pronounced like "Newt"?

They're homophones.

They are? That's strange, I pronounce "noot" and "Newt" differently.

Ah-ha, it's an American thing, apparently.

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=newt

Midwesterner here, I would also pronounce those two differently.

Nute rhymes with:

• Loot
• Lute
• Suit
• Boot
• Hirsute
• Chute

But not with:

• Balut
• About (unless you're Canadian)
• Butt
• LOL WHUT
• Percy
• Duty
• Booty
• Velouté

That's odd. I'm American, and I'd pronounce the two words precisely the same.

I pronounce it with the K, personally.

Nute I would pronounce differently to Newt as well. Noot vs Nyoot

Nyyyyute is now how I will pronounce it, even though I would've said "noot" normally. Because it's as goofy to me as saying pyuma.

Oddly enough, the local dialect in Wisbech pronounces 'new' the American way, not standard English (i.e. noo, not nyoo) Some say that as the pilgrims came from East Anglia, they took the non-standard pronunciation with them.

It's 'wizbeach', not 'wizbeck'

My wife loves to make fun of the Minnesotan way I sometimes say root, roof, or creek. But even I wouldn't say "noot" for Nute.

Putting a y sound after the vowel is rank heresy.

Can we interject this discussion into the next podcast? Mostly because I want to hear a bunch of different people trying to pronounce "Nute" over and over again. :D

Also: Milk, Forty, Oil, Crayon, Coupon, February, Apricot, and Bag.

FerdieLance was my character in an Ace Attorney RP, a lawyer with a snake motif. I think AA names are pretty much required to be puns. It eventually became my default handle, replacing my earlier Gilbert and Sullivan-derived name (JohnWWells, which was too commonly used.)

Anyone who thinks that the source of their name was dorky can be comforted that at least they didn't get it from lawyer roleplaying.

I got my username from an anime about beautiful anthropomorphized train stations solving the life problems of various women. I'm not sure whether or not it's a bad thing I'm willing to admit this so easily.
And I like Dances With Squids' username, I think. Cephalopods, yay~!

As a Californian, I would only say newt "nyoot" if quoting MP's Holy Grail.

Do you also say Nukeyaler?

It's nukeYOOler, tyvm.

No, because while I may have the accent of a yokel, I can actually read and discern what order the letters appear in.

Besides, I just say "atomic".

Do you also say, Froderick?

I've been using XPav for years, it's part of my name. Kind of.

Before that, in the dialup.... BBS days..... I used Neuromancer. I sure am glad I changed that, no way I would want to pull that particular brand of 80s futurism off.

Trying to decide if lawyer RP or G&S is dorkier.

I am the very model of a modern prosecution dude
I like to scream OBJECTION! when the defendants are being rude
I ignore rules of evidence and how habeus corpus is used
For I am the very model of a modern prosecution dude

I always assumed it was a mashup of your name and an expression of your love for this guy.

REPORTED - obviously a spambot because nobody loves X-Pac. NOBODY.

He just got tired of doin' what you told him to do.

That's the breaks.

Funny digression to explain why I hate X-Pac so much.

Back in 2001, Matt Bowyer introduced me to the world of wrasslin' video games with Smackdown 2 for the Playstation. As you do in these games, I created myself as a wrestler and had my first ever match against X-Pac.

I spent about twenty minutes being unable to reverse a goddamn headlock. I think I set new records for amounts of swearing at a video game.

When I found out that X-Pac was going to be an unlockable character in WWE '13, I was overjoyed. It's practically therapy now to throw the game in after work and beat the shit out of him (virtually) with a steel chair.

To be fair, no explanation is needed. Everybody hates X-Pac.

Despite my Scandinavian heritage, I say her name this way in my head. This is why I can usually type it while drunk.

On the other hand, I may now pronounce it as Sejoffin the Death Warrior.

He got better.

Bullshit, it doesn't get any better.

Ladies.

By coincidence, I happened across this article about the Pogues' "Fairytale of New York," which says...

You knew that, right?

I was informed by my Irish acquaintances while living there that it's actually spelled "póg mo thóin". Still pronounced roughly the same, though.

I'm a little weird about these things, though. I've memorised how to spell "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" without looking it up, and was even taught how to pronounce it correctly by a Welshman.