Pronunciation of Handles

[Felix]

Two dogs were walking towards each other on a path. One was a prissy poodle, with hair cropped into the latest Paris-fashion fuzzballs. The other was a flea-bitten torn eared mongrel.

As the poodle strutted past, she said [French accent] "My name is Fifi, spelled F - I - F - I." [/French accent]

The mongrel stopped, considered her for a moment and replied: [Texan accent] Oh yeah? My name's Fido. Spelled P-H-Y-D-E-A-U-X. [/Texan]

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As for Felix, the "e" is a continental pronunciation of "e": "aay".
The "i" is also continental, and pronounced "ee".
The "x" takes its pronuncination from Xylophone; a "z" sound.
What you end up with is something close to Fay-leez.

And if you believe that I'll tell you another one.

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"Ghoti" prounounced as "Fish".

GH from Cough

TI from any word ending in "-tion"

But what is the "o" from? Anyone know?

 

[A'koss]

...

Think sneeze.

 

[pogre]

ogre with a p in front.

 

[Harlock]

from his sig
"Ghoti" prounounced as "Fish".

GH from Cough

TI from any word ending in "-tion"

But what is the "o" from? Anyone know?

"o" as from women.

 

[Hand of Evil]

like 'cow' not 'row'

 

['o Skoteinos]

HO skoh-TIJ-nohs

The TIJ sound is kinda non excistant in the English language...

Anyway that's the Dutch pronounciation of the Greek text. The English pronounciation will be different, and the real pronounciation is probably lost to history...so it doesn't really matter anyway

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

my previous screen nick was bwgwl. i'll leave that one up to your imagination.

I always said that like the monster, boggle. That name looks very Welsh.

As for my name - well, it's pretty easy. Gable is always mispronounced though - I would have thought it easy enough. Just like Clark Gable's name. I've always gotten Gabble, Gobel, Gablee once...

 

[Sanackranib]

I have heard mine hacked up pretty bad to, it's really quite easy:

Sah-nack-rah-nib.

See that was easy and nobody even died. I guess I will have to seek the components for my lab expirements elsewhere.

 

[s/LaSH]

Mine's probably caused someone a little trouble in the past...

It was originally pronounced 'slash', but that's no longer the case. The '/' is silent, serving more as an apostrophe (but in a cool modern sort of way), so the whole thing comes out as 'ES-lash'.

Don't get me started on why I call myself s/LaSH when my name's Ben... there's a perfectly good reason, though.

 

[Henry]

You can call me 'hand' or may be 'evil' or 'HoE' or 'Ho' even 'garden hoe' but it all comes out as 'Tracy'.

When I met you at Gencon, I came THIS close to greeting you with, "Hey, Ho!" but I didn't know how you'd react.