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What's in a name?

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  • Started 12 years ago by Greenroofer
  • Latest reply from Baldcyclist

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  1. Greenroofer
    Member

    I met Uberuce in real life yesterday. We exchanged greetings. I said I was Greenroofer on the forum, and he said he was YouBruce.

    I walked away from the conversation thinking 'You're not YouBruce. I've always known you in my mind as Ooberoochay' (think Liberace).

    Some names on the forum are obvious: you can't go far wrong with Dave, and I assume DaveC isn't pronounced Day-veck. I assume too that SRD doesn't favour the pronunciation Surd over Ess-Are-Dee. Similarly, I assume it's Ant, and not An-th.

    For a long time I thought we had someone called Ree-com-bod-na on the forum, and in fact I still favour that rendering.

    I've frankly no idea what sounds to make for Bhachgen.

    Am I alone in this, or do we need a guide where the owners of potentially confusing pronunciations give a definitive view on how they like to be known?

    ...or does that spoil the fun?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  2. gembo
    Member

    g-roofer - you should get Spitters to do a diagram as he has had to change his name many many times in a way that none of the rest of us have had to [Cyclingmollie did become Tom and there wasn't even an operation} but Spits has been Spitfire, Spytfire, Spitfyre and Spitefire to name but a few [many of which I have just made up]

    Posted 12 years ago #

  3. chdot
    Admin

    Nah it's uber ooce

    In case of doubt it's C H .

    Posted 12 years ago #

  4. gembo
    Member

    C H . did you not used to have a brother C J . that ran Sunshine Desserts?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  5. Nelly
    Member

    Nah, you are thinking of K C and he ran the Sunshine Band

    Posted 12 years ago #

  6. cb
    Member

    "Am I alone in this"

    No; at least not as far as I'm concerned.

    Maybe this would be an opportunity for forum members to stick down their preferred phonetic rendering.

    See-Bee

    Posted 12 years ago #

  7. Uberuce
    Member

    @Greenroofer: you were alas a victim of my terrible diction, not helped by the fact that the ASC is hardly a library in terms of background noise. Either way, the Y sound sneaked in erroneously.
    ExcitableBoy had the same pronunciation in mind, so you're not alone. I wonder if either or both of you studied Italian?

    As chdot says, it's uber ooce, in the Germanic mould, but if florid hand gestures and espresso are involved, I'll happily answer to the Italian.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  8. Roibeard
    Member

    I'd gone for the Über-uce rendering, and I think the superlative fits!

    As for Roibeard, properly Roibeárd, it's simply pronounced "Robert", just the Irish spelling...

    Robert

    Posted 12 years ago #

  9. chdot
    Admin

    I prefer Roy Beard!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  10. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Most definitely not 'Ant' and most certainly 'Anth' as my name is not 'Antony' but rather very 'th' pronounced 'Anthony'.

    [EDIT - as far as I understand it the rendering to 'Anth' is a north-east England thing, place of my birth, and all my relatives there, plus schoolfriends from Aberdeenshire, call me that - I became 'Tony' at uni through no attempt of my own, and my other half knows me as that as it continued into my work life as I started at the same firm as a couple of my uni peers. I shifted int he last two jobs deliberately back to 'Anthony', and in the last job worked with a guy from the north-east of England who, without forewarning, called me 'Anth']

    Posted 12 years ago #

  11. chdot
    Admin

    Can't be ant, doesn't have enough legs.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  12. SRD
    Moderator

    Colleague of mine guessed that I knew you via cycling because I called you 'Anth' not 'Tony'. better tell him it's all broken down...

    Posted 12 years ago #

  13. Darkerside
    Member

    Despite staring at it for a good minute, I still can't work out recombodna as any other than the pronunciation given above. Someone illuminate me...?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  14. wingpig
    Member

    @anth Presumably, for consistency, you insist that anyone calling you 'Tony' pronounces it 'Thony'?

    @Darkerside When I was at school we called it 'recombinant DNA'.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  15. SRD
    Moderator

    reh not ree?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  16. chdot
    Admin

    How about reKombodna reKombod nah??

    Posted 12 years ago #

  17. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    @wingpig, that would be logical... As opined above, it was uni friends when I first met them that declared I was Tony. Nothing of my doing.

    @SRD, which colleague was that then???

    Posted 12 years ago #

  18. BicycleLegal
    Member

    @Anth - So if others declared you to be Tony or Anth, then is your preferred name Anthony?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  19. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Anth (to friends) or Anthony (at work). Tony is a select band who can get away with a name I don't particularly like. It would be odd to hear Mel call me anything different now.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  20. Nelly
    Member

    @darkerside You may also wish to google 'albums by Devo' to get more of a clue.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  21. crowriver
    Member

    @anth, that's definitely a north east thing. I was always taught that even if spelled Anthony, one should pronounce An-ton-i. You know, Marcus Antonius, the Antonine wall, etc.

    Anyone ever call you Anton? Then you could go all Germanic like Herr Über who was the cause of this thread.

    Surely there's no confusion over the pronunciation of my handle, which also has an Irish reference.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  22. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    "Anyone ever call you Anton?"

    Actually, yes. Became a nickname at football, but only because we had a wee penalty competition the same day the Scottish cup had gone to penalties, and I missed, just like Anton Rogan had...

    I assumed it was French... Chroo-reeeev-ay.... ;)

    Posted 12 years ago #

  23. DaveC
    Member

    I have always pro nounced 'Oober roose', SRD, RE COM BOD NA, Anth, & c. h. Dot., Rio Bardie

    Dave C

    Posted 12 years ago #

  24. recombodna
    Member

    Recombo DNA although I like Re-combodnah......

    http://youtu.be/Y_sgyLCPoMg

    Posted 12 years ago #

  25. Stepdoh
    Member

    I'm step-D'OH like the noise homer simpson makes. Mainly due to the fact a REFUUUSE to shorten my name to the v-variant contraction and Steph sounds a wee bit girly. (No offence to v-varienters and/or girls)

    I think Cyclingmollie changed to Tom for similar reasons :)

    Being trained in shorthand really helps in the modern world, cos the first thing your brain does is drop all the vowels.

    Can I suggest Amff?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  26. Baldcyclist
    Member

    For some reason I always see:
    Uber Cue
    Roi Beard
    Re Com Bod Na
    Koup Poot Nic
    Liv id

    Crowriver, and Riffian somehow remind me of songs??

    Therapy over for now...

    Posted 12 years ago #

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