How is your geocaching name pronounced?

19k · July 8, 2011

Side-note - I used to work in a customer service center where no one had the same name. Which meant some people had to pick a new one if someone already working there was using it.

Is that where Peggy got his name?

:lol:

Edited July 8, 2011 by knowschad

19k · July 8, 2011

Whenever I see this topic I can tell who it's directed at. :unsure:

For my geocaching name this may require a longish post, but I will give it a shot anyway.

First of all, the English language has just five vowels most of the time, but sometimes it also considers 'y' to be a vowel: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. But English isn't always that simple since they are not always pronounced the same way. There are long vowels and short vowels or silent vowels. I've been told that it is nothing like Italian, so I won't use it for examples

a is pronounced like a long or short a

e is pronounced like a long or short e

i is pronounced like ta long or short i

o is pronounced like the a long or short o

u is pronounced like a long or short u

English has diphthongs. When two vowels are together each retains its sound and pronounced separately, though when saying a word fast it often sounds like one sound. But that is irrelevant here. I'm honestly not sure why I brought it up.

Fortunately, the consonants in my geocaching name are all pronounced the way you would expect them to be pronounced, with the exception of one 'silent', or 'not pronounced' consonant.

In Japanese, with rare exceptions each syllable has the same stress and the same length. Since my geocaching name is not Japanese, there is no need to concern yourself with that.

The silent consonant that I referred to above is the very first letter, the 'k'. Generally, that would be prounced with a gutteral 'ka' sound, but since it is silent, you only say that in your head, just prior to pronouncing the rest. The first syllable, then, 'knows', should be pronounced as 'nows', but that is not true. English is a stranger language even than that of our possession to the north, Canada. 'nows' is actually prounced 'nose'. Strange, but get over it.

The second syllable uses the combination letters, or, 'digraph', 'ch', pronounced like 'ch'. And 'ad', pronounced something like 'add'. So, put it all together, and the pronunciation of my geocaching name is, 'NOSE CHAD'.

2.5k · July 8, 2011

Mine is fairly clear.

You'd be surprised. I suspect it's /Dee-Gee-Double yew Fow-tows/ but someone might try the DGW phonetically...

Locally, there's a couple cachers who I know people are saying wrong. One guy I just met recently is 121TechTeam. I always said (in my head) One-Tewnty-One Tech Team." After meeting him, I know it's "One to One Tech Team." Another local is mscrep. I've heard /em-skrep/, /em-ess-see-rep/ and /miz-crep/ among others. I'm pretty sure after meeting them a while back, that he told me he's a Rep for MSC, so the middle one is right, but I talked to a bunch of people that night and might be recalling incorrectly the story.

All you have to know for mine is the "H" is silent, but that's a no-brainer for most. /too-tôl-Jon/

1.7k · July 8, 2011

Whenever I see this topic I can tell who it's directed at.

For my geocaching name this may require a longish post, but I will give it a shot anyway.

First of all, the English language has just five vowels most of the time, but sometimes it also considers 'y' to be a vowel: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. But English isn't always that simple since they are not always pronounced the same way. There are long vowels and short vowels or silent vowels. I've been told that it is nothing like Italian, so I won't use it for examples

a is pronounced like a long or short a

e is pronounced like a long or short e

i is pronounced like ta long or short i

o is pronounced like the a long or short o

u is pronounced like a long or short u

English has diphthongs. When two vowels are together each retains its sound and pronounced separately, though when saying a word fast it often sounds like one sound. But that is irrelevant here. I'm honestly not sure why I brought it up.

Fortunately, the consonants in my geocaching name are all pronounced the way you would expect them to be pronounced, with the exception of one 'silent', or 'not pronounced' consonant.

In Japanese, with rare exceptions each syllable has the same stress and the same length. Since my geocaching name is not Japanese, there is no need to concern yourself with that.

The silent consonant that I referred to above is the very first letter, the 'k'. Generally, that would be prounced with a gutteral 'ka' sound, but since it is silent, you only say that in your head, just prior to pronouncing the rest. The first syllable, then, 'knows', should be pronounced as 'nows', but that is not true. English is a stranger language even than that of our possession to the north, Canada. 'nows' is actually prounced 'nose'. Strange, but get over it.

The second syllable uses the combination letters, or, 'digraph', 'ch', pronounced like 'ch'. And 'ad', pronounced something like 'add'. So, put it all together, and the pronunciation of my geocaching name is, 'NOSE CHAD'.

:laughing:

5.8k · July 8, 2011

Ours is hə-ZOY.

(That's right, baby, whipping out the "ə" schwa!)

July 8, 2011

Everyone pronounces mine as Mental Alertness which is ok with me since it rolls off the tongue a lot easier than Ellert-ness. The Ellert is normally pronounced just how it looks.. Ell-ert.

15.5k · July 8, 2011

Larry-C-zip code.
There's a cacher in NW England who has a name in similar style to yours - he's pete37038 - generally known to all as "Pete Numbers"

I know some cachers who use the telephone spelling of their names as their geocaching handles. (For example, Darin would be 32746 because D=3, A=2, etc.) In person, they just go by their real names.

July 8, 2011

side keck, not kick which is where most of the planet goes horribly wrong. That's okay, I just drop kick (not keck) them.

1.4k · July 8, 2011

Our name is misspelled because someone already took 'Fiancetto' when we signed up and I just couldn't wait any longer to join. So it should be pronounced fiancetto fee-an-chett-oh (not fee-an-sett-oh, even though that is how it would be pronounced in Italian. I think. I am thinking of starting a new account as Mrs. F or something like that just to sidestep the whole thing.)

Edited July 8, 2011 by Fianccetto

2.8k · July 8, 2011

Mine is simple enough.

M Pilch Family

but M Pilch is fine.

7.3k · July 8, 2011

Mine is fairly clear.
You'd be surprised. I suspect it's /Dee-Gee-Double yew Fow-tows/ but someone might try the DGW phonetically...

Locally, there's a couple cachers who I know people are saying wrong. One guy I just met recently is 121TechTeam. I always said (in my head) One-Tewnty-One Tech Team." After meeting him, I know it's "One to One Tech Team." Another local is mscrep. I've heard /em-skrep/, /em-ess-see-rep/ and /miz-crep/ among others. I'm pretty sure after meeting them a while back, that he told me he's a Rep for MSC, so the middle one is right, but I talked to a bunch of people that night and might be recalling incorrectly the story.

All you have to know for mine is the "H" is silent, but that's a no-brainer for most. /too-tôl-Jon/

My husband's name is like that. All41. When we first started caching, we had the name as a group name. It was a reference to our family, which had four members, and God. So it's pronounced all four one. But then a couple months later I realized how big geocaching might get for us and made separate accounts for all of us (one of the best decisions ever, didn't realize how big caching would get for us) and my husband kept all41. People will pronounce it all forty-one. He still gets teased sometimes by people who know the difference, but still pronounce it all forty-one. :rolleyes:

1.4k · July 8, 2011

"ó ɪ́ts jú" apparently! :blink:

July 8, 2011

I don't really like it when people leave no space between sword and fern. Its sword fern, not swordfern!

Ahh, who am I kidding. I really don't care.

July 8, 2011

My caching name is pronounced the-cache-seeker :grin: :laughing: Just like how it looks!

7k · July 8, 2011

"ó ɪ́ts jú" apparently!

Sounds better than /dʒuspɪg/ if you ask me

July 8, 2011

Two Jeeps Two Jacks

Two 4 Wheel drive vehicles, two hyper mostly white Jack Russell Terriers.

6.5k · July 8, 2011

wim(rhyme with swim) zee guy

It comes from our cat wimsey who was named for my wife's favorite mystery detective Lord Peter Wimsey. And I've got a bit of a whimsical sense of humor so it fits.

2.3k · July 8, 2011

Larry-C-zip code.

--Larry

There's a cacher in NW England who has a name in similar style to yours - he's pete37038 - generally known to all as "Pete Numbers"

MrsB

I started a (short-lived) trend when I signed on. At least two other new cachers in my area created accounts using some variant of name + zip code soon after I signed up. Eventually, folks realized there are much more creative ways to come up with an alias.

--Larry

2.1k · July 8, 2011

There's a local cacher whose caching name is "1101010" which is pronounced "Binary J."

3.3k · July 8, 2011

If you have ever seen a production of Shakespear's Titus Andronicus, you'v got it!

an-DRON-ih-kus

3.3k · July 8, 2011

There's a local cacher whose caching name is "1101010" which is pronounced "Binary J."

Shouldn't that be "ASCII j" (6A is lower case j in ASCII)

July 8, 2011

It's "Paternal Perch" or dad fish. :laughing:

July 8, 2011

Candy man 47. It's what I do, and the number of my favorite baseball player growing up.

1.9k · July 8, 2011

Mine is fairly clear.
You'd be surprised. I suspect it's /Dee-Gee-Double yew Fow-tows/ but someone might try the DGW phonetically...

Locally, there's a couple cachers who I know people are saying wrong. One guy I just met recently is 121TechTeam. I always said (in my head) One-Tewnty-One Tech Team." After meeting him, I know it's "One to One Tech Team." Another local is mscrep. I've heard /em-skrep/, /em-ess-see-rep/ and /miz-crep/ among others. I'm pretty sure after meeting them a while back, that he told me he's a Rep for MSC, so the middle one is right, but I talked to a bunch of people that night and might be recalling incorrectly the story.

All you have to know for mine is the "H" is silent, but that's a no-brainer for most. /too-tôl-Jon/

You have it correct.

One of the cachers in my area is known as sciuchetti (Their last name), and it's pronounced Sha-Keh-Tee.

Edited July 8, 2011 by Dgwphotos

3k · July 8, 2011

I don't really expect anybody to fumble with the Spanish pronunciation, so VP is just fine with me. And that's what everybody knows me as.

I've always pronounced it vee-AIR-oh pair-DEE-doh. And I roll the R's. Is that close? :unsure:

3k · July 8, 2011

SH-knee-va....

Seriously? Or are you just messing with us?

I thought it was "sigh-oh-NEE-vah".

3k · July 8, 2011

dfx

Hmmm - I always pronounce it "defects"

That's got too many vowels.

As does my pronunciation of your name. Which, up until now, has been "DIFF-icks"

14k · July 8, 2011

It looks like it should be pronounced En Why Pad El Cash Er but it's actually pronounced Shar-Day.

At one point a few years ago the department I work in had eight people. Five of them were named John.

3k · July 8, 2011

Buh-rey-ahn snot

You're kidding, right? It's really BRIGH-un-snat, isn't it? Rhymes with "lion cat"?

3k · July 8, 2011

So the pronunciation of my geocaching name is TO-O-ZA-I-NA-M-BO-KU.

So, it's like "toe-oh-sigh-ee-nahm-boh-koo"? :unsure:

3k · July 8, 2011

I've heard a few incorrect pronunciations. The most common mispronunciation is "NIGH-ruh-DEE".

I would have pronounced it "NEER-uh-dee".

19k · July 8, 2011

So the pronunciation of my geocaching name is TO-O-ZA-I-NA-M-BO-KU.

So, it's like "toe-oh-sigh-ee-nahm-boh-koo"?

Almost, but not quite. Try, "TOZ" (tahz)

3k · July 8, 2011

The way it's spelled

Shop nine niner, or Shop Ninety niner?

Hey - anybody remember ju66l3r?

3k · July 8, 2011

Whenever I see this topic I can tell who it's directed at.

For my geocaching name this may require a longish post, but I will give it a shot anyway.

First of all, the English language has just five vowels most of the time, but sometimes it also considers 'y' to be a vowel: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. But English isn't always that simple since they are not always pronounced the same way. There are long vowels and short vowels or silent vowels. I've been told that it is nothing like Italian, so I won't use it for examples

a is pronounced like a long or short a

e is pronounced like a long or short e

i is pronounced like ta long or short i

o is pronounced like the a long or short o

u is pronounced like a long or short u

English has diphthongs. When two vowels are together each retains its sound and pronounced separately, though when saying a word fast it often sounds like one sound. But that is irrelevant here. I'm honestly not sure why I brought it up.

Fortunately, the consonants in my geocaching name are all pronounced the way you would expect them to be pronounced, with the exception of one 'silent', or 'not pronounced' consonant.

In Japanese, with rare exceptions each syllable has the same stress and the same length. Since my geocaching name is not Japanese, there is no need to concern yourself with that.

The silent consonant that I referred to above is the very first letter, the 'k'. Generally, that would be prounced with a gutteral 'ka' sound, but since it is silent, you only say that in your head, just prior to pronouncing the rest. The first syllable, then, 'knows', should be pronounced as 'nows', but that is not true. English is a stranger language even than that of our possession to the north, Canada. 'nows' is actually prounced 'nose'. Strange, but get over it.

The second syllable uses the combination letters, or, 'digraph', 'ch', pronounced like 'ch'. And 'ad', pronounced something like 'add'. So, put it all together, and the pronunciation of my geocaching name is, 'NOSE CHAD'.

Poor toz.

3k · July 8, 2011

My husband's name is like that. All41.

That one I got right!

3k · July 9, 2011

Candy man 47. It's what I do, and the number of my favorite baseball player growing up.

Tom Glavine? :huh:

July 9, 2011

We are the Nor'east Explorahs ...

That's "Northeast Explorers" for those who don't have the native Maine (or New England) accent.

July 9, 2011

Mine is Quiltin' Nana as in a Nana (Grandma) who likes to make quilts.

1.7k · July 9, 2011

We are the Nor'east Explorahs ...

That's "Northeast Explorers" for those who don't have the native Maine (or New England) accent.

I like it.

1.7k · July 9, 2011

SH-knee-va....

Seriously? Or are you just messing with us?

I thought it was "sigh-oh-NEE-vah".

No, seriously! That's how it's pronounced!

15.5k · July 9, 2011

Hey - anybody remember ju66l3r?

No, but I remember Hen3ry (the 3 was silent, you see).

July 9, 2011

Candy man 47. It's what I do, and the number of my favorite baseball player growing up.

Tom Glavine?

Jack Morris

July 9, 2011

ambiguous

July 9, 2011

Stew-dent-cam-purr

You did ask.

July 9, 2011

SHUH-KEY-MOMO :unsure:

19k · July 9, 2011

The way it's spelled

Shop nine niner, or Shop Ninety niner?

Hey - anybody remember ju66l3r?

No. Nobody does. None of us. Sorry. Could he juggle?

By the way, another possible pronunciation for Shop99er would be "Shop niner-niner-er".

19k · July 9, 2011

ambiguous

SWEET!!! Very clever!

1.7k · July 9, 2011

Stew-dent-cam-purr

You did ask.

But how do you pronounce the space?

19k · July 9, 2011

SH-knee-va....

Seriously? Or are you just messing with us?

I thought it was "sigh-oh-NEE-vah".

No, seriously! That's how it's pronounced!

You know...

...

I've been giving this thought all day long.

And you know what? You are wrong. There is no way that Sioneva can be prounced "Shneeva". OK, I might buy into "Sheeoneva", but if you want Shneeva, you must have spelled it wrong. Sorry, but look at how its spelled. Welch or whatever... it just doesn't work like that, Sheeoneva.

1.7k · July 9, 2011

SH-knee-va....

Seriously? Or are you just messing with us?

I thought it was "sigh-oh-NEE-vah".

No, seriously! That's how it's pronounced!

You know...

...

...

I've been giving this thought all day long.

And you know what? You are wrong. There is no way that Sioneva can be prounced "Shneeva". OK, I might buy into "Sheeoneva", but if you want Shneeva, you must have spelled it wrong. Sorry, but look at how its spelled. Welch or whatever... it just doesn't work like that, Sheeoneva.

Okay, you are off the guest list! And I'm writing you out of my will!

It's a slightly slurred derivative of the Welsh Sion... And there's no Sheeeeee here you go.

How is your geocaching name pronounced?

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