Tell me how badly I mangled your name!

[pne]

This poll concerns the voice post in this entry, in which I say the usernames of the people on my Mutual Friends list.

[Poll #1017534]

Comments

[nyssa.livejournal.com]

You did pretty well with my name. :D Usually, the first syllable is the accented one, whereas it sounded like you accented the second, but that's probably the least minor mispronunciation of my name ever (trust me, I get some interesting ones). I gave you a nine.

Also, to elaborate on my comment: I'm assuming your username is taken from 'Philip Newton', your whole name, yes? So, following the pronunciation of that, it should be pronounced the same. Except when I see your username, I don't pronounce it that way because it sounds funny. I chose instead to pronounce it 'pnay'. Because that's prettier. :)

[pne.livejournal.com]

Usually, the first syllable is the accented one, whereas it sounded like you accented the second

Oops. I thought I was accenting the first, FWIW.

I'm assuming your username is taken from 'Philip Newton', your whole name, yes?

Yes.

At work, we had (have) usernames that are usually three letters long (occasionally two), and "first letter of given name + first two letters of family name" is the standard pattern as long as the resulting abbreviation isn't already in use.

So, following the pronunciation of that, it should be pronounced the same

Like "Fnoo"?

Except when I see your username, I don't pronounce it that way because it sounds funny. I chose instead to pronounce it 'pnay'. Because that's prettier. :)

Which is close to how I sometimes pronounce it in German!

[nyssa.livejournal.com]

Nah, more like p-knee? But that didn't sound so great to me, so I switched to "pnay".