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as Canucks we say Zed rather than Zee.
(well that's part of it. The other reason that I don't intend to admit to is that as a nerdy kid - geeks had not been invented yet - I had an adventurous, imaginary other-self similar to Calvin's Spaceman Spiff. Mine was named Zedael just because I liked the way it sounded. But like I said, I don't tell people about that so Shhhhh.)
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for a game played on long car trips when my kids were young..
"what would your vanity plate be?" (most states require 7 or fewer letters/numbers).
when i first got a home email account in the 1980's, my first email wad from my son who had written a bit of code searching for of troy as an email name, and had found my email before i told him the address. he felt certain i would take of troy as an email name. (and i did)
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I initially took Zmjezhd to be some inflected form of the Russian Змей, dragon, serpent.
The simple explanation for Faldage is that is the right of the lord of the manor to have his tenants pasture their sheep where he tells them to, the purpose being to fertilize the ground with the sheep droppings. That, however, has little to do with why I chose it. It was a name I used before I ever dreamed of having a screen name.
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But how do you pronounce tswum? Or tsuwwftdm?
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tsuwm himself has other ideas about the matter but I've always ponounced it just the way it's spelled, tsuwm.
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I've always ponounced it just the way it's spelled
Me, I've always pronounced it to rhyme with voom, i.e., the sound a Norwegian Blue makes after he's nuzzled up to those bars and bent 'em apart with his beak.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I got this nickname from the title of a book by L. Sprague DeCamp. It's not high literature. It's pretty trashy, in fact, but I was instantly enamoured with the main character, Zdim, from the first time I read the book more than 25 years ago. In fact, my nickname back in those days was zdim, and people who talked to me back in the earlier days of the Internet would have spoken to me as that alias.
The book is about this reptilian creature from the twelfth dimension who gets brought to our reality by a magician. He's a creature of pure logic who has a few adventures while trying to carry out the instructions given to him by his foolish and evil master.
Also it hints at philosophical and personal fallibilism.
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I've always ponounced it just the way it's spelled
Me, I've always pronounced it to rhyme with voom, i.e., the sound a Norwegian Blue makes after he's nuzzled up to those bars and bent 'em apart with his beak. lovely plumage, the Norwegian Blue.
formerly known as etaoin...
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"VOOM"?!? Mate, this bird wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts through it! 'E's bleedin' demised!
it's 'SUE-əm, sorta rhyming with voom in a schwad way, and the T as in tsar or tsunami.
-joe ('E's pining!) friday
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and the T as in tsar or tsunami
So, if you pronounce the ts in those words, it's okay in your moniker, right?
- The Man (Midge) Who Was Thursday
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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