others over that side of the pond - pronounce the second syllable of my name as, "man" - whereas I always say, "mahn" in that context.

D'you mean to say that you pronounce commando as
"common-dough" (accent on the mon, presumably)?
Infantry, then?
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Hey! Max, I just looked up avatar--I am NOT Anu's avatar!!
On this board or anywhere.

But if I were Hindi, he might be mine:
"In the Hindu religion, an avatar is an incarnation of a deity; hence, an embodiment or manifestation of an idea or greater reality."

Now: you thought I couldn't rhyme Quordlepleen?? Hah! Belly up to the bar, boy, and lemme show you somethin'.

Talk of avatars and gods
Dragons, posters, and AWAD's;
Language lives forever; won't it?
But dirt gets in, depend upon it.
How the mighty Quordlepleen
Helps to keep th'immortal clean.