How do you pronounce your username?

[Cruciferi]

Stefani is more elegant

 

[StephieNorthCo]

Ain’t gonna touch that one.

 

[Cruciferi]

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[humbleseeker]

I’m afraid mine is often pronounced with an eye roll afterward

 

[Greenfields]

Pronunciation:

Crue•sif•erie

Yes but Which kind of American accent?Ive contorted my face trying to say it in a Texan,Boston,Deep South accent…

 

[Nelka]

Nelka pronounced like Nelka.

 

[tad]

Mine is pretty simple. Three letters, one syllable, rhymes with bad, mad and cad.

 

[Cruciferi]

Neutral Midwestern English

 

[TheLittleLady]

you (rhymes with “two”) + r Yoo-sir-naam

Could not resist

 

[Beryllos]

I pronounce it like bear-ILL-ose (capitalization indicating emphasis, and the s is unvoiced, s and not z).

I am not Greek, but the name is from the Greek, in which it sounds roughly like BAY-rule-ose. Somebody even made a YouTube video for it:

 

[Greenfields]

Happy birthday (for tomorrow?) Berral loose

 

[lilypadrees]

Stefani is more elegant

Makes me think of Gwen Stefani. (Don’t get me started… )

 

[Irishmom2]

What syllable is the accent on?

 

[StephieNorthCo]

Easy one… erie!

 

[lilypadrees]

lilypadrees

lily pad rees (just like it sounds)

 

[UpUpAndAway]

But most people just call me Up.

 

[Cruciferi]

Up up and Away in my beautiful my beautiful balloon

 

[StephieNorthCo]

Wasn’t sure the up, up, and away was Superman

-or–

 

[Greenfields]

Ouch…!

 

[Milt]

Milt short for Uncle Milty, which is a nickname I ended up with at around age 5 when an uncle of mine thought I did something like “Uncle Milty aka Milton Berle” did on tv. The name stuck to the point that people actually thought it was my real name.