What's in a name?

[greyias]

Uh oh... I just got a Dreamwidth invite code (yay for the lottery!), but I'm faced with a new dilemma. The user name "grey" is still open at Dreamwidth. Do I become a bland color, or keep my strange and unique, but probably confusing to pronounce "greyias"?

[Poll #1385367]

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[michelel72.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. My pronunciation has always been "GREY-ee-us ... grey-EYE-us? ... well, anyway, Grey ..." Which is a bit polysyllabic. Then again, it wasn't until Hermione mocked Viktor's pronunciation of her name (in, like, HP book four) that I learned I was mispronouncing it mentally, so there you go. Mental pronunciation remapping, commence!

[greyias.livejournal.com]

The 'i' is the evil francophone in me, trying to keep the proletariat down by throwing strange letters in where they seemingly don't belong.

And Hermione... yeah, it wasn't until the movies came out that I realized it was "Her-my-nee" and not "Herm-ee-ohn". Whooops.