Whats in a name?

As I rp with people I pronounce their names in my head but I have found , that its not always how THEY pronounce their name. I also wonder where people came up with their name....

So those are my questions, how do you pronounce your name phonetically and how did you come up with it?

I will start, I know a lot of people think that my name is pronoucned Marie , but it is actually Gaelic and the pronuciation is Mo ya .

I picked it after one of my favorite Gaelic singers, Maire Brennan.

Oh fun, I had no idea that was how you pronounce it.

I've always pronounced Amarra with all soft ah sounds. Ah-MAHR-ah

@Maire: Gaelic... that makes a lot of sense, perhaps had I know I wouldn't have misspelled it. lol
@Amrra: I knew it! It's nice to know I can still read. o.O...

Mine is a bit odd... I have a habbit of taking perfectly good names or words and changing the letters yet still expecting the sounds to remain semi- in tact. Obviously I am fond of Ys, Xs, Zs, and most of the unused letters of the alphabet.

Michael = Mychael pronounced either (Mi' KAI-el) or (My' KAI-el) Another for of my own middle name which incidentally one would be saying if you pronounced his name wrong, Mitchell. Comes from Hebrew meaning "Who is Like God?" also the name of an archangel.

Nekhronyz = (Neck-row-n-[is] as in the word denoting being [i.e. He is.]) It is a conflagration of two words and a sound lol. Necro, obviously due to his occupation. Khronos, denoting his long life. And N'[is] (see above), simply so I could use Y and Z together and to make his name sound more foreign considering he comes from a different plane of existence.

Phrozt = Frost, obviously, I took this after Robert Frost who wrote one of my favorite poems, Road Not Taken. I also wanted a simple family name for him due to his humble upbringing by a concubine and a infantry solider.

Mine is simple, just like the character!

Art-ee-mus.

Morningstar is spelt Morningstar, but its pronounced "Throat-wobbler-mangrove"



No, it isn't really. it's just Morning, like the start of the day what is before Afternoon, and Star what is them twinkling things.

OOC, I came up with the name of Artimus, because I thought it sounded quite medieval and guardish. For a while he was simply known as "Artimus the Guard", but once he started to become a character in his own right (and liked by some people!), I decided he needed a surname, and said so in the chatroom one day. Several people chipped in ideas, and I forget exactly who it was who came up with Morningstar (I think Amarra came up Farstrider, which of course went to the Terrible Trio of Tiberious, Mac and Louis), but I owe someone thanks for helping name him