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pronounced somewhere between "Owen" and the "oan" sound in "moan". I can barely pronounce it myself...

I pronounced it ee-ou-een.

I already knew this name, having been a fan of the author Eoin Colfer for a long time.     Gaelic is also on my list of languages I want to learn, along with Swahili and French (I am already learning Japanese).
I did get Ichtms's name wrong, though- I pronounced it "Ick-tims". ^_^;

Mine always confuses people.  They usually say "Loo-eye La-shy-er".  It is actually "Loo-eye La-shee-ray".  Some people also can't figure out the "Luai" part, but that's less common.
It comes from a language I was inventing a long time ago.  I stopped working on it because I got frustrated with my own inability to be innovative with sounds and grammar- so I've put it off until after I take a linguistics class, sometime in college.
Even if it ends up not being part of that language eventually, it's become so entwined with my identity that I know I won't stop using it.  It's almost more my name than my real name is.

STOP IT!!!!!

It's 3am and I'm trying to wind down enough to sleep (AFFing about and packing books) and I read THAT!!!

I practically strangled myself trying not to wake the street.

No good, can't hold it in any longer....

Waahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahhaahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!

Woohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoo!!!!!!!

ROTFLMEFAO*!!!!!

(*The 'e' is for exhausted, not extremely )

Tigger_the_Wing Wrote:

STOP IT!!!!!

It's 3am and I'm trying to wind down enough to sleep (AFFing about and packing books) and I read THAT!!!

I practically strangled myself trying not to wake the street.

No good, can't hold it in any longer....

Waahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahhaahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!

Woohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoo!!!!!!!

ROTFLMEFAO*!!!!!

(*The 'e' is for exhausted, not extremely )

...And how do you pronounce that? *grins*

Ask your missus!

It means "Heart Sings" (I was only twelve when I chose it, I know it's sappy.  *blush*).  Apparently Luai has some other meaning in Hawaiian, but I don't know what it is.



....  Off topic for a moment, I would like to mention that if you never hear from me again it is because I became so deeply engrossed in playing with the thingy in EvilZakkie's signature that I don't have time to post anything.  (what is it, anyway?)

you're supposed to ignore the 248, it's silent too.

I wanted just SoccerFreak, but it wouldn't let me... like there was a SoccerFreak previous to me or something.

Puck is a more recent variant of the old Welsh trickster faerie, called the pwka (also spelled puca, pookah, phooka, etc), pronounced "pooh-kah".  The pwka was known to be a dangerous trickster and shapeshifter; one of its more common tricks was to become a goat or horse and trick someone into getting on its back, whereupon it would take them on 'the ride of their lives'; if they were lucky, it would drop them somewhere miles from nowhere, uninjured, and if they were not lucky, they would never been seen nor heard from ever again.  The pwka also commonly took the form of a rabbit, and sometimes a sexy man (which would frequently lure young women to their deaths).  Farmers used to leave out a portion of their harvest for the pwka to appease it, for fear that it would ruin their crops if they did not.

Faerie lore is one of my oldest and most abiding interests.
(also, Pwka is my pet name for my boyfriend.  *blush* )