So how is "jwgh" pronounced, anyway?

People who know me primarily from newsgroups or other online media tend to ask me this eventually. The short answer is: Any way you want.

That's not very satisfactory, though, so here is an official list of approved pronunciations.

• It's pronounced phonetically. This was the answer I favored when I was a smart-aleck college student.
• yoof. This was favored by a group of my friends in college.

  

• joof. A less popular variant of "yoof".
• yǝff -- likewise a variant on "yoof".
• joo-GAH.
• jah-GAH. These are more recent pronunciations, but none the worse for that.
• A correspondent suggests that it is pronounced "". That's j as in Meijer, w as in wreck, g as in gnaw, and h as in rhythm.
• Some Kibologists have asked if "jwgh" is pronounced Jehovah or similar. The answer: Sure, if you want, though I would prefer not to be called this in, say, a church.
• Jawooghu.
• Jerwuggy. These two are self-explanitory, I think.
• Jay Doubleyou Gee Aitch. The literalist approach.
• A correspondent writes:

  i was mentally calling your name something like ジュワー.
  something like the sound of sparkling soda or beer when they were poured into the glass.

  I think that this might be transliterated as something like juwaa.

That's all I have so far. If anyone has any other suggestions on how "jwgh" should be pronounced, feel free to let me know.

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