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Why can no one pronounce this name, again?
@chalcedony to my shame as a geologist it never occurred to me to look up the official spelling...
... partially because everyone I asked pronounced it differently.
@chalcedony Yeeeeees, offical pronunciation. I should sleep.
Don't worry you're too adorable to subconsciously avoid. (Another sign I should sleep.)
@icefox ◾ I mean that's why we accept multiple variants of it. (You mean “official pronunciation”?) Heck, like Illum was saying, we used one of the other variants before too.
But most people we've encountered don't produce _any_ recognizable variant of it on first reading/hearing. They produce “cl—kl—cha—gh—??? *awkward face*” and it's like “is this going to lead to us being someone who gets slightly subconsciously avoided because saying our name is impossible or”