I'm sick of my friends son calling me James ex-you-anne, so now I'm asking how do you pronounce my surname. I'll tell you the correct way in a few days or if someone gets it right.
Have fun! :-)

BTW Remember I'm Japanese if that helps :)

James Zuan perhaps?

Or maybe Xu-an? (like ksu-an)

James 'Zwan' ??

One syllable Sh-an. ("Sh" as in as in shy, "an" just an)

Yu-wan ?

Huan / Wuan

I've always presumed it was produced Zuan/Zwan

Here's my take.
http://googlified.com/files/temp/xuan.wav

James g'zû-ann

My, we do seem to be having fun. Those who said "Zuan" may be correct though I would like you to expand on that. is "Zuan" pronounces

*Zune/Zoon
*Zoo-anne Like sua-anne
*Zwan/Zwanne Like Swan or Anne with a z
*Zoo-an

Tom, I have no idea how to pronounce g'zû-ann

So i won?
A new iPhone would be a great present :P

Am I close? (listen to the .wav file)

Yawn :-()

It's pronounced like Zune but with a barely noticeable i, so it's like Zooin

I *hate* speak. So this is the first time and maybe the last time you hear my voice.
http://www.zshare.net/audio/3404028f7b3f87/
Sorry James.

I'm at work so no speakers. I listen when i get home

Ultimately, how good I was to pronounce your name?

Almost perfectly

Hé hé, I had to repeat your name about 15 times before take the good one :)
Once I heard Matt Cutts pronounce my pseudonym, it was strange because I doesn't sounds the same at all in French lol

You're French accent rocks!

:-)

I'd like to hear how do you pronounce Haochi's (first & last) name too. Or Ionut's ;-)
IMHO, the easier name to pronounce here is Martin Porcheron, at least for a Frenchman :-)

OK I think it's my time to embarass me now :)

http://blogoscoped.com/files/names.wav
TomHTML, Ionut Alex. Chitu, James Xuan, Tony Ruscoe. I tried to pronounce your name French Tom :)

Oops, I pronounced Ionut's name half English. Oh well.

Oh, my. That's pretty bad, at least for my name. A proper way to write my name to pronounce it in English would be: Io-nootz Alex Kee-tzu.

Even french don't pronounce my name well... I didn't even know if TOMHTML knows how to pronounce it!

If you want to try : my name is Jérémy Milhau...

Wowee Philipp your voice is not how I imagined! I also hat speaking but here are some; i will say more is you want.

Luka + Me: http://www.zshare.net/download/3472131e5bb710/
Tom: http://www.zshare.net/download/34721821f10a42/
Philipp: http://www.zshare.net/download/34721759f0ec47/
Ionut: http://www.zshare.net/download/3472167048211d/
Martin: http://www.zshare.net/download/347215320f43aa/
Tony: http://www.zshare.net/download/34721930a0fa8b/

i don't hear enything at you files, james.

OK, here's the objective automated speech :)

<<Io-nootz Alex Kee-tzu. Ionut Alex. Chitu. TomHTML. James Xuan. Tony Ruscoe. DPic. Brinke Guthrie. Suresh. David Hetfield>>

http://blogoscoped.com/files/textaloud-names.mp3

Well, Philipp pronounced my name very well :)
Unfortunately I can't hear your files James.

My built-in microphone of my laptop sucks, so I'm gonna find a real microphone and then I will destroy your names with my Northern French accent.

Hmmm... I believe my mic isn't working. AAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!! I'll try again, BTW isn't it weird that XP sound recorder saved as wavs but vista as wma's?

BTW you should send the files to http://zshare.net/

I'll get round to this shortly, I can't find my headset so I'll probably end up using my laptop mic.

I tried another mic and it didn't work either. maybe its because I set realplayer as default player YDay?

Sorry in advance,
Philipp and Mambo
James and Tony
DPic and David
/pd and Suresh
Colin and Luka
Martin and Haochi
Brinke and Ionut

http://www.zshare.net/audio/34748956e98b59/

Shame on me and my French accent. Usually I spend more to read English than listen English or even speak in English....
If you don't understand, I have the script :-P

Well, everyone's getting mine right. There are just some tiny accent variations but it's being pronounced correctly! :-)

Yeah, me too :D

Don't reacon it's that hard to say my name (Martin Rix)
But when I say my last name I've seen people spell it a variety of ways :D

Good try Tom, you are getting there, it's just that my name is not really pronounced the way it's spelled. :) The "a" is silent so that would be Ho-chi (or How-chi) and here's the official pronunciation of my name: http://ihaochi.com/files/haochi-chen.mp3

We should create a directory or something.

Yay! I'm famous according to tom! If i was gay and you were too I would kiss you Tom! ;-)

Ok, I got my mic working with StepVoice Recorder so here is my try:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/3476538b80ad18/

Sorry if I get any wrong. I will pronounce others upon request

Thank you people, I will go to bed less stupid than when I woke up this morning :P

Mrrix : thanks to your message, I've just understood what mean your pseudonym lol

Haochi : I have discovering someting! So, you have to know that your name sounds like "Chechen" :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechen_people

James : Lol you pronouce my name very French! One word: "wow".
For my sound, know that I had to record this file about 10 times, cause of the guy/gay and Ionut's name. You know I live in a part of France where inhabitants have a strong accent, we don't speak French very well so English...

This thread is really fun. The next time, I'll try to pronounce the name of this website! :)

Yes how do we pronounce Blogoscoped ? Zorgloob ? Google ? ^^

James Xuan : You pronounce very well French letters in TOMHTML! For Jérémy, you did very well, but you pronounced Milhau as a lot of french do (not well!).

Even in our team, nobody knows how to pronounce Zorgloob ;-)

James, you got my name exactly right...

TomHTML : I wouldn't be too shore about that, the M and the R at the start are meant to be my first initials and not Mister :D
(Doesn't matter tho as most of my friends say "Mister Rix 32" when they talk about my email address)

Tom,
I am currently taking French lessons down the street as I love your language and people and culture (and food!)

Philipp
I was not sure whether it was Fill-ip or Fill-eep but i just chose which one I thought it was and I was lucky ;-)

Hey, I want to play this game too!
It was a nice idea to upload audio files :)

Here is my try:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/34784330684061/

My nickname (Zim) it's easy to say, but I'd like to hear new versions.
(My real name is Enrico, but I preffer to be called as Zim)

Update: Tom, reading your blog I found what does Zorgloob mean :)

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Round 2 for Xuan: http://www.zshare.net/audio/347872015bbf1f/
BTW Zim how did you put "destroying beautiful names" in? ID3 Tag?

Nice!
Yes, I modified the ID3 tag. I recorded myself with Audacity (freeware), and when you're going to save, you have the option to modify the ID3 tag. :)

Great! I'll get it now. Thanks Zim

Here is mine, sorry for my accent and mistakes in advance.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/3479075f903bd5/

(I feel strange talking alone in front of my computer screen...)

I know how you feel Luka! I got some weird looks in the café talking to my laptop!!!

Know what? I had to announce to my whole family I was going to record something, because my little brother and sister are noise generators. It's not the first time I record in front of my computer. It's worst when you want to sign... and without music (because you are following the melody through headphones)
I made two songs with my guitar and uploaded to my blog some time ago (links available on request – think twice if you think you want to hear it)

Luka: I admire the french accent

How about for round 3 (and this is completely random) we have to make a radio jingle for blogoscoped? http://www.zshare.net/audio/34795489493de6/ this is mine but BEWARE!!! I can't sing so I go into this tuneless warbling falsetto, but you'll get the idea.

Congrats on the icon Luka!!!

What is your blog's address zim?

Wahou! I got my favorite Z as icon! Thank you James Xuan, Thank you Philipp.

Zim : Tommorow I will record how a french guy would have readen your names with typical French reading. I hope you'll enjoy. Tomhtml should do the same for you to compare French accent from south and north.

James Xuan: My blog is http://gomobile.com.ar/ It's in spanish.
The covers are here
http://www.irken.com.ar/gomobile/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/zim-contagious.mp3 (Granian – Contagious)
and here
http://www.irken.com.ar/gomobile/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/zim-one-of-us.mp3 (Joan Osborne – One Of Us; my fav)
DISCLAIMER: Each song is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind. Damage on hardware, software, brain or any other thing is not my fault. You are warned.

Luka: Nice! We are being many Zs around here! First came TomHTML, some days ago me (thanks Philipp!) and now you :)
The almighty Z!

Zim : you pronounce "Blogoscoped" just as me! :-P
Mrrix : yes I thought it was "Mister Rix" ;-)

BTW Luka is my colleague and it's the first time I hear his voice ;-)

I'm going to record my third round too ;-) but just as you, I feel stupid speaking alone in front of my computer and my family in the next room :-S

I just realized that I'm unable to pronounce "search engine" correctly :-/

http://www.zshare.net/audio/3484891e245554/
featured : Google, Google Blogoscoped, Zorgloob, Haochi, Googlified.com, Martin, Ionut and Zim.

You guys sleep at all :o)

Nope! We're nocturnal! You get that from being addicted to Blogoscoped after a while

Since I'm now living in Canada, nocturnal have not the same signification for you and me!

Yeah, you are 5/6 hours behind?

Yes – 6 hours in comparaison of Western Europe (France, Spain, Italy,...). It is about 12:00 now. Bon appétit!

what a nice game going around here!

Sankar, for you I made a Limited Edition Tri-Pronounciation http://www.zshare.net/audio/3491743315e19d/

HAH!! Nice jingle James.

Errmmm... You're deaf Philipp?

Sorry, I've been busy through this last days and I couldn't read so much (nor listening)

TomHTML: I like the way my name + surname sounds with french accent! And you pronounced well the "zim" in spanish :)

James: That tri-pronunciation was like a ghost movie! O_O

The Exorcist!

I demand closure of this thread!! :-D

Get the spotlight off James this instant!! lol

NOOOOOO!!!!! I'm an attention seeker and I'm depressed,I have serious issues! Close this thread and I'll kill myself! (seriously)

Yes yes yes close! :-P

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Lol a hangman game :) It makes me think to one thing I have just watched at TV, a call TV show :
"Find the name of this great singer and win 10'000 euros:
ELV_S PRESL_Y"
so hard ;)

Is it Bono?

He's Alive!

I am, same as your self FatherTed.S03.E1.

After realising I could use my phone as a microphone I decided to have a go at butchering... err I mean saying the names of the Top 20 Members (I skipped one though)
http://www.zshare.net/audio/357491666a198e/

I *may* try other names (people who have posted here) later