Why can no one pronounce this name, again?
Kal-see-doe-nee? :-)
@emanate Or all six I guess if you count that last vowel distinction. But what people mostly do is Instant Confound. :-(
@chalcedony @emanate If I'm reading the symbols right I've been using the 3rd one internally. ^^'
That's good to know though, correcting now.
@KawaSeadrake @emanate ◽ Hee. 💜 The original was kind of a playful gripe, not a Serious Thing, just since the tone might not've been clear.
The fun part is that the same confound happens whether people encounter it written, spoken, or both at the same time. o..o
◾ We've half-joked that it just seems to be a general curse on our whole line that we inevitably pick names no one can spell or pronounce, even when notionally trying not to. c..c
@emanate https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chalcedony
We actually _accept_ all four pronunciations, though the first is canonical. (For a brief period early on we used the fourth and opposite one, with soft ch and 1&3 stress, but we normalized to M-W's preference after that.)