 Hi guys, I've picked a topic for my next video, and no, I'm not telling you what it is, but before that, I have a question. How do you pronounce this word? This isn't a rhetorical question, I genuinely have no idea. Well, okay, I have no idea how to pronounce this word in English. Uh, okay, let me back up. I originally came up with this word back when I was in 8th grade, and I was a little bit obsessed with a language called lojban. I'll probably be doing a whole video on lojban at some point, but for now, all you need to know is that proper nouns in lojban always have to begin and end in consonants, but my name in meat space both begins and ends in a vowel. So I came up with this thing to be my lojban name. How I came up with it exactly is a bit of a long story. It doesn't mean anything in any language, but it has some interesting phonetic properties, and it relates to my meat space name in a cool way. Anyway, in lojban, it is pronounced hidnaf, with a velar fricative at the beginning. In one of my first videos, I call myself hidnaf at the beginning, but since then I've kind of realized that all my videos are in English, and all the titles are in English, and all the comments are... okay, most of the comments are in English. So this is basically an English language channel, and therefore the channel's name should probably have a standard pronunciation in English that only uses English sounds. Now, there's only one good option for how to pronounce the letter x at the beginning, and that's as a zz sound. Most English words that begin with a letter x are pronounced with a zz sound at the beginning, and besides, the only other options are like exidnaf, or cidnaf. But besides that, there's actually a few different ways the vowels could be pronounced. By my account, there's three different ways each vowel could be pronounced. The letter i could be pronounced i as in kind, i as in slip, or i as in steel. While the letter a could be pronounced a as in stab, a as in table, or a as in fall. This leaves nine different possible pronunciations. Zidnaf, zidnaf, zidnaf, zidnaf, zidnaf, zidnaf, zidnaf, zidnaf, and zidnaf. Now I could just pick one of these pronunciations and make it official, but I really don't care either way, and most of you probably already pronounce it a certain way in your head, and I really don't want to end up fighting my fans about what my name is. I'm excited to just let you guys vote on it. Let me know in the comments which one of these ways you say it, or, alternatively, which one you think sounds coolest. Try to write them the way I write them here so that I know what you're talking about, and don't vote by voting on someone else's comment. Write your own. It'll make it easier to count. If there's a pronunciation I forgot, just explain it to me in your comment. Voting ends exactly one week after I post this video, at 3am, Wednesday, June 11th, 2014. After that, I'll count up the votes and let you guys know which pronunciation won, so I'll see you then.