Quieth, Qeith, Qeuth, Queef. The list goes on. There is no shortage of ways people try to write my name, and fail miserably at it. I watch the hits I get from Google searches, and I am mortified by the amounts of hits I get from Queith. I mean sure, there is a fair amount of searches on “Qieth” but that doesn’t make it right.
I know, I know, it is difficult to make out just what kind of name it is. People have pointed out to me that there are no words in English that has a Q not followed by a U (quit, quiz, Quasimodo). Even my guildies, who has known me for a long time, and know how to pronounce the name, can get it wrong.
I came up with the name Qieth back when I played Anarchy Online. I somewhat like the sound of the name Keith, so I figured turning the K into a Q was a good idea. Unfortunately, I mixed up the E and the I. It’s not Kieth, after all. The character from Anarchy Online was never one I was very active on, but the name stuck with me ever since.
Back then, my most common screen name was Helios, a name that usually gets taken on any popular service, being the God of the Sun and all. I would be Helios whereever I could, and Qieth was reserved for “secret profiles”, stuff I didn’t want people to find me on. You get the idea. When I ditched Helios, however, I had gotten pretty used to Qieth, and when my druid was made, the choice landed on that.
It’s a tricky name, I get that. If anything, it should have been Qeith. But i can’t change it now. Qeith looks weird to ne. It’s not right. Besides, I am so connected to the name; Its my mains name, part of my blogs title, and it is a name that people, for some reason, remember and google once in a while. I can’t go changing my domain, my blog, my main and a million users across the Internet now. I’m caught. We will simply have to live with it.
My real name is, in fact, Dan, plain and simple. I was toying with the idea of changing my real name to Keith, but that would probably complicate things more. If you ever need to speak my name, when you talk about my blog with your friends (;)), just think of Keith. Not Quieth. Not Qeth. Definitely not Queef!
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