[Raion]

My username comes from raion, a soviet-era administrative district pronounced rye-on, ultimately from french AFAIK. I did this name because of an art film I saw called Desniansky Raion by Cyprien Gaillard. The word in that pronunciation has origins in Croatian and Ukranian.

The old references to foxes in my old userids is because the fox is the animal my Chinese name contains: 孟兆狐/Mèng zhào hú 

For those who don't understand Chinese, the IPA is /mə̀ŋ ʂàu xʷú/ or roughly, for Americans, "muhng jow who?" (the question mark is because you're supposed to rise your tone as you say who, as you would in English)

Definition: Meng is a surname related to Mengzi/Mencius, a Chinese philosopher. I like his name, as Kuroi translates to "Hei" in Chinese, which is pronounced like "hay" and not very nice sounding. Zhaohu literally means "millions of foxes" and refers to a story I wrote in high school. 

Not very clever, but it gets you the idea of this thread, I guess?