Welcome! I am so excited for you. Some people do like to pronounce it the way you say. There is kind of a funny story about it. I actually started that one and I had never considered that pronunciation. It was sort of the saying that stuck and went from person to person. It's actually kind of funny I thought I was talking to Julie (the editor for HOD and Carrie's sister) on another board but it was not her at all, it was someone else with her log in here

and she did not know what I was talking about so I said to her something about how we both are HODies (meaning belonging to HOD at the time of course

) to try to get her to understand my point thinking of course it was Julie I was chatting with and as you can imagine the person had no idea what I meant.

And from there it kind of stuck. I am glad something good came out of it in my mind we are all H(long O)Dies and I never considered the other interpretation but I am pretty sure the other person since they did not know I was talking about HOD

did, hahaha! And I think a lot of the ladies here like that pronunciation.

But it is whatever floats you boat, you pronounce it however you want

and Welcome Official HODie. You are going to love it! And congratulations for starting out with it. That is so wonderful!
