Afraid To Ask Andy

"Meam" as in "mean". Although I could be wrong as plenty disagreed with my pronunciation of "doge" (doj like dojo without the o). Lets see what others come up with...

The word "meme" was borrowed from Richard Dawkins' concept of "a unit of cultural transmission" in his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene. In that book, he specified that it should rhyme with "cream," and presumably since we've hijacked the term from him we would adopt his pronunciation as well. :)

A quote from the book:

"We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. ‘Mimeme’ comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like ‘gene’. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to ‘memory’, or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with ‘cream’."

My Dad calls them me-me, I guess it's just him messing with me.

I had my daughter calling her brother do-do head for weeks, we like to mess :)