5. WORD ♥ I used to know someone who did that, but it was because she'd never change her tone no matter who she was writing.

11. You sure that's the one, true, way of pronouncing it...? I was told quite a few times that it was "yow-ee". It made sense to me at the time, because isn't ao pronounced like "ow" in Japanese?

Eh, well, whatever. Could be worse; I've heard people saying "yay-oh".