Zebrify or Zebrafy?

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Which one sounds better?

Zebrify
90
59%
Zebrafy
62
41%
 
Total votes: 152

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Urs wrote:Zebrify... Zebrafy... hmmm...
It's Zebrafy. Of course, folks are free to pronounce it Zebrify. Also instead of Zebrafy you could write it Zebra-fy. You're free to do stuff like that if it's for an ad.

"Frankly, I don't know what a zebrus is. So finding a whole bunch of zebri would be very difficult for me."

"I just had my daily dose of my favorite synth (or my favorite striped animal). I'm Zebrafied (or zebrafied)."

"Too bad the safety precautions in the lab lapsed. He cultured some zebri in a petri dish, and as he was sequencing the genome of a single zebrus, his elbow knocked the petri dish to the floor. It shattered and a shard stuck him in the ankle. He died instantly from a zebri infection. Most lethal microorganisms on the planet. Because rigor mortis set in so quickly, the report said that he was 'zebrified'."
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I just had my daily dose of my favorite synth, and I'm quite sure I'm Zebrified ;)

Zebrate would be my pick for the name, though. This form associates nicely with the act of zebrafying/zebrifying, and it's also at home with words like "vibrate" and "resonate". On the other hand it sounds like a substance category ("nitrate", "sulphate", "acetate"...)

Zebrate me, baby.

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Thing is, if referring to the synth Zebra, it's best to keep the brand name intact. That way visual or sonic impact would not be lost. Using Zebri-fy certainly can be used, but total impact is weaker than otherwise, as the spelling of the brand name is partially lost and obscured by a new sonic element that may provoke unintended associations and distractions.

Personally, I wouldn't use the verb "Zebrafy". I would write the statement so that I could use the verb or adjective "Zebrafied". Visually and sonically it is stronger than the former, and it also functions better with reference to the synth Zebra2.
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