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Randian Rebus: How to Pronounce Ayn Rand's Name

Finally! An accurate representation of the pronunciation of Ayn Rand.  Somebody had to do it, and as every good reader of Rand knows: The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me; so I did it, and I didn't ask permission to do it. I had no intention of creating a graphic design for Ayn Rand's birthday (2/2/1905), but I managed to do it subconsciously. The idea for this rebus popped into my head a couple nights ago the way lots of my ideas do, while trying to fall asleep. When I was able to create it the following night I was ecstatic with the results. What do you think? For those who don't know, Ayn is not pronounced 'Anne', like Anne of Green Gables .  Rather, Ayn is pronounced with a long i sound, like the eye of the tiger, or like the 'I' when speaking in the first person.  But I couldn't use just the letter i because 'IN' capitalized is an uppercase 'in', and how would anyone know to pronou