Editing Dr. Seuss (section)

==Pen names==
Geisel's most famous pen name is regularly pronounced {{IPAc-en|s|uː|s}},<ref name="DICT" /> an [[Anglicisation|anglicized]] pronunciation of his German name (the standard German pronunciation is {{IPA|de|ˈzɔʏ̯s}}). He himself noted that it rhymed with "voice" (his own pronunciation being {{IPAc-en|s|ɔɪ|s}}). Alexander Laing, one of his collaborators on the ''[[Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://now.dartmouth.edu/2010/06/and-think-it-happened-dartmouth|title=And to Think That It Happened at Dartmouth|website=now.dartmouth.edu|year=2010|access-date=May 12, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412195551/http://now.dartmouth.edu/2010/06/and-think-it-happened-dartmouth|archive-date=April 12, 2016}}</ref> wrote of it:

{{poemquote|You're wrong as the deuce
And you shouldn't rejoice
If you're calling him Seuss.
He pronounces it Soice<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.anapsid.org/aboutmk/seuss.html |title=Theodor Seuss Geisel: Author Study |last=Kaplan |first=Melissa |work=anapsid.org |date=December 18, 2009 |access-date=December 2, 2011}} ([http://www.anapsid.org/pdf/seuss.pdf Source in PDF].)</ref> (or Zoice)<ref>{{cite web|title=About the Author, Dr. Seuss, Seussville|url=http://www.seussville.com/?home#/author|location=Biography|access-date=February 15, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206085230/http://www.seussville.com/?home#/author|archive-date=December 6, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>}}

Geisel switched to the anglicized pronunciation because it "evoked a figure advantageous for an author of children's books to be associated with—[[Mother Goose]]"<ref name="new yorker 2002" /> and because most people used this pronunciation. He added the "Doctor (abbreviated Dr.)" to his pen name because his father had always wanted him to practice medicine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thefw.com/things-you-didnt-know-about-dr-seuss/ |title=15 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Dr. Seuss |date=March 2, 2012 |publisher=Thefw.com |access-date=December 16, 2013}}</ref>

For books that Geisel wrote and others illustrated, he used the pen name "Theo LeSieg", starting with ''[[I Wish That I Had Duck Feet]]'' published in 1965. "LeSieg" is "Geisel" spelled backward.<ref>Morgan (1995), p. 219</ref> Geisel also published one book under the name Rosetta Stone, 1975's ''Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo!!'', a collaboration with [[Michael K. Frith]]. Frith and Geisel chose the name in honor of Geisel's second wife Audrey, whose maiden name was Stone.<ref>Morgan (1995), p. 218</ref>