if you really wanna call us fucking cocks than i'll get technical.
joel used the alias deadmau5 for years before he became a producer in the online gaming world, when he eventually got into music the name just kind of stuck with him and made sense. the pronunciation is of course "dead mouse" however as we are on an online forum, using letters and text as a means of communication, deadmau5 is the correct spelling, term, word, however you'd like to put it. please fuck off.