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Offline Jaycon

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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #135 on: Wednesday 13 July 05 19:09 BST (UK) »
First initial of my christian name J as in  (Jay) and first three letters of surname.
Loughinisland,Co Down...Emerson, Hagan, Carlile
Tawnagh, Co Sligo...Candon/Condon,Keavney
Roseneath, Dunbartonshire..Emerson
Glasgow, Lanarkshire...Logan, Candon,Callaghan,McGovern
Greenock, Renfrewshire...McMenamie, Hawthorne, Campbell,Kennedy,Murdoch

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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #136 on: Thursday 14 July 05 15:02 BST (UK) »
Ruth is one of those names that doesn't get shortened - just lengthened to Ruthie; add the initial of my middle name B - and that's me! ;)
Jones, Mantle; Radnorshire
Russell, Stonehouse, Agar; Yorkshire/Durham
Brown, Fair; Durham,  
Little, Cumberland
Morris, Woolley, Owens; Montgomeryshire.

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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #137 on: Saturday 16 July 05 04:27 BST (UK) »
My surname is pronounced (Okay, adopt your sexiest French accent) 'du Sharm', but a best friend calls me Mrs. Duck Charm.
It bugged the bee-geebers outta me, but now I like it.  No problems with someone else having the same name. :)

Flipster: I had the nickname of 'Flipper' too! My first job was cooking breakfast at a large restaurant chain. Lots of egg flipping. :)

Kitch59: Happy Birthday tomorrow... er, on my time it's tomorrow. (Had to look at your profile to see ifin you were male or female. ;D) I'm older than you by 3 months. ;)

Fun thread, Tabitha!
Donna

Edited for post script: Tabitha... pretty picture, pretty lady, pretty smile. I bet people instantly like you when they meet you. :)
Shropshire: James, Lawley, Mumford, Dyer
Cumberland: Pattinson, Russell, Knight, Hanna, Durham

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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #138 on: Saturday 16 July 05 15:33 BST (UK) »
Quote from: DuckCharm on Saturday 16 July 05 04:27 BST (UK)
Edited for post script: Tabitha... pretty picture, pretty lady, pretty smile. I bet people instantly like you when they meet you. :)

Thank you Donna aka DuckCharm  :)

Tabitha
Bevan, Hill, Tustin, Watkins, Teague (Herefordshire, Radnorshire). Rockett, Lillycrap, Govett, Gready, Saunders (Somerset). Sussex, Smale (Devon). Oliver, Kennedy, Cummings, Wright (Co. Durham). Farish (Cumberland, Scotland). Cox (London, Middlessex, Buckinghamshire).

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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #139 on: Saturday 16 July 05 17:03 BST (UK) »
Julie is so common it had obviously gone so I started with Julie1965 - but soon got very bored by that.  Sat for ages trying to think of something witty, mysterious yet strangely simple - that didn't work... so thought I'll chose the first thing I see....which was my lovley Welsh Springer Spaniel.  His pet name wouldn't work so I went with his kennel name...which oddly enough means (cue Twighlight Zone music)

...'friendly ghost'....

PS: Female (jic)
PPS: Excellent topic!
Stiff - Monmouthshire & Glos, Parry - Monmouthshire
Stafford - Glos, Liles - Glos, Bright- Glos, Webb - Monmouthshire & Glos, Smart - Glos, Smith - Glos
Sullivan - Ireland, Jones (oh dear! Almost as bad as Smith), Walker - Somerset, Llewellyn
And, no don't laugh...Crump...I think it's great!

And of course, if I ever do manage to do a successful look up it is crown copyright and all that legal stuff!

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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #140 on: Saturday 16 July 05 23:01 BST (UK) »
Mine is carol because I'm a bit predictable and it's my name ..and sea for C , first letter of my second name but also because I love to be beside the sea. ( I feel a song coming on....)

Carol ;D
Sourbutts  -Ormskirk/North Meols/Southport/Liverpool
Barton - North Meols/Southport  
Bell - Dumfries/Edinburgh
Fields-  Edinburgh/London
Beddall  -Liverpool/Wolverhampton
Potts- Southport
Hewitt - Liverpool

They must be there-or I wouldn't be here!

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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #141 on: Sunday 17 July 05 00:21 BST (UK) »
Maybe, just maybe...someone can guess how I chose my name!!!

Love the topic
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Diana
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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #142 on: Sunday 17 July 05 06:17 BST (UK) »
What a great topic! I've just had lots of fun looking up some familiar names.

I'm piedstilt because the logo of our publishing company was a pied stilt.  (It turned out to be quite a bad choice because not only did it have really long legs and the whole thing wouldn't fit on the spine of the book, but it turned out that nobody knew how to draw its feet and it ended up being depicted standing in water.)

I used it first in an online competition with a bunch of other publishers and so I've continued using it ever since.

Ros
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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #143 on: Sunday 17 July 05 08:28 BST (UK) »
That's great, Pied Stilt - yours was one I would never have guessed.  So is a pied stilt a bird of some kind?  Excuse pom ignorance here!

cheers

Paul
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