Why did you choose your Rootschat name?

[Berlin-Bob]

Izabel,

Some people do it all the time ... err, .. change their name, I mean 

if you do decide to change, then read this as well

Topic: Changing your RootsChat name
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,111824.0.html

Bob

[runner]

Don't change it Izabel!!
 I have too many Isobelle.,Isobel,Isabel, Isabelle, Isabella variants in my family tree on both my wife's and my side.  Your's is a nice change. I like it. Be who you are and proud of it. 
Runner

[bitty_matriarch]

Well, my surname courtesey of my husband is McClean, and we have 2 sons whose nicknames all through school and college have been "BigBitty" and "Bitty"  aka the rap singer Bitty McLean - so I'm "bittymatriarch".

When I do the banking for my husband, the girls in the NatWest all ask me how Bitty is [he's in Oz for a year] as they were at school with my younger son!

Cheers,  Ann

[North Country Boy]

Hello all,

I took 'North Country Boy' name from a track by The Charlatans, one of my fave bands. It's also a nickname I got called  at college in London when the track was out as a single back in 1997 (I'm originally from Hull  . The nickname didn't really stick though


Ian

[izabel]

Thanks Runner - I am woman hear me roar!!!
 
Generations of Isabella, Isabel, Izabel and i cant any of them - In unique

[rbangorreg]

Hi.
   It's simple: Lived in Bangor, County Down, for years and my name is Reg.

[bodger]

Who as the most unusual source of user name,mine Bodger, was a name given to me as an apprentice, in those days, 1950/5, i had a crew cut, and in the Daily Mail (i think), there was a cartoon family created by Wally Faulkes who was also clarinetist with the Humprey Lyttleton band, the cartoon family were the "Trogdelytes", one of the family had a crew cut and looked similar to me, so hence my nickname, by the way where does the word, nickname come from ?.
                                                   bodger

Moderator Comment:  topics merged

[runner]

Hi Bodger

Your nickname has a long and honourable past!
Bodgers were the country woodsmen who made chairs and various other thingsfrom greenwood straight from the forrest.

Russell

[meles]

Bodger

There was an old English word "eke" which meant "also".  Used in Chaucer c 1400. So when people were given other names it was "an eke name".  After time, it became "a neke name" - and in time "a nick name".

meles