Hi all I sometimes ponder over the meaning of posters' usernames and thought it might be an interesting topic for a thread. My own "maydonoz" is the Turkish word for parsley, to reflect my many years living in Turkey, previously and also enjoy cooking so use many herbs, including parsley. Some of you may wish to share your username meaning too.
My name should be ‘my friend flossie turner who is 86’. My mum always gave names to people “fred with the yellow Dustbin” for example. We never knew any of the people. She would never say just ‘Dolly’ it always had the same long handle. She said it for years and I don’t remember that she got older.
Now when anyone starts a sentence with ‘my fiend’ there is a chorus of voices adding the handle.
Mine stems from living some years in Turkey. I became friendly with a Turkish woman who lived close by. She wanted to give me the name Ayse (Aisha) whilst I gave her the English. name Elizabeth. It was a friend thing.
I was thrilled when daughter told me she was pregnant with my first grandchild then she was told it was twins . Therefore the news was TwiceasNice. My beautiful granddaughters are now 11.
Annie is the second part of my christian name lengthened , my grandfather called me Annie Bach, little Annie, it stuck, ok when a child but when grown to 5’7” !
Bleak House.....brings back memories of English A level... Evangeline Harcourt was one of my favourite parts I played when Am Dram was permitted... remember those days, long, long ago....
A literary reference: one of the central characters of my favourite Charles Dickens novel, Bleak House. I have no place in Lincolnshire nor any connection with (Sir) Leicester) but I may or may not have a dark secret.
We bred a filly foal from our mare a few years ago and gave her a beautiful name. I always thought if we bred another horse I would love to call it Beauregard. Alas, it wasn't to be, so I decided it could be my username instead.