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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
Some of you (or most of you) have very strange and enigmatic nicknames.
How did you get your nickname?
 
#2 ·
Well, in my case, my last name is Holladay, so I have often been called Doc by friends. It has just kind of stuck and I have always kind of liked it. Besides, I have always enjoyed the stories about Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp.
 
#7 · (Edited by Moderator)
Peter O, you do not answer the question,( what is the "O" for?) never the less I shall answer yours.
I am French, my first name is Bertrand.
American people struggle with foreign names and especially when is more than one or two syllables in them. So to make is easier on them I shortened my name to Bert ( that they still cannot spell or pronounce, They spell it Burt. Nest time I shall choose Jack). Then later when I had to created a user name for my email and so on, I simply replaced the 'e" in Bert by a "2", the "ch" is simply the first two letters of my last name
 
#8 ·
Mine refers to the unique mark a hammer face leaves on a piece of wood when you miss a nail. Years ago, almost all carpenters were in the union. Sooo, when you missed your mark, you left a UnionLabel on the wood.
 
#20 ·
Hmmm, maybe because every time I build something for the first time, the customer always says "that's not right" or maybe because "I'm just NOT RIGHT" LOL or could it be a take off on the "Woodwright's Shop" from PBS because sometimes, I think he's just knotwright :)
 
#21 · (Edited by Moderator)
" "American people struggle with foreign names and especially when is more than one or two syllables in them."

I do not mean to put anyone down, but it is the experiences of foreigners, in this country, that the natives struggle with their name, ask my first wife who is Chinese.
I worked in 27 different countries and many times I struggled with names also and I still cannot pronounce my first wife's nickname correctly: Cathy. I struggle with the "th" sound

By the way shopguryl you do not give an explanation for your nickname
 
#22 ·
yeah mine is simple hooky is my surname

here in Oz all names either get lengthened or shortened

like john becomes johno and gary becomes gazza and michael becomes mick and so on

Hooky

(Purplev i like that your name is purple heart)
 
#24 ·
hooky - thanks mate!

b2rtch - I just think that adding that 'American people' is politically incorrect, as the mispronunciation of names and words in general is not specific to any one nation- but to humans in general - is your wife is chinese, than you should know that first hand that there are many chinese names that you wouldn't even know how to pronounce even if heard many times over. I think it all comes from us coming from different cultures where the spoken word, accents, syllables and what not are all pronounced and spoken differently, sometimes making it hard to understand each other (but that's a whole other story).

Peace!
 
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