<p>Mer - eh -tee?</p>
<p>At first I wondered what sac had to do with the Strategic Air Command. Most people seem to think I’m some wild perpetual motion mother named Sandie. Truth is, I’m no good at catchy screen names. I live in San Diego.</p>
<p>I agree with idler</p>
<p>This is an interesting thread. I kind of wish I had picked a more interesting name, but I figure at least everyone can pronounce it. I picked it because my D’s strongest performance area is dance (who’d a thunk it). I primarily frequent the musical theatre thread and I wanted to distinguish myself from the many posters who use theatre in their names.</p>
<p>I love the name Helicoptermom - she’s told us that it refers to a parent who hovers over her children. I wish I had thought of it.</p>
<p>Jamimom - I’ve always thought of you as Jamie. I never thought about sitting and posting in jammies as so many others apparently did.</p>
<p>Soozievt - I have always pronounced as Susie-Vermont, though I started leaving out the Vermont in my mind many months ago.</p>
<p>Momof2inca - I’ll admit to seeing the ancient Peruvians at 1st, but I remember reading a post several months ago that made reference to living in California and the lightbulb came on.</p>
<p>Emeraldkity - PLEASE enlighten me. Yours is the name that has puzzled me for a very long time. Whenever I see your name my brain makes a jump to “The Wizard of Oz” and the Emerald City. How do you pronounce your name???</p>
<p>Sac is her initials if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>And I think I remember Muh-reet’ saying hers was a french nickname.</p>
<p>I see “SoozieVT” has a lot of mental pronunciations. I used to always read it as “Sooz Viet” (that is, Susan of Vietnamese ethnicity) until one time when I replied in a thread where she had replied and really looked closely at the spelling. </p>
<p>I appreciated hearing about the pronunciation of “Cangel” as “sea angel.” I always was sure that “Fendergirl” referred to the guitar brand name. </p>
<p>My own screen name, tokenadult, is pronounced, um, “token adult.” I chose it for a screen name on the Art of Problem Solving Web site back when I thought that there were very few adults there. There are actually more adults who post there than I realized at first. I learned about this CC Web site over on AoPS from Texas137, who I thought then was a dad, as most AoPS parents are. (But here on CC Texas137 refers to her husband, and I think she has also referred to a female college roommate in a dorm, so I figured out she is a mom.) I came over here with the same screen name just to be consistent. Most places I post online I use my real name, which used to be the rule everywhere I posted. Marite figured out my real-world identity rather rapidly, from previous online acquaintance. </p>
<p>I enjoy seeing “tokenadult” turn into “Tolkein adult” once in a while. That makes sense–too bad I didn’t think of that myself.</p>
<p>You mean it’s not Toke’n Adult? :)</p>
<p>Just read mine as it is with a soft u sounding like uh. The name is not really a mystery or representation of any Dr status. It is merely the reverse of a word that often describes the state of the world.</p>
<p>OK, that’s clever, Drusba.</p>
<p>But I thought it was Drewsba.</p>
<p>I’m batting a thousand.</p>
<p>I also thought it was pronounced drewsba, which is a Slovak surname (roll the R a bit). Didn’t think of reversal. One of my favorites is Alwaysamom.</p>
<p>:)
Well, I didn’t think of the French word ‘achat’ when I created the screen name, it was just the first initial and 4 letters of my son’s last name.</p>
<p>Drusba, clever name.</p>
<p>Drusba also sounds like the Russian word for “friendship” = Druzhbar</p>
<p>k-i-n-e-t-i-c</p>
<p>Well, I have had the nickname Shennie since I was 17 and had to pick a name as GS camp leader. I picked Shennendoah cuz I loved to play the song on my guitar. The name got shortened to Shennie and that has been my nickname since. When I went to college, there was a sophmore girl there who worked at camp with me and only knew my camp name so she introduced me as Shennie to everyone. Even my old college friends call me that. When it came time to pick a screen name, it seemed natural. However, my license plate reads MUZKMOM.</p>
<p>Jamimom has always been Jammin’ Mom in my head from some reason.</p>
<p>Susie is Soozie-veet.</p>
<p>And it is definitely Kan-jel.</p>
<p>Oh, and I never realized that digmedia was missing the I in the middle either. It has always been digimedia to me.</p>
<p>Another who parsed “Drusba” as Slavic…shame on me, who plays with words in all forms, for having missed that.</p>
<p>I believe “Mahr-ee-tay” is correct…can’t believe she hasn’t found this thread yet.</p>
<p>Dancersmom, I could have just as easily chosen Dancersdad and people would have thought we were related…<em>two</em> parents of a child on CC…oy vey!!!</p>
<p>I’m still working on “cruciverbalists”…writers of crossword puzzles?</p>
<p>Garland, “kluge” is a time-honored practical engineering term. :)</p>
<p>Garland, kluge is an actual word I’m fond of. It’s similar to, and often confused with, kludge. “To kluge” - v., or “a kluge” - n. refers to a clumsy mechanical workaround of a problem - think Rube Goldberg with too much to drink and a roll of duct tape. A kludge is a similar concept involving computer programs I’m told. I like to tinker, and most of my efforts turn out pretty kluge-y. The etymology is unclear, with multiple conflicting explanations, and frequent confusion with kludge. (Sorry for that overlong explication. You may now all return to your normal programming.)</p>
<p>Shennie, how long have you been on the board? You and Calquest were the ones who answered my very first questions about National Merit.</p>
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<p>SPIIIIIN the big prize wheel! 
You got it, TheDad, and some of 'em were <em>really</em> good!</p>
<p>OK since I’m so universally CAN-JEL, how did you guys think I came up with the name?! What did it mean? This is fascinating, because some of the interpretations of names, including mine, just never occirred to me, it is fascinating.</p>