<p>Achat is also the hebrew feminine form of ONE, as in God (female) is one.</p>
<p>Sorry, Marite <em>has</em> to be pronounced Muh-reet or possibly Mare-eet. I won’t have it any other way! :)</p>
<p>I think of her as Sweet Muh-reet, because she is always kind and generous w/her time.
Assumed Cangel was something to do with the Golden State but couldn’t figure out what.
I also thought Mom was Jammin’, Sooz was Viet and filled in digmedia’s missing i.</p>
<p>Yup, I think of Marite as Muh-reet too not as “Mahr-ee-tay”. Will have major realignment to do if I thought “Mahr-ee-tay”.</p>
<p>I know my screen name is pretty boring, but to me the reality of having three kids instead of just the two I’d had (becoming step-mom to the third) has been nothing but amazing excitement. Also thought it might throw folks off the scent, but NOOOO. Glad to know how to pronounce these clever names.</p>
<p>Where I live, Cheers is a sign-off expression meaning “Thanks for that”.</p>
<p>Soozie–who I picture in polar fleece and birkenstocks–still reads “Soo-Viet” to me, a version of Soviet. She caught me out on that and corrected me. At length. :)</p>
<p>Jamimom, Pronounced it as Jam-i-Mom–but thought it was a reference to Jamican roots. And a refined, socially concious Jamican woman would never wear jammies while sitting at the computer! </p>
<p>Did I miss Achat? Always pronounced it Ah-shat…</p>
<p>Cangel, my family used to summer at Silver Beach Motel and Cottages in Destin–when Destin looked a little like early Seaside. I used to camp on the beaches that later became Dune Allen and Seaside. What a magical place…Still have some great friends on that coast…</p>
<p>Fun thread, well done…</p>
<p>kluge can also mean “clever” in German.</p>
<p>I disavow any such inference. The main lesson I’ve learned over the past 30 years is that cleverness is invariably a prologue to disaster.</p>
<p>I chose my screen name back in the anxious “how will she ever get into a good college with all these terrific students out there” and “how will we ever pay for college considering we have absolutely nothing, and I mean NO MONEY AT ALL saved” time of life. She got accepted to all her schools; somehow, we are affording it; and… I’m too lazy or dumb to figure out how to change my screen name. pronounced just like ya do in Amerrricun: ang-shus mom. Anxiousmom.
Anxiousmom<br>
(P.S. there was also someone named “anxious mom” - notice the space between the words - who used to post. I haven’t seen her in the last year or so…)</p>
<p>P.p.S. I just noticed the user name “Tanstaafl” on another thread in the parent forum. If I remember correctly, (and I don’t usually!), it refers to the phrase in Heinlein’s book “The moon’s a harsh mistress” - it stands for “There’s no such thing as a free lunch”. Cool name!</p>
<p>Cangel - I just figured you made a lot of jelly. Or were a hairstylist. But mostly the jelly.</p>
<p>I’m a Girl Scout leader, and my nickname is Firefly. That’s usually taken, so I just tacked on “scout” at the end. I’m also usually on the lookout for fireflies, because the mosquito foggers in the Houston area kill them.</p>
<p>Loved Seaside. Maybe we should start a thread about favorite vacations (someone can figure out a link to colleges).</p>
<p>:D Thanks, anxiousmom! Yes, it comes from “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” Heinlein is one of my favorite authors, and that is one of his most well known phrases, so I stole it. Later, to my chagrin, I discovered that it was an actual economic term–ugh!</p>
<p>I’ve always thought of it as TAHN–sthafl.</p>
<p>my screen name is a version of my email account, and ebay name.
For those that speak french it means mother of the girls.</p>
<p>mer-day-fee</p>
<p>It’s funny how you misread things. I thought that justletmein was justlte–mein
Then realized what it was and felt dumb.</p>
<p>I use Kinshasa for almost every website or user ID — it’s rare that it’s taken.
We spent three years in Kinshasa, Zaire (now DRCongo), our first overseas post.
I loved every minute.</p>
<p>My last name is pronounced: Van-da-lay. Im an architect.</p>
<p>Oh, dear, I did not realize my screen name would give rise to so much speculation. It should indeed be pronounced Ma ree tay as it’s short for Marie Therese. Xiggi would remind me that I need to put in French accents. There is an acute accent on “te.”</p>
<p>achat - I always thought your name meant that you liked to have “a chat” on the CC board!</p>
<p>Marite-so pretty. I always thought that maybe the pre-med daughter was Jami. Can gel -thought perhaps a maker of canker sore gel, can’t get drugs out of my brain. Just saw that there is no i in digmedia. Also thought there was a Inca mom. LA are intials I use at work and I grew up in Los Angeles county so LA & mom-so boring. But it looks like la (spanish the) mom and since I got on to find out about Nat’l Hispanic Scholars that would have been ok-but I wasn’t bright enough to think it. When I first got on I thought Thedad was a founder and had the title given to him.</p>
<p>Oh Marite, I just can’t do it. After a year and a half of calling you “muh-reet,” it’s an impossible transition! I’ll let the entire board call me Peruvian mama or any variation of such if I can still pronounce your name the way I’ve always done…</p>
<p>Marite, I got it right! And it is beautiful . . .wouldn’t have known your name was short for Marie Therese, which also is beautiful.</p>