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.
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
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.
Snowy River is the name of my shop/business. Snowy River Woodworks. I chose this because we have lots of snow here and I have a creek/river in my backyard.
Well there was already a Tony which is my real nickname-Anthony is my middle name-and I am a huge Beatles fan so I chose that-should have been Beatles plural but I was in a hurry to join up and left off the "s"-
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
" "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
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).
Well, I kinda picked up woodworking as a hobby to fill my time. That way I wouldn't get bored. So it was a way of "breaking boredom" which I switched to "boardom" since it's kinda a wood based hobby. Just a little play on words.
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