http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: What's in a name? en Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:10:25 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58922 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:37:17 +0000 Baldcyclist 58922@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>For some reason I always see:<br /> Uber Cue<br /> Roi Beard<br /> Re Com Bod Na<br /> Koup Poot Nic<br /> Liv id</p> <p>Crowriver, and Riffian somehow remind me of songs??</p> <p>Therapy over for now... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58921 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:16:17 +0000 Stepdoh 58921@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm step-D'OH like the noise homer simpson makes. Mainly due to the fact a REFUUUSE to shorten my name to the v-variant contraction and Steph sounds a wee bit girly. (No offence to v-varienters and/or girls) </p> <p>I think Cyclingmollie changed to Tom for similar reasons :)</p> <p>Being trained in shorthand really helps in the modern world, cos the first thing your brain does is drop all the vowels.</p> <p>Can I suggest Amff? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58850 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:41:06 +0000 recombodna 58850@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Recombo DNA although I like Re-combodnah...... </p> <p><a href="http://youtu.be/Y_sgyLCPoMg" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/Y_sgyLCPoMg</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58849 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:22:31 +0000 DaveC 58849@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have always pro nounced 'Oober roose', SRD, RE COM BOD NA, Anth, &amp; c. h. Dot., Rio Bardie</p> <p>Dave C </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58847 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:19:23 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 58847@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>Anyone ever call you Anton?</em>"</p> <p>Actually, yes. Became a nickname at football, but only because we had a wee penalty competition the same day the Scottish cup had gone to penalties, and I missed, just like Anton Rogan had...</p> <p>I assumed it was French... Chroo-reeeev-ay.... ;) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58841 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:39:17 +0000 crowriver 58841@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@anth, that's definitely a north east thing. I was always taught that even if spelled Anthony, one should pronounce An-ton-i. You know, Marcus Antonius, the Antonine wall, etc.</p> <p>Anyone ever call you Anton? Then you could go all Germanic like Herr Über who was the cause of this thread.</p> <p>Surely there's no confusion over the pronunciation of my handle, which also has an Irish reference. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58840 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:33:42 +0000 Nelly 58840@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@darkerside You may also wish to google 'albums by Devo' to get more of a clue. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58839 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:30:48 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 58839@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Anth (to friends) or Anthony (at work). Tony is a select band who can get away with a name I don't particularly like. It would be odd to hear Mel call me anything different now. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58838 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:03:49 +0000 BicycleLegal 58838@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Anth - So if others declared you to be Tony or Anth, then is your preferred name Anthony? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58835 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:46:29 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 58835@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wingpig, that would be logical... As opined above, it was uni friends when I first met them that declared I was Tony. Nothing of my doing.</p> <p>@SRD, which colleague was that then??? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58832 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:14:45 +0000 chdot 58832@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>How about reKombodna reKombod nah?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58831 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:10:29 +0000 SRD 58831@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>reh not ree? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58830 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:10:14 +0000 wingpig 58830@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@anth Presumably, for consistency, you insist that anyone calling you 'Tony' pronounces it 'Thony'?</p> <p> @Darkerside When I was at school we called it 'recombinant DNA'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58829 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:09:26 +0000 Darkerside 58829@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Despite staring at it for a good minute, I still can't work out recombodna as any other than the pronunciation given above. Someone illuminate me...? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58828 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:03:41 +0000 SRD 58828@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Colleague of mine guessed that I knew you via cycling because I called you 'Anth' not 'Tony'. better tell him it's all broken down... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58827 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:02:07 +0000 chdot 58827@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Can't be ant, doesn't have enough legs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58825 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:53:46 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 58825@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Most definitely not 'Ant' and most certainly 'Anth' as my name is not 'Antony' but rather very 'th' pronounced 'Anthony'.</p> <p>[EDIT - as far as I understand it the rendering to 'Anth' is a north-east England thing, place of my birth, and all my relatives there, plus schoolfriends from Aberdeenshire, call me that - I became 'Tony' at uni through no attempt of my own, and my other half knows me as that as it continued into my work life as I started at the same firm as a couple of my uni peers. I shifted int he last two jobs deliberately back to 'Anthony', and in the last job worked with a guy from the north-east of England who, without forewarning, called me 'Anth'] </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58824 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:44:40 +0000 chdot 58824@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I prefer Roy Beard! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58821 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:42:22 +0000 Roibeard 58821@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'd gone for the Über-uce rendering, and I think the superlative fits!</p> <p>As for Roibeard, properly Roibeárd, it's simply pronounced "Robert", just the Irish spelling...</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58815 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:30:14 +0000 Uberuce 58815@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Greenroofer: you were alas a victim of my terrible diction, not helped by the fact that the ASC is hardly a library in terms of background noise. Either way, the Y sound sneaked in erroneously.<br /> ExcitableBoy had the same pronunciation in mind, so you're not alone. I wonder if either or both of you studied Italian? </p> <p>As chdot says, it's uber ooce, in the Germanic mould, but if florid hand gestures and espresso are involved, I'll happily answer to the Italian. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58813 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:15:46 +0000 cb 58813@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Am I alone in this"</p> <p>No; at least not as far as I'm concerned.</p> <p>Maybe this would be an opportunity for forum members to stick down their preferred phonetic rendering.</p> <p>See-Bee </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58809 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:57:37 +0000 Nelly 58809@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nah, you are thinking of K C and he ran the Sunshine Band </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58808 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:51:43 +0000 gembo 58808@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>C H . did you not used to have a brother C J . that ran Sunshine Desserts? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58807 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:42:41 +0000 chdot 58807@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nah it's uber ooce</p> <p>In case of doubt it's C H . </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58806 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:41:23 +0000 gembo 58806@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>g-roofer - you should get Spitters to do a diagram as he has had to change his name many many times in a way that none of the rest of us have had to [Cyclingmollie did become Tom and there wasn't even an operation} but Spits has been Spitfire, Spytfire, Spitfyre and Spitefire to name but a few [many of which I have just made up] </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5502#post-58803 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:31:36 +0000 Greenroofer 58803@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I met <em>Uberuce</em> in real life yesterday. We exchanged greetings. I said I was <em>Greenroofer</em> on the forum, and he said he was <em>YouBruce</em>.</p> <p>I walked away from the conversation thinking 'You're not YouBruce. I've always known you in my mind as <em>Ooberoochay</em>' (think Liberace).</p> <p>Some names on the forum are obvious: you can't go far wrong with <em>Dave</em>, and I assume <em>DaveC</em> isn't pronounced <em>Day-veck</em>. I assume too that <em>SRD</em> doesn't favour the pronunciation <em>Surd</em> over <em>Ess-Are-Dee</em>. Similarly, I assume it's <em>Ant</em>, and not <em>An-th</em>. </p> <p>For a long time I thought we had someone called <em>Ree-com-bod-na</em> on the forum, and in fact I still favour that rendering.</p> <p>I've frankly no idea what sounds to make for <em>Bhachgen</em>.</p> <p>Am I alone in this, or do we need a guide where the owners of potentially confusing pronunciations give a definitive view on how they like to be known?</p> <p>...or does that spoil the fun? </p>