What's your real name?

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I'm decended from the Tudor royalty

As am I! My English side of the family comes from Lancashire, that's my dad's half. My mom's is a mix of German, Russian, French, and Irish.
I'm also related to Jeb Steuart, the Confederate general.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

No idea about my family history. My mothers side is MacDonald, which is all over the place, and my fathers is Murison, which is pretty rare regardless of where it comes from.

 

[CaptainF]

My family history is primarily Scottish and Swiss.

With a lil' bit of French thrown in.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Apparently EVERYONE comes from Scotland.

See, we had a great plan way back in 1000 AD and colonised the globe, with the full intention to take over everything. Then there was the whole English invasion thing, some wars of independance, a unification and we forgot the original plan.

 

[Quinzy]

"the irish don't invade, we infest! we send one man to a country, he builds a house, 3 months later 20 irishmen walk out!"

- tommy teirnan, irish comedian

i'm not sure if thats 100% exactly what he said, but either way, he's right.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Irish, Scottish, is there a difference anymore?

 

[raen]

My name is Rui, a common Portuguese name, at least for some centuries.

But I would like to know how it sounds to you? and where it comes from? some say it cames from german name "Rodrigo"?!, some from french word for king(roy), others say its a big mountain in japanese, I dont know...

Its difficult to other language native speakers to spell it right.

 

[GinandTonic]

Ben.

Benedict, in fact. After Much Ado About Nothing. Problem was that as a kid every class had at least two or three Bens in it, so I got my full name untill I was about twelve.

I was named by the guy who ran the corner shop, in a way. My dad wanted to call me Benjamin and my mum Benedict. My dad went to the corner shop and mr Patel asked after his new-born. He advised him to go with Benedict, though possibly just for the sake of domestic harmony and he took his advice.

I respond to Ben or Benedict (though it still makes me feel like a schoolboy being repremanded). There is one girl who gets away with calling me Benny. Dont much like it but she's a forceful woman and been calling me it for years, so not much hope of changing that one.

I live in hope now there is a Pope Benedict people might finally know how to spell it, but so far in vain. Ben is the no1 name for dogs in the uk which isnt necessarily a good thing. French people think its amusing I have a girls name, another thing I hope the new Pope might knock back. Having the word dick in your name is not a good thing in an inner London comprehensive.

All in all though I like it.

Middle name for my grandfather, and the last being my own concern.

 

[Quinzy]

My name is Rui, a common Portuguese name, at least for some centuries.

But I would like to know how it sounds to you? and where it comes from? some say it cames from german name "Rodrigo"?!, some from french word for king(roy), others say its a big mountain in japanese, I dont know...

Its difficult to other language native speakers to spell it right.

it may come from the irish word Rua, meaning red?

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

I respond to Ben or Benedict (though it still makes me feel like a schoolboy being repremanded). There is one girl who gets away with calling me Benny. Dont much like it but she's a forceful woman and been calling me it for years, so not much hope of changing that one.

Once a teacher called me Phil, now although everyone calls me Phil (even I introduce myself as it) I completely didn't realise. Even the person next to me said "did she just call you Phil?"

Obviously I respond to either one (it's hard not to when it makes up one of two syllables in you name

 

[Quinzy]

Irish, Scottish, is there a difference anymore?

i don't think there ever was! i love that scene in, i think it was Braveheart, where the English sent the irish conscripts as a first wave to attack the Scots, and when the Irish got to the Scots, they turned around and the both groups charged at the English! Priceless!

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

i don't think there ever was! i love that scene in, i think it was Braveheart, where the English sent the irish conscripts as a first wave to attack the Scots, and when the Irish got to the Scots, they turned around and the both groups charged at the English! Priceless!

While I hate the film as Patriotic garbage, yes, I love that scene.

"How you doing?" etc etc. Good times.

Theres still some celtish rubbish and uncanny allegiance in our blood yet

 

[GinandTonic]

My name is Rui, a common Portuguese name, at least for some centuries.

But I would like to know how it sounds to you? and where it comes from? some say it cames from german name "Rodrigo"?!, some from french word for king(roy), others say its a big mountain in japanese, I dont know...

Its difficult to other language native speakers to spell it right.

Fine name, and since Rui Costa, poeple must be getting better at spelling it.

 

[Quinzy]

While I hate the film as Patriotic garbage, yes, I love that scene.

"How you doing?" etc etc. Good times.

Theres still some celtish rubbish and uncanny allegiance in our blood yet

hey, you have a DA! so do I. i'm matthaias on it. not much stuff up on it thouh.. my lack of scanner etc.. so i take photo's of the pictures and sharpen them.. i actually have a few still to put up too..

 

[raen]

it may come from the irish word Rua, meaning red?

Funny, Rua in Portuguese means street

But I think not.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Simon is my real first name, with the Darkshade part coming from a long lived AD&D character, and fitting me very nicely.

 

[Taliesin]

My first name is Stuart, my last is a common enough English name.

As far as tracing the family tree goes, I know I've Macdonald blood in my matrilineal descent, one of my great-grandfathers was Welsh, and one of my forefathers was a glassblower in 18th-century York, but there's nothing else of note. I think most of my family on both sides, apart from the Scots, were salt-of-the-earth Yorkshire farmers, so it's likely I'm descended from Rollo or Cnut or somesuch. I can't document it, though. One of my friends in high school had his family tree back to French nobility in the 16th century, the Capetian line, William the Conqueror, and all those warmongering blokes.

 

[Ansar]

All my family is 100% Colombian, except my aunt's husband(political husband, maternal aunt), he is mexican and so are my cousins(their children), all the rest of my family traces back in Bogota, Colombia. Before that I guess we trace back to the Iberian Peninsula, which is basically Spain + Portugal, so I'm hereditarily Spanish/Portuguese, but Colombian by birthplace.

 

[Masquerouge]

Ben.

Benedict, in fact. After Much Ado About Nothing. Problem was that as a kid every class had at least two or three Bens in it, so I got my full name untill I was about twelve.

I was named by the guy who ran the corner shop, in a way. My dad wanted to call me Benjamin and my mum Benedict. My dad went to the corner shop and mr Patel asked after his new-born. He advised him to go with Benedict, though possibly just for the sake of domestic harmony and he took his advice.

I respond to Ben or Benedict (though it still makes me feel like a schoolboy being repremanded). There is one girl who gets away with calling me Benny. Dont much like it but she's a forceful woman and been calling me it for years, so not much hope of changing that one.

I live in hope now there is a Pope Benedict people might finally know how to spell it, but so far in vain. Ben is the no1 name for dogs in the uk which isnt necessarily a good thing. French people think its amusing I have a girls name, another thing I hope the new Pope might knock back. Having the word dick in your name is not a good thing in an inner London comprehensive.

All in all though I like it.

Middle name for my grandfather, and the last being my own concern.

Well Benedict in French is Benoit, my father's name. It is true though that Benedicte is for girls...

 

[jafink]

Josh

Wont give out my last name since im a youngster (15).

Also my friend knew someone whose name was Troy Richard Oscar Young. (his initials spelled his first name.)