Lots of you have interesting usernames, so I’m curious to know the stories behind them!
I’ll start with mine! “meia de leite” is the name of a Portuguese drink, a simple cup of coffee and milk. I used to drink it a lot in my university years, and the name stuck.
Kanerva means “Heather” in Finnish. It can be used either as first name (female) or last name (surname) here in Finland. Heather is a common flower even up North.
Obviously… a cat. My first own cat, Angel. He had his name already when we got him, but he was really an angel. He’s gone 7 years ago, before I registered here, so as a memory I chose that name.
Someone will be disappointed, but mikebond has nothing to do with James Bond!
I created this pseudonym when I was 13 or 14 and nobody spoke of usernames. It’s made of my first name in English plus the first letters of my surname. As simple as that!
True north is part of a line in the Canadian national anthem: “the true north, strong and free”. I live on the 49th parallel, hence the 49
On the forum I was pixiebc, which was my first username on Postcrossing as well. Pixie or pix was a nickname some friends used for me in high school, and BC because I used to live in British Columbia back then.
My username is inspired by a detective in the Inspector Rebus novels by Ian Rankin, Siobhan Clarke. I liked the character, but also her name because I studied in Ireland for a semester many, many moons ago and took a course in Irish language there. So it combines my love of (detective) books with my Irish experience.
I almost never capitalize my usernames, so it’s not an accident or laziness that I spell it all in lower case.
Meidans is a combination of the first three characters of my last name which also means the month of may and dans means dance which I loved to do a lot before my feet became so bad that I needed orthopedic shoes. But still I dance in my house .
Meidans is also a dance in the month of may. Allthough I’ve never participated innthis groupdance I like it a lot. So I’m really happy with my username
Raichi is Japanese means “liche” . I don’t feel strongly about liche itself, but its old spell in Kanji “茘枝” moves my heart so much.
Aki is just my given name.