Members names and what they mean
#151
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Mine comes from my last name Gerbert (married name has been for 44 years now). When I was teaching, most of my fellow teachers called each other by our last names, so as not to use our first names in front of our students, because we didn't want the students to began calling us by our first names- could have caused some problems. I have a very dear friend that I taught with for several years and she shortened my name and began calling me "Gerbie" she still does. I had different nicknames growing up because of my first name Gradene- pronounced as (graydean) difficult for some to pronounce if they haven't heard it before, a for some who have and I didn't want to use any of them so I just chose Gerbie. I was named after my Dad - Grady and my mother's middle name Irene- thus Gradene.
#152
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I know the feeling, nativetexan. I moved from my family home in Colorado 43 years ago and my family and my heart are still there. After 43 years and 9 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren, I will call this my second home. (Can't leave now! I would miss seeing my immediate family. They all live within 3 miles of us.)
#154
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I just use my plain old everyday ordinary name because, if I was anyone else I wouldn't remember the name, so I figure, hey, I've had this name for 76 years now and I can spell it, let it go!!!!!!! Besides, I love the name Edie. I intensely despise the name Edith. I was named after my aunt Edith and I let everyone call her Edith and I was always called Edie. I loved my aunt dearly, but I just didn't like the name Edith My husband always called me Ede and that was his term of endearment for me and no one else ever called me that.
It is my name. Edie
It is my name. Edie
#157
For those of you who asked, I started a thread called "Why or how did you choose your screen name? What does it mean?" back on 6/3/2012 here in the Chit Chat forum. (Don't know how to link back to previous threads, but that is the name and date of it).
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