Hi,
This does not have much to do with swimming, but I was just wondering how people come up with their handles (your alias that you use for your name). Do you have a specific meaning or did somebody just give you this nickname?
Mine was given partially tot me by my brother-in-law, who thought that hans was a Dutch name (i am Dutch) and I like James bond, although he is a bad swimmer...
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seriously, Cynthia, my previous post was an outrageous string of lies - just a way to temporarily fool a bunch of people and get some laughs.
Arcuni is just a rather unusual Italian name - though it may mean a person who makes bows (as in bows and arrows.) or, it may come from the word for bridge in the Sicilian dialect.
In the real world, Philip does have a greek root - it means lover of horses, the combination of philos and hippos (brotherly (good thing!) love and horse.) I believe that hippopotomus is a greek word meaning river horse, or something like that.
Of course, the spelling of Phillip is just a transliteration of the Greek name with a similar sound - how it is spelled in English is pretty arbitrary.
BUT.... I maintain that Philip (one l) is a first name, while Phillip and Phillips is a last name. I would be right, too, except so many parents give their sons a first name with the spelling of a last name. Just another indication of the decline of the west.:(
seriously, Cynthia, my previous post was an outrageous string of lies - just a way to temporarily fool a bunch of people and get some laughs.
Arcuni is just a rather unusual Italian name - though it may mean a person who makes bows (as in bows and arrows.) or, it may come from the word for bridge in the Sicilian dialect.
In the real world, Philip does have a greek root - it means lover of horses, the combination of philos and hippos (brotherly (good thing!) love and horse.) I believe that hippopotomus is a greek word meaning river horse, or something like that.
Of course, the spelling of Phillip is just a transliteration of the Greek name with a similar sound - how it is spelled in English is pretty arbitrary.
BUT.... I maintain that Philip (one l) is a first name, while Phillip and Phillips is a last name. I would be right, too, except so many parents give their sons a first name with the spelling of a last name. Just another indication of the decline of the west.:(
