What does it MEAN??

[Meg McKilty]

I was in the pool this morning doing my first pool workout in 4.5 years (yay me), and I was pondering very hard: what the crap does "kelownagirl" mean?!

Is it Kel-Own-A-Girl? Is it Kelowna-Girl?

More-so, what does everyone's name mean? Mine, Meg McKilty, is a name a friend made up to name his future bar. I will have a stained-glass portrait of me on the ceiling in a kilt and have happy hour drinks named after Scottish lore.
Btw, I am not Scottish; I just like kilts.

[mimitabby]

Kelowna is a place.

[kelownagirl]

LOL.......

And a beautiful place it is....


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelowna,_British_Columbia

http://www.tourismkelowna.com/

http://www.kelownabc.com/index.html

http://www.kelowna.ca

And it's pronounced Kuhl OWN ah

And congrats on getting in the pool!!!

[LBTC]

giggle
Kelowna is only a half hour drive away from where I live, so it never occurred to me that the name might have any other meaning.

btw, my nick is the acronym for the words on the top tube of my bike "the Little B!!ch That Could".

Of course, I had assumed you were Scottish because of your name and think it's fun that you're all about the kilt!

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[Melalvai]

Melalvai is from a elven language my husband invented when he was a teenager. It might sound weird but constructed languages, or "con-lang" are so common that their forums & lists make TE and even Bike Forums look tiny and mild mannered. The whole family has their own elven name. It's an easy way to come up with a name that has not been chosen by anyone else.

Melalvai means Peaceful Mischief. My daughter, Nelalvai, means Little Mischief.

[Zen]

Kelowna.
When I first started coming here I dyslexified that into "clown".
No offense intended, you can see how that can happen

[SouthernBelle]

Mine is so unimaginative.

[melissam]

Mine is so unimaginative.

Don't feel bad, SB -- mine is even less imaginative.

Hey, maybe we should start a pool to come up with a new screen name for me!!

-- MelissaM

[kat_h]

Don't feel bad, SB -- mine is even less imaginative.
-- MelissaM

You're not alone.

kat

[NoNo]

My name is Annette, so No No Nanette. That and one day in HS Chem, my friend spun around in his seat and said "I'm going to start calling you 'NoNo'. You just look like one." I don't know what that means

[melissam]

You're not alone.

kat

Yes, but you get bonus creativity points for putting an underscore between your first name & last initial.

[Wahine]

Mine is a nickname my husband has gave me and is commonly used amongst my buddies. I love to windsurf, surf and snowboard - all baord sports.... hawaiian origins... thus Wahine. And no, I'm not Hawaiian and my real name could have easily been Meg McKilty based on my ancestry. My real name is a very old Celtic name.

[csr1210]

Mine's my initals plus anniversary month/day. Not very original, but I got tired of trying to remember "who I was" at different places, and this is easy for family and close friends to recognize as me. I really admire the quirky, descriptive names some of you have come up with!

[Pax]

Mine is the first part of the phrase Queen B!tch Of The Universe. It was given to me by a not-quite-recovered crack addict I worked with in social services, my co-workers thought it was hilarious so it stuck...I will actually answer to Queen in meatspace now.

[tulip]

I like flowers.