Username Showdown
I was reminded in conversation this morning that I’ve been meaning for months to pick a username that’s unique and ties to my legal name. One of the ideas suggested (off-blog) was to play with prefixes/affixes on my last name, so let’s meet the final contenders:
- disharkins
- Chicagoese for ‘this Harkins’, contrariness in that ‘dis’ means ‘not’. Amusing anagrams like ‘radish sink’ and ‘I risk hands’.
- malharkins / harkinsprop
- Riffs on my old usage of ‘malaprop’ as a handle.
- preterharkins
- Preter- echos the hyper- prefix that used to be faddishly applied to everything Internet. Only a letter away from my name, which is good and bad.
- yharkins
- Aweomsely archaic y-, now really only known in the Scrabble-valuable ‘yclept’, meaning ‘to name’ (you could choke on all the meta in this post). Also looks like a question. A little potential for collision, though there aren’t many first names starting with Y.
- harkinsant / harkinsarian
- Means ‘a person who’, as in servant or librarian.
They’re all Googlenopes except yharkins, which got one use a few years ago on a soon-offline fan forum.
Barring any last-minute wildcards (feel free to suggest), I’m going to go with one of these handles. Please post a comment to let me know which you like or dislike.
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