At long last, for the first time anywhere on the internet, the origin story of
(the name) “arundelo”!
After my parents picked “Aaron” as my first name, Mom asked Dad to suggest a
middle name. He suggested “Dale”, inspired by the last name of a news
correspondent named Arthur W. “Nick”
Arundel. (“Arundel” --> “Aaron
Dale”.)
When I got a Hotmail address, “aaron-brown” and similar usernames were
taken. Brainstorming for other options and remembering the above story, I gave
“arundel” a try, but that was taken too. I was spending a fair amount of
time with Esperanto at the time, so I
tried adding an “o”, which is what Esperanto nouns end with. “arundelo” was
not taken, so that’s what I chose.
Since then I’ve used it for many other websites and have never run into anyone
else who uses it. It does not function as a true pseudonym, since it’s dead
easy to connect it with my real name. I make no effort
to keep them separate.
ah-roon-DELL-oh and air-un-DELL-oh are both acceptable pronunciations. I
(mildly) prefer the first.
At long last, for the first time anywhere on the internet, the origin story of (the name) “arundelo”!
After my parents picked “Aaron” as my first name, Mom asked Dad to suggest a middle name. He suggested “Dale”, inspired by the last name of a news correspondent named Arthur W. “Nick” Arundel. (“Arundel” --> “Aaron Dale”.)
When I got a Hotmail address, “
aaron-brown” and similar usernames were taken. Brainstorming for other options and remembering the above story, I gave “arundel” a try, but that was taken too. I was spending a fair amount of time with Esperanto at the time, so I tried adding an “o”, which is what Esperanto nouns end with. “arundelo” was not taken, so that’s what I chose.Since then I’ve used it for many other websites and have never run into anyone else who uses it. It does not function as a true pseudonym, since it’s dead easy to connect it with my real name. I make no effort to keep them separate.
ah-roon-DELL-oh and air-un-DELL-oh are both acceptable pronunciations. I (mildly) prefer the first.