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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reanjr" data-source="post: 1927112" data-attributes="member: 20740">Back in BBS days (c. '89-90), because my name is Rich, and at the time Ranger Rick seemed like a fun idea, I ended up with Ranger.  Well, as time went on, I found that I wanted something a bit more special.Prior to this, my friend Tony and I had been playing a sword and sorcery fantasy RPG (this is before I ever heard of D&D or formal role-playing, we just made it up and played free form).  I did a little conlanging (making up languages) and in the language I made up, the pronunciation of the word ranger would have been spelled reanj'r.  So I started using this.  Once the internet (actually the world wide web...) hit, it seemed the world hated my apostrophe (') (I don't know of any reason why, but ISPs do not allow an apostrophe in your username).  So I dropped the apostrophe and was left with reanjr.  At some point, it became customary to always write this lowercase.  This takes precedence over normal capitalization.  For instance at the beginning of a sentence, reanjr would still be lowercase.So there it is.  The long, convoluted, and possibly very boring account of the username reanjr.  (Final note: I bet 99% of the people who ever saw it pronounced it something along the lines of reign-junior, so in chat rooms I tend to respond to junior or jr as that's usually me).</blockquote>