User:Lochaber
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Hi everybody!
I've been a Wikipedia editor since 2004... but I still don't know what to do with my userpage so I thought I'd just put in a little about my handle.
As some people who read this may already know, Lochaber is a district in Scotland. I'm not actually Scottish (I am in fact Irish national) and when I came across this word many years ago I thought it was some kind of description. Basically there was reference in a David Eddings novel to a Lochaber axe, I thought it was a nice sounding word and started using it as a handle on some BBS's, games and the like. As I mentioned, this was a long time ago and I was living in Singapore at the time, I never come across the district. Of course years later with the advent of the internet and search engines, information was now at my fingertips and I was very surprised to discover the true meaning of Lochaber. But what the hey, I've been using the name for years and I still think it's a nice sounding word!