# What is the origin of your SDMB name? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 4, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810 "2020-09-04T14:08:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 248
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/248 "2020-10-10T18:09:06Z")
During Christmas break (December 2004 - January 2005), I finally decided to sign up with snopes and had some discussions with my husband, who also signed up with snopes. We had already been living in the German-speaking part of Switzerland for a number of years. He, being an electrical engineer, took some electrical name with the masculine definitive article in German, Der. As I am female, I decided to use the female definitive article, Die (pronounced dee, not die). And the electrical name started with Capacitor. But because I am female, I went with the -trix ending. So I am Die Capacitrix. In previous searches I had found another one, which was a character in a webcomic. But the character was first mentioned in the webcomic after I had registered with snopes on January 3, 2005. I am signed up with one other message board without the Die, but I am no longer active there. Any other Capacitrix is not me. And my avator is McCaig’s Folly from Oban, which we had visited a few years previously. I had taken the picture using black and white film which was processed using color processing (T400CN). --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810)._