Coincidence?

I think not!

It occurred to me this morning that my screen name, AlleyCat, has more in common with my maiden name than with my married name, as far as the initial sounds are concerned.

To illustrate what I mean, let's take the example of another blog, applesaucer. Imagine this blog belonged to a girl named Ellen Parson (and that her screen name was AppleSaucer instead of GoetzGirl), but before she was married she was called Ellen Schmidt. My contention is that the A from Apple and the S from Saucer sound more similar to the E from Ellen and the Sch from Schmidt than the same E and the P from Parson.

In an interesting and ironical corollary to this observation, Mr. Cat's pseudonym (Mr. Cat) is phonetically more related to my maiden name than to his actual surname.