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As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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03-22-2006, 01:31 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Orange, Texas
Posts: 3,717
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Re: Name Etymology
Regina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Polish, Late Roman
Pronounced: re-JIEN-a, re-JEEN-a, re-GEEN-a [key]
From a Late Latin name meaning "queen". A city in Canada bears this name.
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03-22-2006, 01:42 PM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 34,137
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Re: Name Etymology
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Regina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Polish, Late Roman
Pronounced: re-JIEN-a, re-JEEN-a, re-GEEN-a [key]
From a Late Latin name meaning "queen". A city in Canada bears this name.
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Except, and there's always an except isn't there [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img], the city in Canada is pronounced re-JINE-a. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] Just one of those weird things, and now everybody has learned their new thing for the day! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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03-22-2006, 02:12 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: NC
Posts: 12,270
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Re: Name Etymology
MELISSA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek
Pronounced: me-LIS-a [key]
Means "bee" in Greek. This was the name of a nymph that cared for young Zeus in Greek mythology. It is also the name of the fairy who helps Rogero escape from the witch Alcina in the poem 'Orlando Furioso' by Ariosto.
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03-22-2006, 03:35 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 9,547
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Re: Name Etymology
MELISSA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek
Pronounced: me-LIS-a [key]
Means "bee" in Greek. This was the name of a nymph that cared for young Zeus in Greek mythology. It is also the name of the fairy who helps Rogero escape from the witch Alcina in the poem 'Orlando Furioso' by Ariosto.
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03-22-2006, 03:35 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 9,547
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Re: Name Etymology
I didn't even see that you posted before me, I guess I didn't needto post it again [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
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03-22-2006, 03:45 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Ma. Home of the Red Sox!
Concierge Level: 8
Posts: 2,061
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Re: Name Etymology
DONNA
Gender-feminine
Useage-English
Pronounced-DAWN-a
Italian for "lady"
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03-22-2006, 04:23 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 1,742
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Re: Name Etymology
KRISTIN
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scandinavian, German
Pronounced: KRIS-tin [key]
Scandinavian and German form of CHRISTINA : This was the name of a Swedish queen of the 17th century who was interested in the arts and philosophy. She gave up her crown to become a Roman Catholic.
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03-22-2006, 04:35 PM
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Eileeeeeeen!™
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 28,861
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Re: Name Etymology
EILEEN
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish, English
Pronounced: ie-LEEN, ay-LEEN [key]
Anglicized form of EIBHLÍN
Irish form of both AVELINE (Old French pet form of AVILA) and EMELINE (Feminine form of EMIL)
and if you follow all those derivations, it basically has NO MEANING!! It kinda means rival and it kinda means bird.
What the....? Humph!!
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03-22-2006, 06:03 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: NC
Posts: 3,536
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Re: Name Etymology
MARIA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, German, Scandinavian, Dutch, Greek, Polish, Romanian, English, Finnish, Icelandic, Corsican
Other Scripts: Μαρι&#9 45; (Greek)
Pronounced: mah-REE-ah [key]
Latinate form of MARY. This was the name of several queens of Portugal. It was also borne by the 18th-century Habsburg queen Maria Theresa, whose inheritance of the domains of her father, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, began the War of the Austrian Succession.
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03-22-2006, 06:57 PM
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Batman's Gal/Mickey's Pal
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Owensboro, KY USA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 95,254
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Re: Name Etymology
CORNELIA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, German, Dutch, Romanian, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: kor-NEE-lee-a, kor-NEEL-ya [key]
Feminine form of CORNELIUS
Roman family name which possibly derives from the Latin element cornu "horn". In Acts in the New Testament Cornelius was a centurion who was directed by an angel to seek Peter. After speaking with Peter he became a Christian convert.
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03-22-2006, 07:27 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Long Island, NY
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 4,168
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Re: Name Etymology
Peggy
Feminine
usage: English
Here's the best part--nickname for Margaret! Always thought that was interesting.
Margaret is derived from the Greek meaning of "Pearl".
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03-22-2006, 11:06 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Stafford, CT
Posts: 928
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Re: Name Etymology
TRACY
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: TRAY-see [key]
From a surname which was taken from a Norman French place name meaning "domain belonging to THRACIUS". This name is also used as a short form of THERESA.
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03-23-2006, 12:33 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Houston
Posts: 5,162
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Re: Name Etymology
MELANIE
English, Dutch
Derived from Greek :bunchacrazygreekletters: (melaina) meaning "black, dark"... [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/ukid.gif[/img]
en ik wist helemaal niet dat het een Nederlandse naam was![img]/ubb/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]
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