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( Moniker)
"Moniker" (or "monicker") is a slang expression for "nickname", "pseudonym", or "cognomen". Typically, this title is used as a personal or professional name, instead of the person's given name, for works of art, music, books, or performances. Monikers are commonly used in small subcultures such as in railroad tramping (i.e.,"Baltimore Red") and on Internet message boards. Although there are various theories about the origin of the word, the most widely accepted is that it comes from Shelta, the cant language of Irish travellers. The word is believed to have derived from the Irish word ainm, and became munik in Shelta. It had spread to London as an English slang word for "name" by 1851. The first line of the Lord's Prayer translated into a modern version of Shelta is "Our gathra, who cradgies in the manyak-norch, we turry kerrath about your moniker."[1]
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