My father's given name was Maurice. His nickname was Moss. When you heard his Kerry born ma pronounce Maurice (Mar-iss, it was easy to hear how that nickname had stuck. I never knew that anyone else said Thomas a tatamus. My mother used to recite a poem, "Thomas a tatamus took 2 t's to tie to the top of 2 tall trees, now how many t's in that? (2 of course) Ray, You brought back many memories with the names we called our siblings. Also my late eldest brother was named Thomas but what was I told...he was Thomas-a-titamus. And poor late Maurice was always called Moggie!! My poor Irish mum would only shake her head at Dads jokes. I remember Mum calling her brother Maurice, "Mossie." Mention that word around here and we look for the spray!! > word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message