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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

Sylloge (pronounced: sill-oh-zhee) is a anglicization of a latinization of the greek stem "sullog" (collect), as used, for example, in sullog-os: an assembly, concourse, meeting of persons.

It isn't in most dictionaries, but the (New Shorter) Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "a collection or summary" while the Merriam-Webster Thesaurus lists the following: Compendium, aperçu, digest, précis, sketch, survey, syllabus.

It's my username here since it was the name of my personal site.