Esteemed Slap colleagues, I had the pleasure of bringing this conversation up to Geoff Rowley himself! At first he was reluctant to engage with a complete stranger, living up to his reputation, brushing aside my query with what felt like a familiar lamentation on the trappings of semantics in the Skate World. However, after disarming his reticence with a well-timed reference to Shakespeare's Shall I compare Thee to a Summer's Day, Rowley surprised me by diving into the etymology behind his name and surmising that the unique spelling pointed towards a Germanic connection.