Perhaps to better understand this name/nickname we must first see what it means in the English Translation: Hub, Fulcrum.

But in Italian, it also means: “ship’s boy” and that is why and where originally my nickname came from.. Working on ships, always in trouble, and always in the middle. I don’t think, my mates could have come up with anything better or more explicit than il Mozzo..

After migrating to Australia, and several months of ugly misspelling, it became first Bert than overnight Burt, apparently after Burt Reynolds moustache 😁 That’s the story, anyway!

So feel free to use either one you prefer as, on here, to keep both countries happy, I have been using both..