Do people ALWAYS spell your name wrong?

Oh goodness yes! I realize that my name is traditionally a boy's name and for some reason that just throws people off. My name is Johnie. It's pronounced just like Johnny. Typically that is how people mispell my name. Or else they decide that my name is Joanne or Joanie :confused3 Drives me crazy!

Now my last name is easy too. Or at least I think it is. But that throws people off as well. They either add an i to it to make me Italian I guess. Or they make it a geometric measurement :headache:
 
YEp - virtually EVERY time! My name is spelt JACQUI (actually it's Jacqui-Dawn but that just blows people's minds so I tend to stick to Jacqui!). I have Jackie, Jacky, Jakki, Jaqui, Jacquie, Jacki, Jackey, Jaquie and that's before we get to various versions of Jacqueline (which is NOT my name anyway!!!!) :mad: :headache:

(Just to confuse matters further my family call me Jadie - hence my user name - which is an adaption of my initials J. D. !!!!)

My surname is only 4 letters long but that too gets spelt wrong more often than not! :sad2:

I tried to break this cycle for my DD and we called her Gemma which is a fairly common name in the UK (most common in the 15-25 age group). Athough my DD is the only one in her primary school with the name it is still one that is pretty straightforward....or so we thought! :rolleyes1 Very commonly she gets called Jemma (with a J) but it's when we come to the USA that we really find problems...The Princesses at WDW and DLR have had several tries at getting it right but even when DD spells it out for them the accent confuses them and it still gets spelt wrong. We've had Jenna, Janna, Joanna, Jenny plus my personal favourite GAMMA! :confused3

I'm with the OP - what pees me off more than anything its when people reply to e-mails I've sent and STILL spell my name wrong when it's right there in the darn e-mail I sent!!!!!!:mad:
 
YES!! It's Tracy not Traci, Tracie, Tracey but TRACY!! Don't even get me started on my last name:rotfl:
 
My dd's anyway. Her aunt and uncle have yet to spell "Lexie" right in 4 years.

Cards, birthday gifts, Christmas gifts.....:confused3 :rolleyes:
 

My is spelled Olay fertang fertang bisquet barrell but is pronunced

Mango throatwarbler!
 
Yes, but both my first name & last name are hard to spell & pronounce. So I'm always impressed when people spell it right or say it right!
 
Yup. First and last name. Maiden name was always mangled too.

Funniest time was when DH did it last year. He was just distracted and typing an email to me, but he will NEVER live that down :rotfl:
 
Yup....but I blame my parents...Lara is from Dr. Zhivago...the world is used to Laura.

I remember having an argument with someone named "Sara" about how it should be pronounced...it's pronounced Lah-ra...she swore it should be Layr-a...like Sara with an L. I believe it got to fisticuffs...but we were 8.

I figure life is short, I answer to most anything and I don't sweat if if people add a "u".
 
Yep. I'm Tricia. Technically, I'm Patricia... so, just remove the "Pa" and you've got Tricia.

My oldest sister bought me a wine decanter and two glasses for a wedding present. The wine decanter had our last name on it. One wine glass had DHs first name, one wine glass had mine. Cute, except my glass said "Trisha". :sad2:

If you want to shorten Tricia to Trish, fine... but I am not Trisha, Tricca, Trica, Tricha, or any of the other variations.
 
My name is KRISTEN.

It is not Kristin, Christen, Kristina, Kristine, Christian, Kiersten, Kirsten, Krystin, Kristiana, or anything else like that. KRISTEN.

My friends use Krissa, Kiki, Kris, and Krissie as nicknames.
 
RV - My childhood best friend is a Trisha and she has the same problem as you only opposite - everyone thinks she's Tricia
 
RV - My childhood best friend is a Trisha and she has the same problem as you only opposite - everyone thinks she's Tricia

Clearly we should just exchange friends and family. Then everyone wouldn't get confused. :rotfl:
 
Yes, they always spell my name as Hiedi or Hedie or Hidei but never Heidi, people just have a mental block on my name!
 
My first name is rarely spelled wrong, but my last name always is. Pronounced wrong too. If I'm on the phone making an appointment or something and the receptionist asks for my last name, I just spell it right away. I don't bother saying it first. :lmao:
 

This is what bothers me: if I've written you an email and clearly signed my name, or I've sent you an IM when my name is clearly listed in the header of the IM window, or you've bothered to contact me by looking me up in our employee directory where my name is spelled right, some people still spell my name wrong, even after immediately seeing it spelled correctly.

This isn't the exact same thing, because it's not a from-birth issue, and is something that we know is not the norm so we don't get tweaky about it to the people.

But neither my husband nor I changed our last names when we got married. Then we hyphenated DS's name. So there are three last names in our household. We didn't tell MIL/FIL about it, because we knew they would flip out, so we made sure our bank would be cool taking gift checks in any name combo.

But on envelopes I'll put things like "The B***, W****, and B***-W*** family". I have told my family repeatedly. They have ASKED repeatedly. I have said, repeatedly, "oh, I know we're the odd ones, but I'm me, Robert's him, and Eamon is hyphenated". My dad decided to put my name as some sort of beneficiary on a pension, asked me for my address and social sec. number, and had already put my last name as hyphenated. Then he refused to change it, since he had already written it, and said it wouldn't matter...um, putting a name that isn't mine on a legal document won't matter? My SIL, who is a total sweetheart, decided that she hates that I don't have a credit card, and decided to send me one on her and my brother's account (her whole family has cards on their account, they are incredibly generous to their family), and even though I told her specifically, the card came today and it's hyphenated.

I have the same last name that I ALWAYS had. Nothing changed. It took me ages to get used to my friends' married names (they all changed them) and then get used to going back when half of them divorced and went back. I even remembered the one friend who kept her married name post-divorce b/c of their kids.

I know this isn't their issue, that we are the odd ones (it will get more odd if/when DH decides to hyphenate or flat out take my name, b/c he has realized he has no respect for his father's family or their name). But when they ask and I tell them, repeatedly....at some point...I do kind of expect that they could remember it. :confused3
 
Yes, but it's understandable.

My name is pronounced Ash-ling, so that's how people spell it, but it's properly spelled Aisling. Doesn't bother me, but the different pronunciations are funny...As-ling, I-ling Ahs-ling, A s s-ling...
 
People SPELL and SAY my name wrong.

My name is Meaghan, and it's said like MAYgan and not MEGan, some people even call me MEEgan, which I really hate. And nobody can spell it right!
 
Yes, my name is Cristy no Ch, no ie, no ey. I've never found anything with my name already printed on it correctly. Doesn't everyone know that ch says "ch" not "c"? :confused3

But but but....look at your own username to see that ch does make a hard c sound sometimes..... :)
 
yes people always spell my name wrong
I got over it in the 3rd grade...
totally blame my parents for having one of those names that will never appear on a keychain, pencil, coffee mug, etc...
 












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