Do people ALWAYS spell your name wrong?

[wic0721]

My MIL spells my name Kellie, it's KELLY. Even my husband gets mad at her for spelling it like that. We've been together for 10 years. He asked her one time why she always spells my name like that. She said that's the girls way of spelling it.

My daughters name IS Kellie, and everyone spells it either Kelly or Kelli or Kellee. I wont' even start on our last name, that's just a bad spelling disaster!

I know how you feel about the MIL spelling your name wrong, my name is Kathy and on 2 of the 3 christmas presents I received from her this year it was spelled wrong....Kathi, Kathe? Go figure, I've only been a part of her family for 11 years now!

 

[GirTheGecko]

People always want to put an 'i' at the end of my last name, it's an 'e.'

Others always misread my name on my name tag, so, H-o-p-e is now the spelling for Holly, Heather, and Julia. It's right in front of you!

 

[delilah]

My real name is "Diane", spelled the common,normal way that name is spelled. The ex-principal of my son's school, who is my friend, also, always calls me "Diana". I corrected her once, but, don't make a fuss about it because I like her very much, and don't want to offend her.

I'm Catholic, also, and was baptized as "Diane Marie". Our priest, who was the pastor of our church from before I was born until we moved away when I was 20, always said that while there may not have been an official St. Diane canonized by the church with an official feast day, surely in the past 2000 years, there has been a St. Diane. So, he would readily baptize any person with a reasonable name.

My last name is another issue. It is originally Ukrainian/Polish, and so is a transliteration from another alphabet. It is spelled phonetically, and is pronounced just exactly as it is spelled. Very simple. It amazes me how people can mispronounce something that is pronounced just exactly it is spelled if you follow the usual, customary spelling rules that we all were taught in early elementary school.

On the other hand, I taught high school chemistry briefly. I had a girl in class at one time whose name was "Renae". I mispronounced that name, because I had never seen that particular variant of "Renee". Now I know. In the same class, I had a girl named "Tonya", which, she explained to me, I mispronounced. When I speaK, I wouldn't distringuish in pronunciation between "Tanya" and "Tonya". I would roughly pronounce them both "Tahn-ya". But, the girl in question told me that her name was pronounced "Toney-ya". And "Tanya" should be pronounced "Tan-ya". Whatever. Depends on where you're from.

 

[leanan]

Mine definitely is. Corbin? Who names a girl Corbin?

I had these 4 budgies. I was told one was a boy so I named it Corbin. It turned out to be a girl. I never changed the name because I was used to calling it Corbin. In my defense I had owned it over a year by the time it decided to lay eggs.

 

[julie_yet]

In grade school there was a popular girl that everyone liked named Julia so all her friends called me Julia as well. I was always correcting them. My last name is constantly mispronounced. How do you mistake Tyler for Taylor?

 

[Geoff_M]

<---- What do you think??? The only time people have gotten it right on a regular basis was when I was in the UK. I so wanted to move there!

Here, it's amazing the number of times people write it down wrong. It doesn't matter if I say "My name is 'Geoff', with a 'G'" or even "My name is 'G-e-o-f-f'"... 25% of the time they still write down "Jeff".

I have also noticed that the closer I get to either the east or west coast of the US, the accuracy rate goes up!

 

[debaudrn]

Two DD's. #1 is Aimee and #2 is Emilie.
Funniest thing is DH had an uncle Aime and his dad was Emile. Both old French names and DD's are NOT named after either of them. I never even knew about Uncle Aime until DD was 10, he had died years before I met my husband.
Now my son, plain ole Daniel but don't you dare call him Danny!
Me, I'm officially "Debra"!

 

[Eeyore's Tailfinder]

ITA, this just irks me big time!!

My name is HAYLEY and on another Disney Forum, my name is my screen name. You wouldn't believe the amount of people who call my HALEY. Argh!! Look and read people, it's not hard.

Exactly the same with e-mail. I'm arranging something at work at the moment and have been signing off with Ms Hayley LastName. I got a reply today to a Mr Haley LastName.

The first thing I do when I address someone is make sure I get their name right!!

To be fair, my DBF gets it worse off than me. His name is Elfyn (pronounced Elv-in) which is a Welsh name. On our last trip to Florida he got called Alex, Kevin and was even checked into WDW under the name of Rhy (his middle name is Rhys - also Welsh) - READ people, read!!

 

[IHeartTink04]

I have had to deal with this my whole life my name is Krystin, how many ways are there to spell Krystin? About a million! Not only is there a million ways to spell me name, it is spelled very unusually! A lot of people don't really care how to spell it but it makes me feel special when they do know how!

 

[moppety]

I had these 4 budgies. I was told one was a boy so I named it Corbin. It turned out to be a girl. I never changed the name because I was used to calling it Corbin. In my defense I had owned it over a year by the time it decided to lay eggs.

 

[mrsstats]

My name is Denice, not Denise. I have stopped correcting it except if it is for a legal or medical document. It really bothered my mother when she was alive is someone got it wrong. when my dad died it was wrong in his obituary. My mom was very upset and we had to make sure she didnt say anything to the funeral director.

 

[macraven]

Isn't everything mom's fault?

it's always MOM's fault........



mom was wacko when she gave birth to me.
she named me Thomas
I'm a female.


birth certificate changed by dad when she wasn't looking........

 

[tonilea]

All the time! In the seventh grade it was spelled wrong and I was enrolled in boy's PE. I few years later, I might have really enjoyed that, but at the time it was painfully embarassing!

And just because it is weird, I was working as a receptionist, alot of people called me Connie. How the heck do you get Connie out of Toni?

 

[Pirate Me]

Ah, people consistently spell my name wrong. I'll always correct them. It does get annoying, especially when it's the same people asking over again!

 

[DevilDuckie]

My company preaches "Respect for Individuals" as one of our core values. Would that not include learning how to spell my name?

Are names just not important to some people?

Do you have a name that's spelled differently? Can you relate?

This pissed me off when I worked outside of the home. My name (Susanna) rhymes with Madonna. It does not rhyme with banana. I hit a point where I refused to respond to my manager because after a year of working for her I could only assume that if she called the wrong name she was talking to someone else. (This is the same witch who incurred my wrath by calling me for no pressing reason when I was a) on vacation b) at Disneyland and c) In the middle of lunch at Club 33. I loathed that woman.) I also took to calling my co-worker Patty "Pamela" because I was not "Sue-Zon" or "Suzanne". I even wrote "RHYMES WITH MADONNA" on my white board and would point at it when people who knew better called me the wrong name.


This sort of behavior shows a complete lack of respect for the person you're working with. It says that they are not important enough for you to bother learning to say or spell their name correctly.

 

[loribell]

it's always MOM's fault........



mom was wacko when she gave birth to me.
she named me Thomas
I'm a female.


birth certificate changed by dad when she wasn't looking........

 

[VolleyballQt07]

Yes. My name is Britni. I hate when people I've known for a long time still spell my name wrong! I have friends that I haven't known that long and they already can spell my name but I have some friends who still have no clue how to spell it and I've known them for a while.

 

[Disney Doll]

My name is Patty, with a "Y" at the end.

Often I get Patti.

Sometimes I get Pattie (like a hamburger pattie).

I have even gotten Paddy.

It doesn't bother me too much. I have been a medical nurse in a city hospital for 25 years...I have been called worse!!!!

 

[Liberty Belle]

People usually get my first name right (Eden), though I've been called Edna and Enid more than once or twice. They always mess up my last name, though.

When I was little, they would always think my first name was my last name (and, I suppose, understandably so). This conversation occurred often: "What's your first name?" "Eden." "No, your first name." "My first name is Eden." "Eden is your first name?"

 

[disney100666]

My name is Bridget and almost everyone spells it wrong. they always write "Briget" "Bridgette" "Bridgett". I just tell people it's "Bridge" with a "T"