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People misspelling your name
RedRose9191
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How often do people misspell your name?
It happens to me quite a lot, though I will admit in my case it's understandable. My name is more commonly spelt with a G, however mine is spelt with a J. Why my parents chose to do that I will never understand, though my dad has said that he thought that a J spelling was the more "modern" way of spelling my name. What makes it worse is that I have an unusual surname so people always misspell that too, so I'm used to have my full name spelt incorrectly on a regular basis.
It actually doesn't bother me most of the time, it's only when people have my name written in front of them yet still spell it wrong, like in an e-mail. I actually have a certificate from a course I did at school with both my first name and surname spelled incorrect. Everyone in my year group got one, so surely you'd think they would have had the correct spelling of my name in front of them if they were going off the school register?
How often do people spell your name wrong? Do you bother to correct it or just leave it?
It happens to me quite a lot, though I will admit in my case it's understandable. My name is more commonly spelt with a G, however mine is spelt with a J. Why my parents chose to do that I will never understand, though my dad has said that he thought that a J spelling was the more "modern" way of spelling my name. What makes it worse is that I have an unusual surname so people always misspell that too, so I'm used to have my full name spelt incorrectly on a regular basis.
It actually doesn't bother me most of the time, it's only when people have my name written in front of them yet still spell it wrong, like in an e-mail. I actually have a certificate from a course I did at school with both my first name and surname spelled incorrect. Everyone in my year group got one, so surely you'd think they would have had the correct spelling of my name in front of them if they were going off the school register?
How often do people spell your name wrong? Do you bother to correct it or just leave it?
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Me too. I have to correct people and tell them it's only one M.
Mine is similar, but to be honest it doesn't really annoy me. What gets me more is being called Caroline or Christine rather than incorrect spelling.
Both my maiden name and married names are unusual and always misspelt.
But I do know that many people hate to see their names misspelt, especially in a formal document, so I do try to get it right myself. Something my boss totally fails to understand - there are no laws of average on this, she always gets it wrong even though it clearly annoys people.
It was stranger than if they'd announced they were looking for a 'Joe Ness' and my surname was Jones.
Also, one of my sons is called Michael, and the number of times that people spell it Micheal drives me mad.
My first name is very often, well always mispronounced, my last name has two parts and both of these are misspelt and the last one mispronounced as well.
My middle name is straightforward, but I don't really use it.
Pronunciation however, a fair few people get it wrong; it rarely bothers me though.
My surname breaks people out into a cold sweat, it's 14 letters long with two Rs, two Is, two Ss, two Os.
I know the feeling.
I don't really get annoyed, I just automatically spell it out.
I get cheesed at the constant mispronunciation of my first name, when I've said it over and over, and even given people a small joke to help them remember.
Never mind.
-collins
-colon
-mr C. Lynn
Mr Con Lynn
Conlan
and many others. Pisses me off no end
Even so, I very recently had to return a certificate I got for a tedious training course at work because they misspelled my surname.