How is your name commonly misspelled (one for my peeps who could never buy a bicycle license plate w/their weird name on it)

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Abbi
Abbey
Abby
Abi
Abigail
Fuckface

two Bs in for short or for long + an i and an e (mom's idea) = no plate for a li'l xtian-name Abbott
(mom also had the imaginative idea that my middle name should be pronounced 'lay')

how is abbott formed (Abbott), Monday, 5 April 2010 02:28 (fifteen years ago)

Sorry people with names like "John" and "Chris" and "Jennifer" and "Mohammed."

how is abbott formed (Abbott), Monday, 5 April 2010 02:30 (fifteen years ago)

Rimless

Aimless, Monday, 5 April 2010 02:31 (fifteen years ago)

Zac (RONG)
Zak (caveman)
Zack (short for Zackary, I guess? which reminds me of the worst one of all, which is-
Zackary (wtf? Zackary? c'mon.)

biologically wrong (Z S), Monday, 5 April 2010 02:38 (fifteen years ago)

I have known two Zack's in my life and it is my preferred way of spelling it

ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Monday, 5 April 2010 02:39 (fifteen years ago)

Everyone knows Zak refers not to a human man, but to a tiny waffle-edged polygonal toy used to build flexible and imaginative structures.

how is abbott formed (Abbott), Monday, 5 April 2010 02:41 (fifteen years ago)

ha i had a friend in grade school named zak

maderator (k3vin k.), Monday, 5 April 2010 02:42 (fifteen years ago)

apparently there are some ppl in the world who think my name is spelled Jordon http://i43.tinypic.com/zmfmva.jpg

jihad mane (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 April 2010 02:47 (fifteen years ago)

my friend james stewart (not the actor) once wrote off to join some sort of mailing list or whatever and later received post addressed to Janek Stendry.

404s & Heartbreak (jim in glasgow), Monday, 5 April 2010 02:49 (fifteen years ago)

Though there are a few ways to spell it that are all kosher, depending on country, some people insist on chucking a c in there, even when writing to me email address that obviously has the correct/preferred spelling. wtf?

Uncontrollable Purge (S-), Monday, 5 April 2010 05:21 (fifteen years ago)

me=my

Uncontrollable Purge (S-), Monday, 5 April 2010 05:21 (fifteen years ago)

my names too familiar and simple to have ever been misspelled; but parents & sister have 7 (or more) legit alternates between 'em: Allan/Allen/Alan/Laurie/Lori/Judy/Judie are the most ubiquitous

Half lies and gorilla dust (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 5 April 2010 08:15 (fifteen years ago)

Danny
Dannie
Dani
Danni

ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Monday, 5 April 2010 08:34 (fifteen years ago)

I'm kate with a k, but catherine with a c, because cate with a c looks dumb. I have to explain this frequently, even though everyone agrees.

kate78, Monday, 5 April 2010 08:37 (fifteen years ago)

tired of explaining this, I used to think about switching to cate or cait, but it's too late for that.

kate78, Monday, 5 April 2010 08:38 (fifteen years ago)

Micheal

caek, Monday, 5 April 2010 08:44 (fifteen years ago)

My friend's middle child is a Catherine Katie. Up until the child was a year old, friend kept toying with the idea of legally changing it to Katharine but they never went ahead with it.

What drives me nuts: having furnished a zillion examples of my correctly spelled name to someone and getting 'hi Susie' from them in return.

show us on the doll where the hotdish was served (suzy), Monday, 5 April 2010 08:46 (fifteen years ago)

I should start a facebook group for Catherine/Katies.

kate78, Monday, 5 April 2010 09:09 (fifteen years ago)

that was a good meal - I feel cated

ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Monday, 5 April 2010 09:16 (fifteen years ago)

Tracey
Traci
Tracie

My name is perpetually mispelt, I've given up caring.

Gay nineties icecream party (Trayce), Monday, 5 April 2010 09:21 (fifteen years ago)

My name doesn't generally get misspelled though have had ppl insist my name is really Nathaniel. Like I don't know what my own name is, or am trying to fool them. I mean, dude.

SUPER USA (╓abies), Monday, 5 April 2010 09:29 (fifteen years ago)

amanada - because people are stupid or their fingers get carried away when typing
amander - because people are stupid and british

salsa sharkshavin (salsa shark), Monday, 5 April 2010 18:43 (fifteen years ago)

my wife, Gizella, is a long-time sufferer of this. There are never any belt buckles/pins/license plates/signs/jewelry/anything with her name on it. She has gotten:

Grizolda (my personal favorite)
Grizelda
Gisele
Giselle
Gazelle

etc

kulinary gangsta (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 April 2010 18:46 (fifteen years ago)

(to make it work, prior to marrying me her last name was a very common male first name, so that made matters 100x worse)

kulinary gangsta (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 April 2010 18:48 (fifteen years ago)

"work = worse

kulinary gangsta (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 April 2010 18:48 (fifteen years ago)

Okay but when you start at "Gizella", it's not like future misspellings are a long ways down the road.

Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Monday, 5 April 2010 18:49 (fifteen years ago)

I have no problem with people misspelling my name 'Jon' as 'John', common enough mistake. But it drives me crazy when I've engaged in e-mail correspondence with someone for months and they still never bother to spell it correctly, despite it being in my both the address itself and my signature.

he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 5 April 2010 18:49 (fifteen years ago)

amander - because people are stupid and british

LOL really? that's pretty amazing. am calling you 'sal' from now on

william mcgonadal's tay ridge disaster (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 April 2010 18:51 (fifteen years ago)

People really really want to transpose the vowels in my last name, I don't understand why. But no, my first name was never avail on notebooks, mugs, children's sweatshirts or backpacks, or whatever.

For the record, it's G 1 R V @ N.

xp Yes, I've gotten emails from people who had to type my name into the address line, and whom I've worked with for possibly months, who call me Lauren.

Actually, a lot of people call me Lauren.

Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Monday, 5 April 2010 18:51 (fifteen years ago)

haha salsa shark me too (amanda)
i've also gotten armando

figgy pudding (La Lechera), Monday, 5 April 2010 18:52 (fifteen years ago)

actual lols at "amander" and "armando"

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 18:53 (fifteen years ago)

Amanda is a totally common name! How can you eff that up?

kate78, Monday, 5 April 2010 18:54 (fifteen years ago)

alec, sometimes :(

occasionally people (who don't know me well) try to be overfamiliar and call me al. they get air.

my surname gets it way worse though obv

لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 5 April 2010 18:55 (fifteen years ago)

there was something in the air that night
the stars were bright
Armando

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 18:56 (fifteen years ago)

not a misspelling, but I get called "Dave" and "David" a LOT, which is just weird

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 18:56 (fifteen years ago)

my surname gets it way worse though obv

Yeah, just curious: why isn't the P capped?

jam master (jaymc), Monday, 5 April 2010 18:57 (fifteen years ago)

hahahahahaha @ HI DERE being called Dave

william mcgonadal's tay ridge disaster (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 April 2010 18:58 (fifteen years ago)

this thread is blowing my mind slightly

william mcgonadal's tay ridge disaster (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 April 2010 18:58 (fifteen years ago)

Matt

Mr. Que, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:00 (fifteen years ago)

it just isn't! anglicisation, i guess, you have to go back a couple of generations on my dad's side to get to actual scots who lived in scotland.

you'd think that with elle macpherson and her uncapped p being the most famous example of my surname, people would be less confused, but apparently not.

xps

لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:01 (fifteen years ago)

hahaha

I think Que that you are suffering from the same syndrome as me, where ppl just go "oh it's a common name, starts with [letter]" and habitually guess/assume/blurt out the wrong one

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:02 (fifteen years ago)

Well yeah I'm not going to say I've never had to ask myself "SHIT did she say Shelly or Shari? Or Lisa or Leslie? Now she's totally going to know that I really didn't clock meeting her at all and I couldn't care less what her name is."

Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:04 (fifteen years ago)

"jeff"

goole, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:04 (fifteen years ago)

I get Samantha and Anna a lot too, but that's not really spelling.

figgy pudding (La Lechera), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:05 (fifteen years ago)

My wife had a high school friend named Jennifer who had someone write her name in a yearbook as "Jenniful" due to completely mishearing her name thanks to heavy Memphis accents.

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:06 (fifteen years ago)

Ian
Iian

FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:07 (fifteen years ago)

"Iian"? Really?

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:07 (fifteen years ago)

i work at a nursery in the basement of a church, and when they printed me a name-tag it read "sam gvtvy." needless to say there are vowels in my name.

samosa gibreel, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:09 (fifteen years ago)

Jason

rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:10 (fifteen years ago)

I think Que that you are suffering from the same syndrome as me, where ppl just go "oh it's a common name, starts with letter" and habitually guess/assume/blurt out the wrong one

Totally. But sometimes I think the confusion comes from the fact that: "Hey, they're both Apostles."

Mr. Que, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:11 (fifteen years ago)

xxxpost several times when I've pointed out that it's Iain with two Is (which I've since stopped doing), which I almost understand, but I less understood the seemingly perfectly literate person who through dozens of e-mail exchanges never deviated from it.

FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:11 (fifteen years ago)

omg that is amazing

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:12 (fifteen years ago)

so that's "iian" and not "Lian", right?

what the hell

goole, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:14 (fifteen years ago)

I'm gonna take you by the hand
and make you understand
ARMANDO

figgy pudding (La Lechera), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:14 (fifteen years ago)

HAHAHA

Mr. Que, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:15 (fifteen years ago)

had I not just changed my display name, I would totally be rocking "Iian with two Is"

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:15 (fifteen years ago)

my coworker has a really uncommon first name and people fuck it up soooooo much, i feel kind of bad for her, b/c it drives her crazy. i don't mind being called the wrong name at all, but my name is super common. i kind of wonder, though, if i would care more if i had an unusual name, i kind of doubt it?

Mr. Que, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:17 (fifteen years ago)

everyone should redouble the first vowel in their name for s&g imo

william mcgonadal's tay ridge disaster (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:18 (fifteen years ago)

I've told this story a couple of times on ILX but my brother, whose name is Darrell, once accidentally signed into a ski race under the perplexing name "Barvel" because his signature was so terrible.

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:19 (fifteen years ago)

there were never, ever any theresa license plates! only teresa. ugh. it looks so ugly.

tehresa, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:19 (fifteen years ago)

'jon'

mookieproof, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:20 (fifteen years ago)

i get called tracy all the time, too.

tehresa, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:20 (fifteen years ago)

I went to high school with a "Treasa" who would stab you if you got her name wrong

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:21 (fifteen years ago)

About 75% of people put an 's' on the end of my surname. I feel like I'm living a Lee & Herring joke up there with Tony Blairs, Trivial Pursuits etc etc. The thing is adding an 's' to the word in normal language wouldn't pluralise it so it's completely nonsensical!

Not the real Village People, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:22 (fifteen years ago)

none dare call her treasa

goole, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:22 (fifteen years ago)

in the 'too much time on ilx' dept, i now confuse what is the actual spelling of theresa/tehresa and tracey/trayce

mookieproof, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:23 (fifteen years ago)

had a babysitter who spelled it treesa

tehresa, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:24 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.mylife.com/c-590103130

maybe he froze to death in the snow

nakhchivan, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:27 (fifteen years ago)

alec, sometimes :(

Lex, why :( if i may ask? (Other than, obviously, it's not your name.)

Just wondering, as Alec is what wife/I named our son.

I turn it up when I hear the banjo (Dan Peterson), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:42 (fifteen years ago)

awesome, you are raising a Baldwin brother

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:44 (fifteen years ago)

there were never, ever any theresa license plates! only teresa. ugh. it looks so ugly.

No offense, tza, but I've always thought that Teresa was a much more attractive spelling than Theresa!

jam master (jaymc), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:45 (fifteen years ago)

people usually ask, tbh, but i get 'dara' a lot- which is the name on my birth cert anyway.

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:45 (fifteen years ago)

when I lived in the south ppl used to ask if my name was spelled edd

鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:45 (fifteen years ago)

should've said "no, it's got 3 d's"

鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:46 (fifteen years ago)

Have seen/been called all of these-

Sameul
Samull
Samual
Sameal
Samuil
Sammie
Sammy
Samantha
Steven (thank you local paper)
Ross, Sian (thank you father for mistaking me for your daughter).
Some other shit.

he might have even have gone in. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:47 (fifteen years ago)

Lex, why :( if i may ask? (Other than, obviously, it's not your name.)

i think of it as an old-mannish kind of name, which might be a uk thing. (that, or the pendulum's about to swing back.) plus saying it out loud feels a bit...incomplete. also, i'm very attached to having an x in my name.

لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:48 (fifteen years ago)

Some English-speakers seem to spell my name either "Tuomos" or "Toumas", I'm not sure why. At first I thought the "os" replacing "as" was because it sounded more masculine, but then I realized "Thomas" (which is pretty much the English equivalent of "Tuomas") is a perfectly common name in English-speaking countries, and I've never seen anyone spell it "Thomos".

Tuomas, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:48 (fifteen years ago)

there is a reason no one spells it "Thomos"

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:49 (fifteen years ago)

a reason, I hope, that would be obvious once you spend a few seconds looking at the hypothetical name "Thomos"

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:50 (fifteen years ago)

At first I thought the "os" replacing "as" was because it sounded more masculine

TUOMOS, SLAYER OF WILDEBEEST

william mcgonadal's tay ridge disaster (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:50 (fifteen years ago)

Well yeah, but my point was just that male names ending with "-as" aren't that weird in English, so it can't be the reason for "Tuomos".

Tuomas, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:51 (fifteen years ago)

(xx-post)

Tuomas, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:51 (fifteen years ago)

Spas

goole, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:51 (fifteen years ago)

confusion with 'luomo'?

nakhchivan, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:52 (fifteen years ago)

tuomos def

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:52 (fifteen years ago)

Embarrassingly (esp from my own father): Micheal.

Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:52 (fifteen years ago)

I always get Goodwin, it's Godwin.
after 37 years of people spelling/saying it wrong, you kinda get grumpy about it.

not_goodwin, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:53 (fifteen years ago)

at least people do not call you Godwit; that is a wading-bird!

william mcgonadal's tay ridge disaster (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:54 (fifteen years ago)

if only there was a law preventing such idiocy

nakhchivan, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:54 (fifteen years ago)

haha nakchchivan

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:55 (fifteen years ago)

lol @ me and my rogue spelling

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:56 (fifteen years ago)

i spelt it 'nakhchivian' a few times iirc

william mcgonadal's tay ridge disaster (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:56 (fifteen years ago)

michéal arah conas atá tú a mhic?

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:56 (fifteen years ago)

just thought it was chavchicken til now tbh

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:57 (fifteen years ago)

I'd actually typed "nakchavian" and gone back and "fixed" it

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:58 (fifteen years ago)

sometimes i get called naxçıvan
occupational hazard of being a nonratified exclave

nakhchivan, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:58 (fifteen years ago)

Godwit would be a welcome change.
i really want to lay into people when they get it wrong, i see red every time.
i always instantly correct them!

not_goodwin, Monday, 5 April 2010 19:58 (fifteen years ago)

alisa, asia, elsa, ilsa, aisla.

Five letters, two syllables, how fucking wrong can you go, really?

ailsa, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:03 (fifteen years ago)

^^^looooool that name is asking for trouble

sometimes i get called naxçıvan
occupational hazard of being a nonratified exclave

dude seriously I have meant to ask you this before but how many novels have you written

(my own name is often mispronounced but hardly ever misspelt - worst has probably been 'Loui')

william mcgonadal's tay ridge disaster (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:03 (fifteen years ago)

?

nakhchivan, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:04 (fifteen years ago)

..."bicycle license plate?"

drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:05 (fifteen years ago)

michéal arah conas atá tú a mhic?

I love how that comes out in Irish as Meehole.

Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:05 (fifteen years ago)

I looked at the birth register for Scotland for 2009, several idiots have actually christened their kids aisla and alisa, which isn't going to help my case that they aren't actually names whereas ailsa is.

ailsa, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:05 (fifteen years ago)

oh man my sister has the worst time w/this

drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:06 (fifteen years ago)

Áin3 (proofed, obv)

drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:06 (fifteen years ago)

There are actually people in the world who believe that my perfectly common name is spelled "Fill" rather than "Phil."

Obama, Wellstone and Darwinfish, Attorneys (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:06 (fifteen years ago)

Meechawl would be a little fairer but yeah you can do that too with it

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:07 (fifteen years ago)

there's a girl in my class called this! Pronounced Anya in her case xxp

william mcgonadal's tay ridge disaster (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:07 (fifteen years ago)

LJ - yes, but try having that name as an elementary school kid in rural minnesota

drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:08 (fifteen years ago)

lol irish :-/

drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:08 (fifteen years ago)

i just say "justin spelled wrong with an e" for my last name now when i have to specify, although that usually follows the "last name?" "justen" "NO, YOUR LAST NAME" exchange.

HOT DISH THYME MACHINE (jjjusten), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:10 (fifteen years ago)

I looked at the birth register for Scotland for 2009, several idiots have actually christened their kids aisla and alisa, which isn't going to help my case that they aren't actually names whereas ailsa is.

Alisa is a name in Finland! (And some other countries too, I'd assume.)

Tuomas, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:10 (fifteen years ago)

i've definitely met an alisa (US)

only a handful of ppl here know my last name but it's very frequently misspelled, to the point where i have decided my memoirs will be titled Two L's, Two C's, No H

bieber benz or bentley (donna rouge), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:11 (fifteen years ago)

there are 713 alisa's in uk
(how many novels have you written = none)

nakhchivan, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:11 (fifteen years ago)

yeah was gonna say that obviously there's nothing strange about áine round my neck of the woods gbx

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:11 (fifteen years ago)

'there are 713 alisa's in the uk'

should be the opening line of ur 1st imo

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:11 (fifteen years ago)

xp to gbx: That would be "Any", obv. Rhymes with "Amy".

Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:12 (fifteen years ago)

full disclosure, what i had typed was 'there'd be nothing strange to see an aine around my parts' and then i reconsidered.

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:13 (fifteen years ago)

?

― nakhchivan, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:04 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

ok I googled your handle and am consuming humble pie - but you have a singular linguistic flourish that I remain convinced is in authorship of substantial works

there was a russian girl at uni with me called alisa

lol dmac

william mcgonadal's tay ridge disaster (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:13 (fifteen years ago)

I've just remembered how, in primary school, aged about 10, when making labels for our trays, my friend Brian spent half an hour designing and elaborately colouring a label with 'Brain' written on it. O how we laughed.

FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:14 (fifteen years ago)

gbx I cannot even fathom how ppl dealt with your sister's name, given that they had difficulties with names like "Lara"

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:14 (fifteen years ago)

mine gets misspelled a lot, too. first name: always put an "e" where the "a" should be, which i sorta understandable if you've never seen the name before. last name: is one of the most phonetically spelled last names going, but a "c" always ends up where the "k" should be. moreover, ppl reading it aloud always get deceived by its simplicity, and pronounce the vowel sound with a long "o" instead of an "ow", because it looks juuuuuuuust ethnic enough that it can't ~possibly~ sound the way it's spelled

xp laurel otm: that's exactly how it got pronounced like 70% of the time. other 30%: long-"a" ANE

drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:15 (fifteen years ago)

I just realized now that as a kid I could have had my full (mispelled) legal name on my bike using multiple license plates.

HOT DISH THYME MACHINE (jjjusten), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:16 (fifteen years ago)

imagine my pleasure, however, when i learned in HS french class that "aine" means GROIN

drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:16 (fifteen years ago)

MY CHILDHOOD WAS WASTED

HOT DISH THYME MACHINE (jjjusten), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:17 (fifteen years ago)

Meechawl would be a little fairer but yeah you can do that too with it

I know some Irish dudes, it's my transcritpion that's dodgy. My ex-wife's mother used to call me Mickael, pronounced Mee Ka Ell. It never failed to annoy me.

Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:17 (fifteen years ago)

surname gets misspelled a lot with an s instead of a z, that's about it.

404s & Heartbreak (jim in glasgow), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:18 (fifteen years ago)

I get Erika a lot and lately Ericka.

One time I got a letter at my old job addressed to Aqua Backrat. That was kind of awesome tho.

t(o_o)t (ENBB), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:19 (fifteen years ago)

ppl in Uganda almost uniformly appended an "s" to my first name, too, it was weird.

xp omg @ aqua backrat

drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:19 (fifteen years ago)

that is BEYOND AWESOME

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:19 (fifteen years ago)

I once went on a date with an Icelandic exchange student called "Auður"... She tried to teach me to pronounce her name, I think it went something like "oi-th-er". She told every non-Icelander to call her "Magga". I could see why.

Tuomas, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:19 (fifteen years ago)

apparently yr love of otters precedes you

xp

drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:20 (fifteen years ago)

are there many mikaël's in france or is the hapless silvestre the only one?

there's nothing significant about my login btw, completely random choice and i haven't used it elsewhere x...p

nakhchivan, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:20 (fifteen years ago)

Auður? I barely knew her

william mcgonadal's tay ridge disaster (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:21 (fifteen years ago)

ladies and gentlemen, Louse Jaeger

drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:22 (fifteen years ago)

Audur Capital (Auður Capital) is a financial service company, founded in 2007 by two Icelandic business women, with the aim of incorporating feminine values into finance.

there was an article in the guardian by louise taylor a few months ago unhelpfully bylined 'lousie'

nakhchivan, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:23 (fifteen years ago)

marc colman

are we human or are we dancer (m coleman), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:23 (fifteen years ago)

tim. or tony.

tomofthenest, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:24 (fifteen years ago)

have been called 'Lousi' before, but only deliberately

also nakhchivan you could have gone for the infinitely snappier Nagorno-Karabakh

william mcgonadal's tay ridge disaster (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:25 (fifteen years ago)

still get mail for author marc eliot. have also been called, to my face, mike and inexplicably steve

are we human or are we dancer (m coleman), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:25 (fifteen years ago)

hey STEVE

drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:26 (fifteen years ago)

alright steve?

http://www.phill.co.uk/comedy/fools/fools14.jpg

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:27 (fifteen years ago)

also apparently i have an inability to pronounce "anthony" anything other than "antony"

drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:28 (fifteen years ago)

how else would you pronounce it?

tomofthenest, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:28 (fifteen years ago)

if yr jennifer melfi, as spelt

nakhchivan, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:29 (fifteen years ago)

There were several African-American guys in my college dorm who were all my class and about my height, so even though we looked nothing alike, we all got called each other's name, so there was a period of several years where I was called Mike, Malcolm and Kendall. (ftr, we looked nothing alike)

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:30 (fifteen years ago)

are there many mikaël's in france or is the hapless silvestre the only one?

There are a few, though not as many as the once ubiquitous Michel. I have met female Michaels, btw. Interesting breed.

Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:30 (fifteen years ago)

lady colin campbell to thread

william mcgonadal's tay ridge disaster (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:31 (fifteen years ago)

how else would you pronounce it?

― tomofthenest, Monday, April 5, 2010 3:28 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

"anTHony"

that's how we do in AMERICA

drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:31 (fifteen years ago)

Mike, Malcolm and Kendall.

to be fair on that last one, "Kendall" contains all the letters of your name. i mean, i can see that one, you know?

Mr. Que, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:31 (fifteen years ago)

girl named michael went to my lol college and was slamming iirc

drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:32 (fifteen years ago)

did u call her Girl Michael

Mr. Que, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:32 (fifteen years ago)

nah usually just swooned

drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:32 (fifteen years ago)

Kendall was also the dude who looked the least like me, seeing as he was light to the point of actually being yellow and kind of looked like a Treasure Troll.

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:33 (fifteen years ago)

michael is one of the few hebrew names that's best in anglicized form imho though 'misha' is quite good too

nakhchivan, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:34 (fifteen years ago)

I agree with what Ogmar is saying ― Frank Kogan

I think Ogmore is right - mei

ogmor, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:35 (fifteen years ago)

oh no I gised a treasure troll and got this : http://13gb.com/media/images/capturedtrolls.jpg

tomofthenest, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:35 (fifteen years ago)

(might not be 100% sfw i guess)

tomofthenest, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:36 (fifteen years ago)

ok lol

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:39 (fifteen years ago)

never a good idea to GIS treasure troll

Mr. Que, Monday, 5 April 2010 20:40 (fifteen years ago)

LOL

Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Monday, 5 April 2010 20:41 (fifteen years ago)

Wait I forgot that ppl get my surname wrong sometimes. It's never a real name resembling mine, like Lind, always something that no one is every really named, like Lung, or Land.

SUPER USA (╓abies), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:39 (fifteen years ago)

I often get either Nasif or Nazir.

tomofthenest, Monday, 5 April 2010 21:46 (fifteen years ago)

Poor Michael Z. Land :(

My boyfriend is having a tough time of having moved to England with his Irish name-spelling with a silent letter at the start. No matter how often I say his name to them, my relatives still randomly settle for anything else with a vowel at the start and roughly the same length.

My name is boring old "Rebecca" (most common girls' name in 80s UK, that being where and when I'm from), so not usually a problem, but people occasionally put the wrong number of Bs in. And I feel like the only Rebecca not to abbreviate it, cz I get "Becky" a lot. Mostly I'm just called "Rachel" instead though.

falling while carrying an owl (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:47 (fifteen years ago)

there's a comic book artist named Greg Land

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:47 (fifteen years ago)

Uh, the Michael Z. Land thing was an xpost regarding Land not being a real surname, which probably only made sense in my head anyway, but definitely made no sense as an unmarked xpost.

(xpost-xpost)

falling while carrying an owl (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:48 (fifteen years ago)

No one ever spells my name right. Half the time, even when replying to an e-mail where my name is clearly displayed, people will misspell it. Granted, it's a weird spelling, but it always seemed kind of a logical spelling to me.

SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 5 April 2010 21:55 (fifteen years ago)

Female Michael (not slamming):
http://www.suntimes.com/news/sneed/index.html

jam master (jaymc), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:06 (fifteen years ago)

I knew a super-hot female Ryan, though. Might've been Ryanne, I don't remember.

jam master (jaymc), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

tiernan

plax (ico), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

uh is that miseplled?

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:11 (fifteen years ago)

oh the irony but regardless, isn't that how you spell it?

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:12 (fifteen years ago)

it's tiarnan and you're not getting away with that easily dude

uh is that miseplled? (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:12 (fifteen years ago)

technically the first 'a' has an acute accent on it but lol ethnics tbh

uh is that miseplled? (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:13 (fifteen years ago)

boy do i feel sheepish

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:20 (fifteen years ago)

lol its the second a!

plax (ico), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:21 (fifteen years ago)

tiarnán

plax (ico), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:21 (fifteen years ago)

I guess we're all feeling a bit sheepish, some more than others

uh is that miseplled? (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:23 (fifteen years ago)

yeah i guess those of us lecturing others feel the most sheepish huh

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:24 (fifteen years ago)

classical education my ass

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:24 (fifteen years ago)

Land is a great last name, actually. Like I'm a theme park.

And I am a theme park.

SUPER USA (╓abies), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:42 (fifteen years ago)

tiarnán og

nakhchivan, Monday, 5 April 2010 22:43 (fifteen years ago)

My first name is never a problem (though I have had at least one person assume the default spelling is "geoff" which seems crazy)

My surname though is super uncommon, to the degree that all 13 or so people in the US with the same name are known relatives. I've heard from a couple people from Finland with the same surname and they've told me it's uncommon enough there that we're probably related also.

joygoat, Monday, 5 April 2010 22:44 (fifteen years ago)

xp i was gonna make that but i'm pretty sure he'll just get cross now

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:44 (fifteen years ago)

I would automatically go for Geoff as a first guess, but that's maybe just a UK thing?

ailsa, Monday, 5 April 2010 22:45 (fifteen years ago)

In the US I have yet to meet anyone who spells it Geoff compared with the dozens of Jeffs.

joygoat, Monday, 5 April 2010 22:46 (fifteen years ago)

eh, its better than chernobyl which was my nickname for one glorious summer

plax (ico), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:47 (fifteen years ago)

"Geoff" always felt like a weird spelling to me. Gee-off. Gay-off. Gay'ff. I do not understand how this is to sound like "Jeff".

SUPER USA (╓abies), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:50 (fifteen years ago)

I've known two Geoffs and hundreds of Jeffs.

jam master (jaymc), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:53 (fifteen years ago)

I've heard from a couple people from Finland with the same surname and they've told me it's uncommon enough there that we're probably related also.

May I ask what is your surname?

Tuomas, Monday, 5 April 2010 22:54 (fifteen years ago)

basically geoff = the original way the name was spelled, the way most britishes spell it, jeff = way that looks more like it is pronounced and the way most USAers spell it. Unless i'm very much mistaken.

404s & Heartbreak (jim in glasgow), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:54 (fifteen years ago)

Wasn't one of The Bangles named Michael Steele? That's a pretty masculine name.

Tuomas, Monday, 5 April 2010 22:55 (fifteen years ago)

same reason gaol sounds like jail u kno

drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:56 (fifteen years ago)

"Geoff" always felt like a weird spelling to me. Gee-off. Gay-off. Gay'ff. I do not understand how this is to sound like "Jeff".

Original spelling. Norman name.

Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Monday, 5 April 2010 22:57 (fifteen years ago)

Zooey.

Sometimes, I've had Russians call me Zoya, but I sort of love that.

tokyo rosemary, Monday, 5 April 2010 23:19 (fifteen years ago)

wait ur name isnt rosemary?

plax (ico), Monday, 5 April 2010 23:20 (fifteen years ago)

May I ask what is your surname?

it's k |_| |_| r 3

In the early days of the internet I'd get random emails from Finns who would tell me it was a really uncommon name and therefore we were probably distant relatives.

They also could never tell me what it meant though someone told me that it translates to something like 'hovel' in Estonian, so perhaps my ancestors were at one point dirt poor Estonians.

joygoat, Monday, 5 April 2010 23:24 (fifteen years ago)

i know a 'geof' and it unsettles me

johnny crunch, Monday, 5 April 2010 23:26 (fifteen years ago)

wtf?

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Monday, 5 April 2010 23:28 (fifteen years ago)

My husband Clayton is now immortalized as CLAYTO thanks to the wonderful folks in Immigration. 4 years of signing his name and sending everything but stool samples for marriage visas and the like and in my final green card confirmation letter, they cock up his name.

My last name is P3nny, and I've lost count of the amount of times that people call me P3nny when my full name is right in front of them. It's to the point now where I just wait for them to realize, and then say 'it happens all the time, I'm used to it.'

VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 05:05 (fifteen years ago)

americans named geoff are forced to change the spelling if they want to vote, because we didnt lose that old war.

HOT DISH THYME MACHINE (jjjusten), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 05:13 (fifteen years ago)

if i ever became friends with a geoff i would refuse to speak to him unless he was wearing a three cornered hat.

HOT DISH THYME MACHINE (jjjusten), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 05:14 (fifteen years ago)

jessie

this is from not only strangers or casual acquaintances, but, like, close relatives, people i've been friends with since high school, coworkers who can clearly see that the nameplate on my desk says JESSE, it doesn't matter. people want there to be an "i" there. i understand it -- there's no word that rhymes with jesse that's spelt like jesse. and i really gave up on correcting people years ago, it just isn't worth the hassle. i've talked to other jesses about it, and they have the same story.

the other thing i get sometimes is "jay," which puzzles me. i guess it's just that they remember what letter my name starts with. or maybe i look like a "jay," i don't know.

hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 05:33 (fifteen years ago)

i get facebook friends sending things to me as "jessie," and it's like MY NAME IS RIGHT THERE ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN, IN THE MESSAGE HEADER.

hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 05:35 (fifteen years ago)

i get called tracy all the time, too.

― tehresa, Tuesday, April 6, 2010 5:20 AM

Haha I'm sure I've gotten Theresa before! But mostly Stacey, which is really quite baffling because I wd have thought Tracy was a more common name? Plus it makes me want to stab things (cf Simpsons grrr)

Gay nineties icecream party (Trayce), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 05:42 (fifteen years ago)

should've said "no, it's got 3 d's"

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, April 6, 2010 3:46 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

My fave was one where he was auditioning to play piano or something with Bobby Vee, and Vee asked him what his name was.

"Elston Gunn," replied Dylan.

Vee laughs at this obviously wonky pseudonym and says, "Is that "Gunn" with one "n" or two?"

"Three," says Dylan.

― deedeedeextrovert, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 8:44 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

armando white (dyao), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 06:21 (fifteen years ago)

thanks to this thread I am definitely going to name my first kid llewelyn

armando white (dyao), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 06:29 (fifteen years ago)

ppl misspell my weird jew name "Schmuel" but i can't get too upset about it tbh

symsymsym, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 06:57 (fifteen years ago)

My husband always has to stress there's an h in his name. It's Thom. Kinda fucked up to give your kid that (for here) uncommonly spelled first name but there you go.... Mine's pretty easy, Nathalie. People never misspell it. But my last name... It's such a fucking common last name and STILL THEY GET IT FUCKING WRONG. It doesn't even make any sense to spell it Cl@y3s. You pronounce it differently.

I hate when people shorten my name to Nat (it means wet in dutch). I prefer Nath.

Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 07:17 (fifteen years ago)

people don't spell your name natalie?

armando white (dyao), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 07:25 (fifteen years ago)

wrong thread, but i just want to point out that 99% of the time my last name gets mispronounced as MacGyver, which is totally awesome

hobbes, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 07:27 (fifteen years ago)

xpost Nope. It's unusual to spell is without an h. :-)

Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:03 (fifteen years ago)

Rosanna
Rozzana (eh?)
Rozana
Rosana

It's Rozanna.

Roz, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:08 (fifteen years ago)

Kail, Kaiel, Kyel, Kelly, Klye, Kylie (but that's all in the Czech Republic)

In southern Louisiana most people think my surname is H3bert (pronounced "A-BEAR")

Fetchboy, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:23 (fifteen years ago)

oh shit h3b3rt

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:30 (fifteen years ago)

eh sorry can someone googleproof that

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:31 (fifteen years ago)

It's Thom. Kinda fucked up to give your kid that (for here) uncommonly spelled first name but there you go....

the angst turned out to be quite lucrative in the end though right?

nakhchivan, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:32 (fifteen years ago)

jessie

this is from not only strangers or casual acquaintances, but, like, close relatives, people i've been friends with since high school, coworkers who can clearly see that the nameplate on my desk says JESSE, it doesn't matter. people want there to be an "i" there. i understand it -- there's no word that rhymes with jesse that's spelt like jesse. and i really gave up on correcting people years ago, it just isn't worth the hassle. i've talked to other jesses about it, and they have the same story.

― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, April 6, 2010 12:33 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yep. I'm male. Jessie with an "i" is the feminime version of my name.

One thing that I get that makes me fucking lose my mind: "Jeffy" (or Jeffe or Jeffie). This happens when I spell out my name to someone and alter receive mail from them. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK. Do you really think that my name is Jeffy/e/ie???? You thought I said "jay ee eff eff ee"?? Fuck you.

it's an old pantyhound, that's who (Jesse), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:42 (fifteen years ago)

It has made me self-conscious about maybe having a lisp.

it's an old pantyhound, that's who (Jesse), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:42 (fifteen years ago)

(disregard the "alter" in the first post- not sure what I was going for there)

it's an old pantyhound, that's who (Jesse), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:44 (fifteen years ago)

I have occasionally had mail to ailfa as a result of this thing.

my sky tv account (and hence email address) are in the name eilsa because despite me spelling my name using the phonetic alphabet three separate times, the guy still couldn't get his head round what isn't that uncommon a name.

ailsa, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:45 (fifteen years ago)

I always say "V as in Victor" when I'm spelling my surname -- personally I think it's kind of self-important sounding to make a big deal out of it, but then when you don't, you get mail for someone you couldn't even find in a phone book.

Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:47 (fifteen years ago)

lolling at "Jeffe"

Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:48 (fifteen years ago)

The phonetic alphabet is very useful, even though it can bog down a conversation. The other misunderstanding, which is as stupid as Jeffe, is when they repeat to me "jay ay ess ess ee?"

Again, yes, my fucking name is Jasse.

it's an old pantyhound, that's who (Jesse), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:54 (fifteen years ago)

this dude don't seem to like it either

http://www.todotube.es/imagenes/El_jefe.jpg

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:55 (fifteen years ago)

ps if you've ever worked on the end of a phone you'll hear every name/spelling under the sun- yes, they should be using common sense to go with the most common/obvious, but then the other 50% of this thread is when people do that at the expense of your own particular brand of weird spelling.

Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:57 (fifteen years ago)

Good point, though I've been on the other end a lot, and maybe b/c I'm touchy about my own name being misspelled, I'm pretty careful to repeat it and make sure I've got it right.

it's an old pantyhound, that's who (Jesse), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:09 (fifteen years ago)

my name is spelt counter-intuitively (i.e. it is spelt cecily and pronounced cicely) so I am pretty much resigned to a system of pronouncing my own name 'wrongly' from the start if i think someone is going to have to write it down, to make sure that when I spell it out they won't get confused and write 'stephanie' as someone did one time.

drama queen woman candidate (c sharp major), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:35 (fifteen years ago)

I think someone actually spelled my name "Derryck" once. One of those things that make you go, "Hmmm..."

SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:39 (fifteen years ago)

One thing that I get that makes me fucking lose my mind: "Jeffy" (or Jeffe or Jeffie).

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Ae3d5o-5AP0/SZboHveDM3I/AAAAAAAAAfA/XSi5jQBwsXs/s400/ME+Family+Circus+12.gif

I turn it up when I hear the banjo (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:45 (fifteen years ago)

I get Steven...

strictly PH here.

✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:51 (fifteen years ago)


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