Especially because of unexpected double consonants, or single consonants where one might expect a doubling, or because of consonants that want to transpose or seem to have gone missing or moved to a different position in the name or have moved to or been borrowed from another name entirely.
― Release Radar Raheem (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 10:24 (eight years ago)
Michael Hofmann
― Release Radar Raheem (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 10:25 (eight years ago)
Harry Mathews
Meredith Willson
Georgia O'Keeffe
― Release Radar Raheem (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 10:26 (eight years ago)
Pete TownshendJohn Entwistle
― Release Radar Raheem (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 10:27 (eight years ago)
Dan Aykroyd
David Raksin
― Release Radar Raheem (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 10:28 (eight years ago)
Thelonious Monk.
There's even an ILM thread about it:TheloniOus Monk, goddamnit! There's a second O in the man's name! GODDAMNIT! GET IT RIGHT! SHOW SOME FUCKING RESPECT!
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 11:57 (eight years ago)
Minnie Riperton
Just one p in there.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 11:58 (eight years ago)
I see 'Martin Scorsese' spelt 'Martin Scorcese' a lot
― Darcy Sarto (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 12:18 (eight years ago)
These are all good. Keep them coming.
― Release Radar Raheem (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 12:23 (eight years ago)
Kyle MacLachlan
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 13:15 (eight years ago)
Isiah Thomas (because the prophet Isaiah)
― Release Radar Raheem (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 13:47 (eight years ago)
(Who will be the first to enter a misspelling in place of the correct spelling?)
― Release Radar Raheem (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 13:48 (eight years ago)
dwyane wade
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 13:51 (eight years ago)
Ted Chaough
― dow, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 14:01 (eight years ago)
often need a couple of goes when typing Tuomas or Geir
― The Codling Of The London Suede (Legal Warning Across The Atlantic) (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 14:08 (eight years ago)
happy to accept this is my problem but still
― The Codling Of The London Suede (Legal Warning Across The Atlantic) (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 14:09 (eight years ago)
Doubt you are alone in this.
― Release Radar Raheem (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 14:32 (eight years ago)
Liza Minnelli
Also, for someone so famous it's remarkable that Barbra Streisand's name is so frequently misspelled AND mispronounced (it's -sand, not -zand)
― Josefa, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 17:05 (eight years ago)
Jakub Blaszczykowski
― mint challop (Will M.), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 18:55 (eight years ago)
Reince Priebus
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 18:58 (eight years ago)
mike foltynewiczcarl yastrzemskisicnarf loopstok
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 21:21 (eight years ago)
Pharoah Sanders
― “a tub of horses” (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 21:43 (eight years ago)
David Fahrenthold
― I know hoes that know Ali Farka Toure (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 21:43 (eight years ago)
Giannis Antetokounmpo
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/jason-kidd-blames-giannis-antetokounmpos-lack-of-stardom-on-a-hard-to-pronounce-name-213304296.html
― earlnash, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 21:56 (eight years ago)
Eadweard Muybridge
― I Walk the Ondioline (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 December 2016 21:02 (eight years ago)
― In Walked Bodhisattva (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 January 2017 00:43 (eight years ago)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffery_Amherst
― Tuomas, Thursday, 26 January 2017 10:16 (eight years ago)
Terri Lyne Carrington
― And Run Into It And Blecch It (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 March 2017 17:21 (eight years ago)
Names where you have to suppress impulse to add an extra 'e', such asDave ClarkSamuel R. Delany
Pharoah Sanders― “a tub of horses” (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, November 29, 2016 9:43 PM
― “a tub of horses” (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, November 29, 2016 9:43 PM
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 July 2017 15:41 (seven years ago)
Justin Meldal-Johnsen
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 August 2017 00:54 (seven years ago)
Kalmon Dolgin
― Whiney On The Moog (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 March 2018 15:28 (seven years ago)
Hamiet Bluiett
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 February 2019 19:49 (six years ago)
Elisabeth Welch
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 31 March 2019 16:14 (six years ago)
Curly Putman.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 31 March 2019 17:09 (six years ago)
Leslie Fiedler
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 1 April 2019 11:04 (six years ago)
My internet name
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 April 2019 11:07 (six years ago)
Shia LaBeouf, because it should be Le Boeuf or, better yet, Le Bœuf.
― pomenitul, Monday, 1 April 2019 11:08 (six years ago)
xyzzzz__Posted: 1 April 2019 at 12:07:36My internet name^Just realised there are four zeds, not three. Shook tbh
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 1 April 2019 11:14 (six years ago)
Alanis Morissette
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Monday, 1 April 2019 11:18 (six years ago)
Matthew mcconaghey (??)
― rip van wanko, Monday, 1 April 2019 11:23 (six years ago)
McConaughey, apparently.Thich Nhat Hanh
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 April 2019 22:58 (six years ago)
Cyndi Lauper
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 May 2019 21:54 (six years ago)
my primary school teacher miss issippi
― estela, Monday, 13 May 2019 00:34 (six years ago)
Lol
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 May 2019 00:45 (six years ago)
― nathom, Monday, 13 May 2019 11:14 (six years ago)
Lucian Freud
― fetter, Monday, 13 May 2019 13:55 (six years ago)
(xp) That's more People Who Can't Spell Their Own Names.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Monday, 13 May 2019 14:05 (six years ago)
Haha true.
― nathom, Monday, 13 May 2019 17:31 (six years ago)
Then there's People Who Can't Pronounce Their Own Names.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Monday, 13 May 2019 17:42 (six years ago)
Jacqueline Susann.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 July 2019 18:43 (five years ago)
I kept typing Kawhi as "Kahwi" at first--the pronunciation wouldn't seem to change--but I eventually got it right.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 22:07 (five years ago)
ppl often misspell charles schulz's last name as "schultz," which is kind of sad given that he signed his name to the world's most widely read comic strip more than 17,000 times for 50 years
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 22:12 (five years ago)
Glenn Wallichs
― Ferlinghetti Hvorostovsky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 October 2019 21:47 (five years ago)
Kevlin Henney
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 13:02 (five years ago)
Meshell Ndegeocello
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 14:06 (five years ago)
^good one!
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 14:34 (five years ago)
As evidenced by ctrl+f-ing 'michelle' itt and getting zero results.
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 14:36 (five years ago)
Buuuuuuuut then I guess that would've been the result either way I spelled it as she hadn't been mentioned yet itt.
Look, it's early still, whaddaya want from me.
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 14:38 (five years ago)
Harry Potter
(Sorry, that's "People whose spells are hard to name")
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 22 November 2019 05:47 (five years ago)
Hall Willner
― Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 22:33 (five years ago)
Ha!Hal Willner
― Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 22:34 (five years ago)
Emitt Rhodes
― buzza, Monday, 20 July 2020 04:28 (four years ago)
Queequeg
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 October 2020 14:00 (four years ago)
Elias Pettersson
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Friday, 9 October 2020 17:06 (four years ago)
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 15 July 2021 23:49 (three years ago)
Steve Sesnick.
― Double Chocula (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 October 2021 11:49 (three years ago)
(People want to put an ‘lz’ in there)
As evidenced by decades of my misspelling his name, Nicholas Cage.
― Gimme some skin! Because I don't have any skin. (Old Lunch), Sunday, 17 October 2021 16:05 (three years ago)
Lejaren Hiller
― Heatmiserlou (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 00:49 (three years ago)
Ian Paice
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 February 2022 21:35 (three years ago)
Soo Catwoman
― Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 15:58 (three years ago)
NIck Zinner
― Ramones Leave the Capitol (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 April 2022 00:46 (three years ago)
Company with a misplaced apostrophe in its name:Lands' End.
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 April 2022 15:10 (three years ago)
Brett Favre
Not hard to spell, but how do you get "Farve" out of that?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 29 April 2022 15:18 (three years ago)
Tramell Tillman
― Don't Renege On (Our Dub) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 May 2022 23:14 (three years ago)
Diego Capusotto
― Bringing Up Initials B.B. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 March 2023 01:31 (two years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM298rnixfs
This guy isn't going away any time soon and I'm still struggling after one(1) letter
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Thursday, 23 March 2023 03:43 (two years ago)