When people mispell or mispronounce your name

Does it bother you?

sometimes it does but I have gotten used to it.

Message edited 7/13/2006 9:27:46 PM.

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nobody ever does for me

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eh, sometimes. i get syrah a lot, as opposed to SARA with and H.

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YES

I particularly love being called Mr. Randi...

I mean. if I was a guy, would I spell my name with a cute "i"???

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After a while, I just don't care anymore. The people who need to know it KNOW IT!!! I don't correct some people anymore.

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Posted by randella

YES

I particularly love being called Mr. Randi...

I mean. if I was a guy, would I spell my name with a cute "i"???

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OMG..ever since I took on my dh's last name..I've been getting all kinds of mispronounciations...it bothers me a little bit..

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It's funny- my maiden name (which I still use at work) is the simplest thing, and yet people butcher it very often. When it's at work, and it's because someone has a different first language, it doens't bug me, because they're relying on their native pronounciations. When a telemarketer (I still get calls to my maiden name) calls me from Ohio or wherever they are, I get annoyed. Because it's so easy.

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Yes, all the time.... Especially on the phone...

Hi, is this Diane??

"no, it's not, this is Diana"

It bothers me sooo much. I don't know why, but it does! My mom has a cousin that still to this day calls me Diane!
This lady @ work calls me Diane all the time and I do not even answer her anymore... sorry, thats not my name!

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It happens all the time but I cringe when I see Daniela with two l's!

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Posted by MissJones

Posted by randella

YES

I particularly love being called Mr. Randi...

I mean. if I was a guy, would I spell my name with a cute "i"???

I have a cousin, Randy, a woman, and when she went to Ireland for business, she needed to use her middle name. Apparently, anytime her name was mentioned, people would break out into hysterical laughter since randy means h o r n y in europe!

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I get laura, laurie, lorna, laurence, even the occassional florence. It's like they've never heard the name Lauren before!!

Hell, my grandfather still calls me Laurie.

I will correct people politely.

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My DH's last name is spelled a very unusual way and it bothers him when people get it wrong. That's why I kept my own name

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I also get "Stacy" a lot, which irks me.

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No - I'm a low talker. For some reason "Barbara" sounds like "Margaret" in a loud setting. As for the last name, well it's a hard to say one, so it doesn't bother me at all. It does bother DH that I try to simplify it by saying "It rhymes with coronary"

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when its constant, yes

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my boss mispells my name all the time

i LOVE IT

I find it absolutely hysterical

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Some of my friends that I've known 1/2 my life still spell my maiden name and my current last name wrong- it gets me a little annoyed but whatever. There are worse things that they could be doing!

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for some reason i get "karen" a lot

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I have people call me by the total wrong name-- usually Robin-- another R name..

I also get Brandy...

Re: When people mispell or mispronounce your name

It used to really annoy me- especially when it's written so clearly on here. But between my first name, my maiden name and my married name I am so used to it by now that I don't get that phased by it anymore

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Nah, sometimes I get Mr. because my name is Christian and that irks me a little but I get over it. I've butchered plenty of names in my lifetime--hell, I'm lucky if I remember your name-I'm so bad with names!