"No! You spell it with an E! GAWD!" D<

Started by Saryka April 3rd, 2008 4:38 PM
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Saryka

Seen July 16th, 2013
Posted July 16th, 2013
3,499 posts
16.2 Years
...Has this ever happened to you? I understand. XD;

Do people always misspell or mispronounce your name, IRL or your online screen name?

Both my IRL name and my online screen name get misspelled frequently. My name IRL is Natalie, and because I'm part French, and I speak French, people automatically assume that my name is spelled the French way, which is with an "h". So, it ends up being "Nathalie." >:

Online, people just tack an extra "t" to "Scarlet" because that's the way Scarlett Johanssen spells hers~ XD;

People have called me "Nicole" IRL, but I'm not sure how you get that from "Natalie." :x

So, has something like this happened to you? We understand~ \o/

Gummy

by fire be P U R G E D

Age 30
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Brooklyn, NY
Seen December 26th, 2013
Posted October 26th, 2013
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16.3 Years
Heh, don't get me started... >_>

My RL name is Glajummy (sounds EXACTLY the way it's spelled) but since it sounds so exotic, people automatically assume it's spelled in a weird way. So far I've gotten: Glagummy, Glajdummy, Gladummy, Lajummy, and Glajumii. This is the main reason I have everyone simply call me Glaj or Gummy.


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Margot

some things are that simple

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Seen April 16th, 2022
Posted February 25th, 2019
3,662 posts
17.3 Years
Kelsey is pretty easy to pronounce so that doesn't happen too often. Though, I like it when people with different accents say my name. They make the "e" sound at the end sound really cool :3 I actually just remembered that people always ask if I spell it "Kelsie" or Kelsy" "Kelsi". Which isn't bad because it's all pronounced the same way. As for my last name...I think one person who wasn't related to me ever got it right. People always butcher it x_x And this has been going on since I can remember so I give up and let people say it.

Um, like Scarlet, one of my nicknames is Nicole too because someone thought that was my name XD;
Age 31
Seen May 30th, 2013
Posted January 12th, 2009
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19.5 Years
My real name is 'Rachel', fairly easy to pronounce, but a lot of people like to use the more complicated spelling 'Rachael' for some reason. WhyTF is that second A even there? I hate that spelling. >:| My last name gets misspelled a lot too.

For the record, 'Spaekle' rhymes approximately with 'bagel'. I don't mind 'SPY-kul' either (I use it myself sometimes xD) and I suppose I can tolerate 'Speekle', but it's not 'Speckle'. Is there any other way it can be said? D: The 'Oddberry' should be self-explanatory.

Cherrim

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Toronto
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People tend to misspell my online alias a lot. For some reason, people call me Lighting as if I named myself after a lamp. :| I've gotten used to it now, but it used to really bother me. XD;

As for my RL name, it's easy to pronounce, but I do get misspelling sometimes. Erica has at least three different spellings (and a debatable fourth) so that's not surprising.


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Chikara

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Age 31
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Seen April 11th, 2021
Posted March 27th, 2021
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18.6 Years
Um. Yes.

All the time. *looks at kelsey* Yes, anyway, I thought my name was kind of straight forward in how you pronounce it, I guess I was wrong. Both of my names XD;

Chikara - Chee-car-uh
Teresa- Tea-re-suh

The closest people come to mispronouncing my real name is "Tree-sa" That. Is. So. Annoying. I. Am. Not. A. Tree. So please, us Teresa's of the world would appreciate it if you lazy people would not slur our name and say Tea-re-suh. That's a little more wide-scale problem than non-Teresa's realize :<

As for misspelling, dear god here we go x_x;

Terea, Teera, rwewa(...yeah... it's happened),Theresa, Tereesa

...The list continues... xD;
Look at how much a managed to rant about my name :D

Sammi

Age 33
she/her
The States
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Posted November 8th, 2021
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18.3 Years
I don't think I've ever had my name mispronounced or misspelled; I don't know any ways to mess up the name Samantha as is. As for nicknames offline, people can spell it Sammi, Sammie, or Sammy, and I honestly don't care. I'd only be picky online because of my username.

Online, my name really isn't misspelled, either. Usually it's pretty straightforward. Even when I had Nayana as a name, I can't remember people messing it up. Odd, you think they would. :s

Perhaps there is an advantage to having the name Samantha... for a change. (It's a good name but too common >_<)

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peirateis

This is what's left of us.

Age 30
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Posted August 20th, 2009
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19.6 Years
I really only go by Andy everywhere, and people typically know how to spell it. My last name, however, is the one get wrong all the time. Well, they used to, until the show 'House' came on.

But I have been asked whether I was a girl or a guy before. xD

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Seen August 30th, 2021
Posted July 9th, 2009
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Yeah, this happens to me all the time. >_>; Both with my first and last names.

I always have to spell "Kayleigh" out to people because it's not a very common name around here. Or if I do meet someone who shares it, the spelling is always different (e.g. Kaylee or Kayley). It gets annoying sometimes, but I've gotten used to it... I guess I don't mind having a more unique name. XD;
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Posted December 22nd, 2010
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ALL THE TIME. ;__; IRL mostly.
So, my name is 'Karli'.. as in 'Carly'. The spelling is pretty uncommon, and not what a lot of people are used to. A lot of people haven't even seen it spelt that way before.. so they always spell it wrong.

As for pronouncing it.. it's fairly simple. "Car-lee"
BUUUUUT.
People have called me "Kary" and "Karin" and a few others as well. It's very frustrating. x__x
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Klippy

L E G E N D of

Age 31
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Disneyland
Seen December 4th, 2022
Posted February 19th, 2022
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17.4 Years
I get called Jared all the time. Not that annoying, so I just say, "Yeah. My name is pronounced just like that."

But, then other times people just completely screw up my name and I'm like, "...no. It's ---."

You don't get to see my real name. :>

XxZer0xX

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Age 29
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Seen June 24th, 2009
Posted March 5th, 2009
171 posts
15.3 Years
IRL My name's Aaron but a lot of people spell it as Erin. I don't really care though since it's nothing to get worked up about. I just laugh a little. I'd like to change my name or go by something else though. Like Ausaudriel I've got a first and 2 middle names to choose from.
Age 31
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Posted July 26th, 2008
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..Actually, my real name is "Miguel," but since that sounds retarded, I just go by "Michael"

It's..kinda hard to mispronounce "Michael" seeing as, like..2 of every 10 boys have that name. It's bland, and unoriginal, so everyone knows it.

As for my last name, it's "Barrett." i don't care who knows that, it's not like someone's gonna come after me and rape me, based on the fact that they know my last name ._.

People are always saying that wrong, though..it irritates the hell out of me. It's pronounced exactly how it's spelled, but I always get "Barrette," like what a girls wears in her hair, and I'm like "WRONG AGAIN, BETCH >O"
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Plus, Pokemon just sucks anyways.

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BakingBluePotatoe

The Red Death Alchemist

Age 28
Female
Catatonia
Seen March 28th, 2016
Posted February 12th, 2016
2,279 posts
15.8 Years
ALL THE FRIGGIN TIME! >.<

I can only remember like... 2 people who can acctually get my first name right that AREN'T in my family xDD (If a nine-year-old (and even younger) handicapped boy can pronounce my name right, then it can't be THAT hard >.>)

and for some reason my science teacher, Mr. Yoder calls me "Annie" or "Amber" every time I call him "Mr. Phillips" (Don't ask me HOW I confuse a spikey-haired teacher with a blonde guy... o_O)... I don't know how you get that from "Adomany"... -.-
Ironically another student in the same class is named "Annie"...
Another ironic thing is that dad's friend called me "Amber" o_O
How the heck are people getting the nick-name "Amber"?

I've gotten "Domonique" "Adomanique" "Ah-DOUGH-many"and... people fumbling over the name on the first encounter xDD (It's "Ah-Dom-Ahnie")

when I get the "name-fumble" I just go "just call me Ada..."

At home "Ada" is pronounced "Ah-Dah" but everywhere it's pronounced "Ay-Duh"... I really don't care though, since in public I pronounced it "Ay-Dah"...

~~~~~

My last name (Thoma) doesn't exactly in peace either... ppl spell it like "Thomas" "Toma"... I think I even got "Tomea" or something... at least ppl can pronounce it. xDD

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even online (here specifically) ppl can't spell it right...

I keep getting: "~kitsune" "kitsune" "kit".....................................

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People ask me if Benjamin is spelled with a "i" or "a" which is weird, as I thought you could only spell Benjamin with a a but oh well lol

Gerri Shin

  

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Posted April 13th, 2013
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15.9 Years
I haven't gotten many people to mess up on my name, I mean Gerri, that's not hard. (the pronunciation is the same as the name Jerry, my name's just more eccentric with the way it's spelled) and if you cannot pronounce my last name, please do everyone a favor, go back to phonics class.
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Razer302

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Posted December 13th, 2018
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17.1 Years
I get called Razor all the time. I am used to it now though.

IRL I get called by my last name. Most people get called by there last names. No idea why though. It just happened. Some people have thought my really name was Bernie. No idea why it isn't even close to any of my names.

I have also been called Danielle in class. That really annoyed me.
Seen September 8th, 2010
Posted September 8th, 2010
4,627 posts
18.1 Years
For some reason, some teachers manage to mispronounce my name, though I think that it only happened once. Someone called me 'Mah-see' instead of 'May-see' :\ Ah, and in my old school, when I was about 6 or whatever, some of my friends misspelled my name as 'Macey' or 'Macie'. But that was ages ago. I'm sure my friends now know how to spell and pronounce my name.

I haven't had any troubles with my online username. 'Shiranui' seems easy enough to spell for most people o____o
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BeachBoy

S P A R K of madness

Age 31
Male
Texas
Seen November 17th, 2016
Posted November 16th, 2016
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15.3 Years
Very rarely will anyone ever mess up either of my names...

Beach Boy equals extremely simple. I don't think anyone has ever fumbled this one up, if so it's a silly typing mistake. Though I may get "BeachBoi" but I think people are joking with that. >.>

Ryan, again easy. Some people can mistake it as "rian", though this is also extremely rare.
As for my last name, that green gas station we never hear about. Is also nearly never mispoken or mispelled.

So, I'm not in the same boat as most of you. *shrugs*
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