My name is Thomas. People always ask me whether they should call me Thomas or Tom. When they say that, quickly judge which one sounds better when they say it and then tell them to use that one.
How do you react when someone mispells or mispronounces your name?
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My name is Adelaide - Which is a capital city in my country, so if someone in Australia gets it wrong, I get pretty annoyed.
What annoys me more is when people call me Natalie or April. I had a school (geography) teacher call me April for MONTHS. I finally snapped, got up, screamed at her that my name was Adelaide and that she should remember it since it was a part of her job, whilst pointing at the city.
...I got sent outside :3 and in trouble off the head teacher.
What annoys me more is when people call me Natalie or April. I had a school (geography) teacher call me April for MONTHS. I finally snapped, got up, screamed at her that my name was Adelaide and that she should remember it since it was a part of her job, whilst pointing at the city.
...I got sent outside :3 and in trouble off the head teacher.
It is annoying, but reasonable.
My name is hard to pronounce (my full name) So its no big deal, but if its the same person over and over again it gets annoying.
My name is hard to pronounce (my full name) So its no big deal, but if its the same person over and over again it gets annoying.
I'm used to it by now. My name is Ross, so naturally, when people hear my name, they say one of three things:
a).....Russ?.......Oh, ROSS! Right, gotcha.
b) Do you dress for less? HUR HUR! (Or some variation of that)
c) All of the above
It's grating, but I've grown used to it.
a).....Russ?.......Oh, ROSS! Right, gotcha.
b) Do you dress for less? HUR HUR! (Or some variation of that)
c) All of the above
It's grating, but I've grown used to it.
My last name has the word "apple" in it, one of the reasons it's easy to pronounce. There was a lot less nastiness than most people would expect.SimuLord said:
I've been mistakenly called "Alec" on occasion now that it comes to mind, and it annoyed me a bit.
I've got an Arabic name and it is mispronounced often, I didn't have them much of a problem untill I came to America but from that point forward I always had problems. Americans can't pronounce "foreign" words to save their lives.
My first name is three letters long. Nobody has ever, ever mispronounced it.
I have, however, had people fail miserably, and I mean miserably at spelling my last name. Technically, even we don't even pronounce our own last name correctly.
Heh. German surnames.
I have, however, had people fail miserably, and I mean miserably at spelling my last name. Technically, even we don't even pronounce our own last name correctly.
Heh. German surnames.
Everyone seems to mispronounce my gfs name Ana...everyone says it like Anna, and often misspells it like that...annoys her so much she normally uses her middle name.