How people Butcher your name

[EightGaugeHippo]

I dont understand what is so hard about the word Gauge?
Its not "gorge"
Its not "gag"
ect

 

[Saskwach]

I wont' say my last name because I like my internet anonymity, but I will say that my name is both a)incredibly rare, and b)incredibly Polish. With sounds that don't exist in English, and others that aren't written with the same letters.

So I've gotten "Poppajikozny", "Pobzensky", and so on. Once someone said "Ok, you're Wheelbarrow from now on." I can't blame him.

 

[johnman]

John's not a an easy name to screw up, but for some reason people keep asking me if my real name is Johnathon, the same people as well.

 

[NicoDK]

in most, if not all games, i go by Angerfist and a few guys in TF2 have called me Angelfist and angerfish.

 

[Raddragon]

I first had regirock888, and for those of you who know it, yes, its a pokemon.
So everywhere I went people kept saying "pokemon".

Ok so it changed to "RadUchiha"

But then I kept being called stuff like
rad uchiCha,rad uchiNha...

But wait! it doesn't stop here!

Then I changed to ryander and it only got worse. People started calling me Ryder. RYDER.
I swear to god.

Now I changed to Rad.

So I though : "There's no way they those idiots can screw this one, right?"
...
And now I am frequently called "Red". At least I like the color.

 

[FairlyFrightenedFeline]

My online name on every other single thing is ScaredCougar, and i'm constantly being called SACREDCougar.

 

[Broady Brio]

Let's see...

George-Hurst.
Mjorj. (Prounced Meorge.)
Broad-bean.

Theres a few.

 

[DMShade]

My online alias in places is Kysairshade, but people who've said is aloud always pronounce it 'Kaiser' for reasons I don't get. Then again it's not a common word so it's sort of unfair to expect them to get it right off the bat.

My last name is also french...written, you would never pronounce it right, and spoken, you would never spell it right, unless you were solely francophone, which even I am not. My family gives an improper pronounciation on purpose and readily accept it, but even then, it's very often misspelled.

The word is written Pepin. It is properly pronounced peh-pain, with the N kinda silent. But even said as written, peh-pin, people try to add an extra p or get pippen, pepper, etc.

 

[animeconquerer]

People keep calling me by my last name, rather than my first name. It's gotten to the point where people I've never even met before just assume that it's my first name.

 

[DarkHourPrince]

Patricia
I get misspellings of this all the time: Patrisha, Patrica, and some genius put a Z in there at some point, I have yet to figure out how.

 

[HardkorSB]

Try to pronounce my name (especially those of you living in english speaking countries):
KRZYSZTOF

 

[AvsJoe]

A huge amount of people spell my name: Joeseph. It's Joseph. Where does that extra 'e' come from? I have never heard of a Joeseph...

You know what? Forget it. Call me Joe.

 

[sune26]

Well my name is Sune which is a Scandinavian name so I'm fine in Scandinavia, however when I was in England people kept calling me Zune which is quite annoying since is pronounced Suhne

 

[obex]

I know a guy called Chulainn (pronounced cull-an) but most people who read his name fail at saying it such as Choo-lain Chill-i-an and other silly varietys

 

[Triptophobia]

It's surprising how often 'Heather' is mispronounced, especially by Arabic people (mostly teachers at school). I pronounce it 'HETH-uh', but I've gotten 'Heeth-AH' and people from the US always pronounce it 'Heth-errrrrrr'

My username is pretty straightforward, but people mispronounce it sometimes.

 

[Timmons]

well, my WoW character is called Waowagmo, so that get gets mis-pronounced/spelt a fair bit. Wai-oh-wag-mo

 

[sdafdfhrye3245]

My surname is Glamorgan. Instead of pronouncing it like it should be, they either say Glargamore, or make "glamourous organ" jokes. You'd be amazed how unfunny they are.

I gotta admit that is a pretty awesome name mind if I take it?

 

[Deadlock Radium]

People keep calling me Furbert.

My name is Furburt.

Nobody messes up my real name though.

Fabian Thomas Benjamin Macginty O'Neill or something similar if I'm correct? [SUB][/SUB]
[SUB] I learned it from one of your YouTube videos actually.[/SUB]

People tend to say Deadlock instead of Deadlock Radium while online, which really makes me angry sometimes, why can't people be arsed to write an additional six letters?

And my real name (Joakim Runderheim) is often written Joachim Rundereim, which pisses me off.
And many people write my house adress wrong (No. 61), they write no. 57.
[SUB]The Norwegian Government does that too.[/SUB]

EDIT:

My surname is Glamorgan. Instead of pronouncing it like it should be, they either say Glargamore, or make "glamourous organ" jokes. You'd be amazed how unfunny they are.

I'm really sorry, but I laughed at the Glamourous Organ-part.
Awesome surnname though.

 

[Daipire]

Well, people type my name wrong...

Jordan Clarke is pretty easy to say/remember...