How people Butcher your name

[Dexiro]

I've had a lot of people read my name as Dextro and Deximo for some reason.

 

[C95J]

Callum

Spelling mistakes: Callam, Cullam, Calam, Calum, Culum, Cullum. (The list is endless).

Pronunciation mistakes: Cullum, Caylum, Cayum. (Only Americans mispronounce my name though for some reason).

Also the dictionary has a personal hatred for my name.

 

[reg42]

No one butchers my name; it's a pretty simple name.

 

[pejhmon]

if anyone ever gets my name right first time i feel like giving them a cookie (my real name is my escapist name). I'm too used to teachers going;
Joe
Bill
... *pause, teacher's eyes squinting, total silence whilst his mind goes into overdrive* ...
Me: it's Pejhmon sir,
Teacher: ah ok ...

Although there was this one time when that happened where it wasn't my name they stubmled on, it was James instead (how you mess that up i have no idea)

Ofc there is the range of terrible pronunciations that I stopped caring years ago (unless it is just completely off course) although i do think some of them were deliberate (e.g. pokemon )

 

[Mr Metzger]

Seamus (properly pronounced: Shey-mus)
(What most people say: See-mus)

Irish folk like myself would never mispronounce that

 

[Dr. wonderful]

My name is Kevin Johnson.

Yeah, try to mess that up.

 

[Shaun Hastings]

Michaelis.

People prenounce it the weirdest ways. Mic-ah-lay-less or Michaels. It's prenounced like Meh-Kay-Less, I suppose.

 

[sdafdfhrye3245]

My name is Kevin Johnson.

Yeah, try to mess that up.

I don't think I can Cevan Jonsun

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

People tend to misspell my name Dane, my name is spelled D-A-Y-N-E

Also, some people accidentally call me Dwayne.

 

[Lidrial]

My name's quite hard to mispronounce. My best friends name on the other hand always get mispronounced. Her name is Cheyenne and someone once pronounced it as Shane.

 

[Ironboot]

Well, my name is Zodiac. In Swedish, the o is pronounced like... The os in boobies. Some people insist on saying Zådiac (å sounds kind of like the o in... horny?). My name can't really be fucked up in English though!

As for online names, a few people have called me Ironbot. Or Iron Boot.

 

[LogicNProportion]

Yes, to both my real name and my LIVE GamerTag:

Real Name: Frankie Di Salvo

Often interpreted as: Franky Disalvo

( Actually, the first time I got published for poetry in a serious book, my first name was mispelled 'Franki')

GamerTag: Vehemeti

It's latin for 'violence'. And no one can pronounce it online...