People keep f--king up my name in real life. It's really annoying (what's funny is that teachers screw up my name the most. Aren't they supposed to have the gradebooks with my name spelled correctly?)
How people Butcher your name
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Huh, you'd think that, but no. My RL name is like that (arguably one syllable for the forename), but can anyone get the surname right? Can they hell. Even when I try a never ending selection of ways of telegraphing how to write it. Doesn't help there are a couple other more common and fairly similar phonetic variations floating around. It's got such that if someone scores it right first time I'm pleasantly surprised and go out of my way to thank them, and am currently relearning my NATO alphabet in order to press it home to call centre ops. Worst was when I went to a dry cleaners ... pre paid with a debit card with my name printed on it ... had to spell it out to them letter by letter as they hunt and pecked it into a terminal ... and the receipt tacked onto the suit when I picked it up STILL had the most mangled and novel rendering I've yet seen. It's been this bad since as far back as I can remember, about age 8 or so *sigh*Dags90 said:
Could be worse. Even our own grandmother can't spell my brother's given name right. An odd spelling of a moderately uncommon irish christian name. He gets BOTH problems. Someone really should have hit our parents upside the head with a pair of deed poll forms and a book of "easy to spell baby names" on their wedding night.
Wierdest thing is I've yet to see anyone make a serious hash of my screen name, in about 15 years of intermittent use - despite it being a purposely mangled rendering of a more familiar trademark. Seems that not many people clock it either... more than a couple have just assumed it as some uncommon exotic/"ethnic" (!) name. Wierder still it seems to make many assume I'm the opposite gender to my birth (it was concocted as a gender- and ethnicity-neutral email/IRC handle), unless for those rare times where I'm actively playing at e-transvestitism. Then the disguise is seen through near-instantly. Needless to say, I don't get it.
Nothing compared to the stick I got with a previous one I employed (and occasionally do for purposes of trolling or activities divorced from my real and usual online names). Lets just say it was nicked off a TV character who shared a surname with a deeply unpopular historical figure. It wasn't meant in bad taste, honest. Funnily enough NO ONE misspelt THAT.
BTW do I score any points by mentioning that on first read of your handle I mentally "heard" it as Kaf-bree-an? (er, ok.. I admit.. kaf-ab-ree-an. Dunno where the stray "a" came from in the middle)
I seem to get called Commisioner fairly often in game. And depending on the speaker, my family name has ended up as Edmund more than once.
For the most part, people pronounce my Steam name "Leko" with a short E. Like "Leh-ko."
It's actually supposed to be a long E, but it's a simple mistake, so I don't usually make a big deal out of it unless someone is saying it a lot.
Never misspelled though. Too short for that.
It's actually supposed to be a long E, but it's a simple mistake, so I don't usually make a big deal out of it unless someone is saying it a lot.
Never misspelled though. Too short for that.
My real world name is "Tylar", although it's pronounced exactly the same as the more common spelling "Tyler". While I have rarely ever had anyone butcher the pronunciation of my name (once in a while there is someone who attempts to call me "Taylor", though), about 99% of people who try to write my name down incorrectly write the more common "Tyler" instead of the true spelling of my name. If I had a dollar for every time I had to correct someone after they wrote my name, I'm pretty sure I'd be rolling in money by now.
My name is Travis Foster. It's really easy to spell, and really easy to pronounce, and nobody ever reads it wrong. What they instead do is go really slow like they're not sure, or they ask me how they're supposed to pronounce it, or something. I have to explain to them that it's Foster, just like foster home, just like it's spelled. As if it seems too obvious to them or something, like it can't just be "foster" because it's never that easy. And people who kind of know me but not really, most of the time they call me Trevor. It drives me crazy sometimes.
Everyone always has a massive issue with my last name. Ramoutsakis. Ram-out-saa-kiss. Not that hard. Although it is amusing to see how people will pronounce my name next. I've heard Ramooskiss, Ramisakis, Ramatski(<-Wtf?) and wa-hay more. Only about 5 of my closest friends actually know how to PRONOUNCE it, let alone be to spell it properly.
Also have issues with 'Xylis' as well. Ex-eye-less. Not exsillis (sounds like some sort of STD). Even had one guy call me Eggsalad once.
Also have issues with 'Xylis' as well. Ex-eye-less. Not exsillis (sounds like some sort of STD). Even had one guy call me Eggsalad once.
Name: Allaiyah.
Pronounced: Ah,ly,yah.
Mispronounced: Uh,lee,yuh.
Webname: Likalaruku.
Pronounced: Lee,kah,lah,rew,kew.
Mispronounced: Ly,kuh,luh,rew,kew.
Pronounced: Ah,ly,yah.
Mispronounced: Uh,lee,yuh.
Webname: Likalaruku.
Pronounced: Lee,kah,lah,rew,kew.
Mispronounced: Ly,kuh,luh,rew,kew.
HAHAHA. Well, My name is Pulwaiya, and many people either mistake it or just do not say it. Some examples of their errors are:andrew21 said:
Pulwaia, Pulwaya, Paulwaiya, Parawaya, Pakwaya, Piwaia, Phelwaraiya, etc, etc, etc. And it's tiring me. So now I'm just writing my name like this:
[Insert subject name here] P. [Insert subject surname here]
Well, not really the "[Insert subject name here]", but I am writing P. instead of Pulwaiya.
My paladin in WoW was known as Huginn, after Odin's raven. It was oft pronounced Hug-jin, much to my dismay.
People seem to always want to spell my name Zach, when it's spelled Zack. Or Zachery when it's spelled Zachary. I've only seen my last name spelled wrong once, when someone spelled it Hollen. (It's Holland)
I would've seen that, saw you were a paladin, then immediately pronounced your name as huggin-soft.LewsTherin said:
Also to many of the people here complaining, you guys should probably include the actual pronunciation since there is a good chance some people just don't know or understand how to pronounce names especially if its from a foreign country.
That being said, I can't believe how many people misspell my first name given that its such a popular name. Michael.
Yet you wouldn't believe the different ways I've seen it pronounced/spelled. My last name is hard for anyone who doesn't know Spanish simple otherwise.
My Gamertag is the same as my username here. On LIVE people have called me everthing from captainainium (yes, the second ain is on purpose) to Captain Titanium (I loled so hard at that one). People always end up calling me cap or captain when they can't pronounce it.
My name is Zachary. However, an insufferable amount of people call me Zach, or put a "k" in my name.