to wish people would listen when I introduce myself

[ilythia]

this has been going on for years so IAprobably BU to still be pissed about it but, I am...

When someone introduces themselves to you as (say) susan, pronounced Soo-sun, DON'T repeat it back to her as soo-zanne, or something similar. It is Rude

It is ruder, when I correct you and say 'No, soo-sun, to then say 'that's what I said Soo-Zanne'

But not as rude as correcting the pronunciation/spelling of my own name I am 32, if I have been spelling it this way for that long I think I should be allowed to carry on.

Listen people.

Here endeth the rant. I thank you.

YANBU.

I have had to put up with people calling me Tracey and putting an E in my name my entire life, it is not my fecking name and I know how to spell it!

V.annotying surely it's not that difficult!

YANBU I just wish people would remember me when we've been introduced. I can think of a few people that have brightly said "I don't think we've met" when we have!

Of course YANBU. My name sounds kind of similar to a much more popular one and I quite often get people repeating that one back. What really gets me is when they do it on email - my name is in the 'sent' bit and on the email signature FGS.

'So watch what you say, and if you still need her, then be on your waaaaay, Don't give a damn about Susan...'

I honestly think some people, in the same way some are tone deaf, can't hear the difference between Soo-sun and Soo-zanne. So I don't think they're necessarily being rude.

My name can be pronounced in two ways too and I have had people using the (ugly, less popular) form occasionally and it does piss me. Flicking on the forehead, only way

It's so annoying, my siblings all get it too, we just have those kind of names...

flicking on the forehead is the way to go then!

I always forget peoples names as soon as they tell me anyway. If I repeated it back I might not have this problem.

I forgive my name being spelled incorrectly (its not hard btw)

I forgive it being pronounced wrong when read (again its not a hard name)

but I hate those that on introduction,

immediately put a stupid sounding accent on it, as if they are trying to correct my pronunciation, of my name.

or

Say " I'll call you {pointless abbreviation} then?"

And then get annoyed when I decline. They have the need to shorten a name because they cannot be arsed to say three short syllables?

Grr.

My name is not hard to say or spell, it only has 5 letters, it is a common name, but my Mil, after 11 years, still persists in misspelling it to make another name pronounced an entirely different way., although she pronounces it correctly herself...

I have a hyphenated name ( I know how much everyone loves those ) and I can't stand it when people shorten it.

Tis rude in my opinion, I don't go around randomly shortening anyone else's name, so don't do it to mine .

People have called me Lesley for years and my name sounds NOTHING like Lesley...YANBU

I can't comment until I know what your name is

YANBU

I frequently get calls at work from people saying they cant find me on the work address book to send an email...this is because they are trying to spell my name with 2 ls. It has one 1. I have never seen it spelt with 2!

Worse still was my Ex Bil, who for 8 years called me the wrong name - he seemed to think my name was a shortened version of another name, and called me that instead. but it isnt a shortened version its a (quite popular) name in its own right.

YANBU. I have a feminised version of a male name (like Nigella, kind of) and I get so fed up of people just not bloody listening and calling me Nigel (equivalent) or addressing post to me as 'Mr'.

Also lots of my friends shorten it to 'Nige' (equivalent!) and I have never, ever introduced myself as anything other than the full version.

To quote Catherine Tate's sweary gran, what a fuuuuucking liberty!

You wouldn't happen to be Greek would you ilythia? If you are your nickname gave it away.

I live in Greece now and it is practically impossible for Greeks to say my name as the sound 'shhh' does not exist here.

My name is very rare in the part of the UK I live in.

If I'd stayed in the part of the UK I'd be born in and my parents are from, it's not rare and EVERYONE would know how to say it and spell it.

GRRRRRRRR

It annoys me. I introduce myself, I say my name. Then I get called

No you fuckwit I told you my name is

And on and on and on

All my children have easy to say and spell names as a result.

Bane of my bloody life.

Thanks mum

People often get my name wrong (spelling and pronunciation) and I know that if it's that common to get it wrong then the likelihood is that it's an easy mistake to make. Otherwise great swathes of the population are rude and ignorant. I don't think this is true.

It's what you're used to. I worked with a woman called Janet but had two family friends called Jeanette. It's very hard to switch to the unfamiliar and I'm sure occasionally I struggled. I'm not rude though, just human.

YANBU - my real name is one syllable, and four letters long, but for some reason people often decide to add a 'y' to the end, and then persist in using the resulting name no matter how much I ask them not to. It is very, very rude.

People often misplace the Y in my name(specifically cold-callers etc) so that it makes a YEE sound instead of an AY sound.

I just find it comical

Could be worse- you could have been called Siobahn or Niamh and then you'd get called the wrong name about 50 times a day unless you actually live in Ireland.

Noone ever spells my name correctly as it's the Norwegian version of a Scottish name. I actually don't mind, apart from when I sign off an email with the correct spelling, the correct spelling is in the email address and the recipient still replies with the wrong spelling.

OT and picky but being tone deaf wouldn't make someone unable to distinguish between Susan and Suzanne, it's just a question of which syllable gets stressed (SUsun v suZANNE) [now, where is that pedants corner?]

My boss at work is Lieza - I get hysterical with rage (when I have a cob on already) when people call her Lisa

LEEEEEEEEE ZZZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAA it's LIEZA not pigging Lisa.

My name is just misheard, constantly, I have to say the first letter in a "Z for Zulu" type way all the time. I don't mind that for some reason, that's mishearing not plain and utter ignorance

I have a unisex name with more spellings than I can count and it's a nightmare. I also get called names that sound vaguely like it and people get annoyed when I correct them Grrrrr.