To find it irritating that no one seems to be able to spell my bloody name?

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Sorry, I'm obviously in a generally pissy mood.

I've had emails from four different people already this morning misspelling my bloody name and it irks. Probably irrational, but my name is NOT common-variant-number-one (let's say Jane). It's common-variant-number-bloody-two (Jayne). I have an extra letter, but it's still a very, very common spelling! Miss it out and it's not me.

Misspell my surname and I couldn't give two hoots, it's forrin and hard to remember - I get that, it's fine. Misspell my first name and I feel 'not seen', but that it would be far too petty to raise with you. I feel especially narked if I've paid a lot of attention to spelling your name.

I am totally, irrationally U on this but by god, it rankles!

For the original spelling of Rachel, well, Hebrew script doesn't really have vowels (only dots etc. there's no "e" letter and whatnot) but it's pronounced "RaKHel" (kh as in "loch"), with no a type sounds in there (apologies if this makes no sense).

Oops. Sorry OP.

It amazes me how many people change the a at the end of my name to an e. It also pisses me off no end. It's a different fucking name if you do that, and it isn't my name.
Over the last few years I have taken to not answering if people get it wrong. Oh but I emailed you say.
No you didn't. I did receive an email for somebody with a similar but different name, so didn't think it was for me and therefore didn't reply.
Get my name right if you want a reply. Surprisingly, it's English (although German in origin a million years ago), it's easy, it's not common but not uncommon either and more to the point, it's not fucking hard.

Nobody (even family) seem able to correctly spell dds name. It's 4 letters and the original spelling of the name. Not hard, or so I thought!

My name is one of the Isabel/Isobel/Isabelle varietals, so it pretty much never gets spelt right on first go. it goes with the territory - I'd have had to check myself out by now if I let it get to me. It only bothers me if people are continuous repeat offenders, and to my recollection that's only happen once, with a non-close colleague.

And this colleagues didn't even spell it one of ^^ those ways, but rather her own made up concoction.

My first name can be spelled at least five ways. My way is the original ie closest to the Greek word is derives from. No one ever gets it right first time unless they are closely related to someone with the same spelling. It's maddening.

YANBU

I know it annoys me too. I just wish my parents had called me Lucy. What a pointless spelling Lucie is.

And - my husband's surname is always being mis-spelled and mispronounced. I wish I'd kept my own name and not double barrelled it.

My boss is Liza. leeee zzz a

Not Lisa!!

Liza and Lisa are said different and spelt different and people get it wrong and I WANT TO HURT THEM!!

I get so much wound up than she does

I am Kirstie. With an IE. Like Kirstie Allsopp and Kirstie Alley. Not Kirsty or Kristie. And one ex colleague kept telling my my name can't possibly be Kirstie I am trying to be trendy and cool by changing the ending. Despite that being the ending on my birth certificate.

My name gets misspelt a lot - I've been through a long phase of getting annoyed by it, but I just deal with it now. Also, I shorten my name to quite a common shortening, but there is a more common (and similar) one that people seem to want to call me instead, even though I have never been known by it - including my sister in law (I told her once and she stopped for a bit, but it slowly crept back in again) - this annoys me more.

I'm a Jo. Ex line manager insisted on calling me 'Joanna'. It's not my name. Jo is a shortened version of my name, but my full name is not Joanna. I told her this. She cackled and carried on doing it. She introduced me at meetings as Joanna. I would then have to explain that it's not my name while she cackled over me. She was a massive, massive twat and I left after 11 months because of her.

YANBU. It's infuriating.

I'm guessing from your NN, that your name may be Lilly? My daughter has this name but we spell it Lily, people are always putting Lilly on cards and invites - it seems which ever way you spell it, people will spell it the other way!

People usually try and spell my name phonetically and get it wrong.

It gets prounced wrong too.

It really, really doesn't bother me.

What does bother me is that the registrar spelt my middle name COMPLETELY wrong, and neither of my parents noticed till I pointed it out to them when I was about 8 years old.
That is somewhat vexing.

Dawndonna

Joanna?

Am I right? Tell me I'm right!

YANBU. I have an unusual spelling of a fairly unusual name (Austen) and it's always misspelled by people that don't know me. It only irks (a little) when I've written an email, signed off with my name spelt my way, and they reply time and again with it misspelled. That could be considered rude I suppose, but the impersonal medium of email doesn't help.

It irks most, however, when family do it! I have aunts and uncles that continue to spell it Austin and I'm nearly 40! I've even had Austyn once, but that was because the person knew it wasn't Austin!

Meant to add that I'm not fussed in the slightest when people spell it incorrectly if I've said it, or if it's the first time I've met them.

I use a shortened version of my name which is only four letters long, and nobody has yet struggled to spell it, though yheres always time. I do get the thing though of people thinking its short for something it's not (Elizabeth). I was volunteering once, and introduced myself, and one dickhead cackled and said "I'm going to call you Lizzy, I bet you hate that!" It's not my NAME, you silly fucker.

MIL also took a long time to twig. Before he was with me, DH dated a girl with the same name as his older brother's partner. His you her brother started seeing an Elizabeth and MIL said "oh, we've got two the sane again!" (She's not very tactful). "Que?" said DH. "You and your brother, both with an Elizabeth!". We had been together for two and a half years and had a child together by this point. I had to leave the room so DH could explain what my name actually was, without me biting her.

My Ds is Alexander but we call him Xander and I get really annoyed when close family spell it Zander. I write his name in texts and in cards so they must know by now how to spell it

Yes, all the time.

DM is Swedish, so wanted a name that worked for her family too. Sara. So DF (bloody historian) said OK, but in that case we must have the original olde English spelling. Have been stuck with explaining that yes it really does have two r's; no it's not a trendy spelling (trendy - snort - they should meet my antedeluvian father!); no, it's not Sarah; rhymes with Lara not Farragh. Etc etc, sigh.

Agree don't mind so much if it's new people, but
step-FIL, after 11 years, is another matter.

I did not realise how many spellings of dd's name there were until we cgot congratulations cards with a variety.

jane /jayne is easy a great big hanging down letter in the middle, but double letters or Katherine/Katharine which are the same shape are much harder to spot.

lilly is the phonetic way of writing lily (short i double consonant) I got to late 30's without knowing the difference.. it is really obvious now...