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

[LollopingLil]

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!

Unless someone's doing it to be rude, it really doesn't bother me. I have a very common name, think 30 year old female. It gets shortened to different variations that I don't call myself, I've been called completely different names by people and it's spelt wrong on my adoption certificate you'd have thought my parents would have checked, honestly!

I have had people say to me when I can be bothered to point it out that it's because I remind them of a certain name. However, my fil does it on purpose to annoy people, which says a lot about him really.

My friend had a MIL that could spell her name absolutely fine. Pronouncing it though was a very different matter. Her version didn't even make sense or sound remotely right.

The name? Theresa. Pronounced by the MIL There(as in look over there)-Sa. There-Sa. How does that work? She was told so many times. Think she just couldn't be bothered. Or did it on purpose in some weird power play.

its started with my children now to ds 1 is Alexander[ Alex] people have no problem with Alex but if they deceide to use his full name we often get Alexandra its a girls name FFS. Also ds2 is Christian we have already had people trying to call him Christopher which is indeed a lovely name just not his name!

Ooh I went to school with a girl called Chloe, our teacher always called her Zoe and then corrected herself. But she always did it

Lollipoppinglil. "Eh, Begonia? You've somewhat missed the point.

As I said in my OP, I also have a surname that is impossible to spell and pronounce - it doesn't bother me at all that no one ever can."

Sorry I thought you started this thread because you found it 'irritating'. Make your mind up.

I have unusual spelling of common name & it doesn't bother me in the slightest either if folk mis-spell it. I'll correct it for official things, like tax documents or work contract. But emails, memos, notes, meh, doesn't matter.

I know think it's unreasonable for anyone to be annoyed about someone misspelling their name, if they have corrected the person, yet they continue to do it.

Others might disagree, but it is annoying to have to regularly tell the same person, over and over again.

I get annoyed when people lengthen my name and automatically assume I must be Teresa or Theresa. I am not. Neither am I Tessa or Esther (I have in recent years learnt that Esther can be shortened to Tess).

I am Tess. Plain old Tess.

My parents didn't like Teresa, Theresa or Tessa, but loved Tess, so Tess I became. (Had they known that Esther could be shortened to Tess, they may have used that).

I have ordered things off the internet, put my name as Tess down, and they've arrived addressed to Mrs Theresa XXXXXX, and it's incredibly annoying.

DangerousMouse, dd is also Lily but we get Lilly, Lili, Lillie, Lilie. Is Lilly more common? It may be phonetically correct but I never considered changing the spelling, just named her after the flower. I never envisaged all these name spelling problems. Even the flipping bank have spelled it wrong on her account...they had her birth certificate!!

I have an odd name. People misspell it or pronounce it wrong regularly. Not a huge deal IMO.

However I work with a man who also has an unusual name. He made a big deal out of it, and I agreed that it can be grating, and he followed this by saying that he always made sure people's names were correct as it was common courtesy.

But he's a hypocrite, as he is always misspelling my name and emailing me at the wrong email address (email address contains my name). Then he shouts because I havent received his email?!

It normally doesn't bother me, but whenever this man gets it wrong I get the RAGE.

Reindeer-I know what you mean. Some people are just so self involved they don't see their hypocrisy.

An in law gave me a massive lecture on how I wasn't allowed to call her child particular nicknames (one I had heard different people call her so I thought it was ok) and she was only to be known as xxx. She's been calling me by a nickname I don't use since I've met her!

My name is the equivalent of Sarah - and I get people writing the equivalent of Sara (legitimate less common variation), Saira, Sary (and other made up similar sounding words). Why not just use the normal common spelling that was on the mail you are replying to ?

YY roundtable, I don't mind people getting my name wrong, but for people to whom this is a big deal, I would expect them to get it right.

I certainly wouldnt be giving out random nicknames to people if id just said I didn't like nicknames. infuriating buggers.

Lordy, if you can be bothered, read the OP again. You've completely misread it.