To think that if you've only ever communicated with someone by email

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That they should get your name right? It's written right in front of them

You would think so but experience tells me otherwise. I think those people who repeatedly use the wrong name when yours is on every email are bloody ignorant sods.

Thank you. I feel vindicated now

Annoys the fuck out of me. Say in RL my name is Jane Smith, I regularly get emails to June Smits or equivalent. Even worse if it's a colleague not a client

Crap. Double post, sorry!

Oh yes. My name can be spelled as either one of with 2 different letters that are nowhere near each other on a keyboard. At work, despite the fact that, because I was one of several people with my surname they had to type my name and correct initial into the in-house address book to find me, people would constantly spell it with the wrong letter in the body of the email....

extra 'with' in that first line..

My name spelling is unique

Sometimes people brains spell the name then spell the name in the way they are use to.

Surely only a problem if it's part of your email address

eg if not not give my real but say for instance the spelling of my name was valeria, I would expect loads of people to type valerie

I've had people on the phne before asking me to spell me name who have the audacity to suggest I'm spelling it incorrectly

I have a colleague who repeatedly spells my name wrong, despite me walking round with a bloody name badge on! Drives me mad! It's the first letter as well (think Cath vs Kath) so no idea how she's not noticed

I have lots of colleagues I communicate with by email who have unfamiliar names - esp eastern European ones - there's no excuse for mis-spelling, just cut and paste.

Very irritating. I have colleagues/contacts who can see my name perfectly well at the bottom of my emails, yet address me by a different name. OK, there's only one different letter, but still, it's rude. And makes me wonder how much attention they are giving to whatever we are discussing.

IRL I don't grumble about it though, unless they keep doing it.

Our email at work shows your name as surname, first name. I emailed someone and signed it off with my first name as you do.
He then replied and called me by my surname - which could be a male name I suppose.
Cue great hilarity from my colleagues and me being called Frank for months!

Every day I grow more convinced that sticklers for proper spelling are a dying breed.

YY - dsis and I have names that people spell differently.

Susie, Suzy, Suzie or shortened to Sue

Nicky, Nikki or shortened to Nic

Drives us both mad - if it is written one way on yur screen then that is how to bloody spell it

Yup. I regularly get addressed by the wrong name via email and it's always the same wrong one! Very odd.

Not going to out myself but it's a bit like calling "Mary" "Mel". Same initial, different number of syllables, not the same "type" of name at all. Happens at least once a month from different people.

YANBU!! There are a couple of us in the office that have this problem. My name is relatively unusual, and there are a variety of ways to spell it. People usually either add a letter to the end of my name, or change the first letter.
Another member of staff has a very easy name, but people continually address him by email by a completely different name that starts with the same two letters.

These mistakes usually happen in response to an email we've sent out, which clearly states our full name!
I also have an FB friend who continually adds a letter to my name, even though my name is correctly spelt on FB!!!

YANBU.

My name can be spelled one of two ways. I really don't mind if someone gets it wrong, but if it's written right in front of them (both in my email addres and in the signature!) then it does annoy me.

Someone did it recently to me. His name was Bryan. I made of point of addressing him repeatedly as Brian.

It's the little things that keep me amused.

My name has variants in different languages/cultures but in my case it is the accepted British/English version. Not a problem until I married an Italian and now people seem hell bent on "Latinising" my first name - think Mary vs Maria. This has led to emails not being delivered when they use the wrong variant in the address and actual arguments with people who insist that I must be spelling/saying the name wrongly. They think it must be made more exotic to march the foreign surname.

I can sort of understand it by email but many people continue this astonishment even when they have met me and can see that I am a pale redhead who is as non-"exotic" as they come so unlikely to have a foreign first name variant.

With my email address I have it set up to deliver the message with my name then email address from sender. I'm used to people mis-spelling my name even though if it's internet communication they must be exceptionally unobservant but yesterday, for a work thing I was having an email conversation with a woman who kept addressing me by the wrong name. As an example: calling me Carly instead of Caroline (not my rl name). Just plain crap imo

I think it's the height of rudeness to get someone's name wrong if you've got every opportunity to get it right.

My email has an automatic signature with my name in bold letters, and I always sign my first name "Regards, X" at the bottom as well.

You can spell my first name two ways, both pronounced the same way, one has one more letter than the other. About 1/3 of emails from people use the wrong spelling (and they are usually replies - so they've seen my name at least twice! - actually 3 times, I forgot my name is also in the To field)

One day someone said Goodbye Y to me on the phone - using a name that's very similar to mine, but is a man's name. That one, I just assumed he was having a brain fart and laughed, and tbf, he never got it wrong again.

People get my name wrong all the time. I inwardly sigh and let it roll now, because otherwise I'd spontaneously combust before the day was out, but I do add them to my mental list of idiots

YANBU. My first name is spelt unusually. My work email address is my full name and I will put my name at the end but lots of people STILL spell it wrong. It does make me wonder how much attention they have put into the rest of the email.

I have a surname that can be spelt a different way too, so sometimes even get both spelt wrong!

Is she getting you mixed up with a Carly at your firm ?

YANBU. My name is shortish, and could I suppose be a shortened form of a longer name, but isn't. Think Carrie/Caroline for example. A former colleague always addressed me in emails by the long form ... which is not me at all. There are a lot of unobservant, careless people around.

Name isn't Carly or Caroline - just an example of the kind of mistake. And I'm freelance, so no one else at my firm!

The worst has to be when we were booking a wedding venue. The first place we decided on sent through our contracts (to my email address through which we'd been corresponding) with not just my first name or surname, or DHs first name or surname, but all four names mis-spelt. This was after meeting her and spelling our names out for her. Needless to say we decided that maybe the venue and wedding planner didn't have quite the attention to detail we would hope for at the price they were charging and got married somewhere else