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Original poster

To want other people to spell DS's name correctly

73 replies

fifi669 · 22/12/2013 10:57

He's called Isaac. It's not difficult. Nursery spell it wrong. Even done of his paternal family do....

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TheWomanTheyCallJayne · 22/12/2013 11:40

My Isaac came home with a folder labelled Issac from school.
I'm going to go with the hope that it was a work experience person or something.

MyNameIsKenAdams · 22/12/2013 11:43

My DH annoys me with his spellings - he writes Joe for a female Jo. Grrrr

QueenArseClangers · 22/12/2013 11:52

I have an Isaac. Hate when people write 'Issac'. As far as I know that's not even a valid/real version of it!
Had it from schools/nursery/etc. It's not like Cate/Kate or Gill/Jill which can be understandably spelt both ways....

oldbaghere · 22/12/2013 11:57

My ex SIL was ranting one day at Christmas about how people couldn't spell her sons name correctly and it was massively rude to get it wrong. Especially if someone had sent you a card with the right spelling on it.

Dc2 was 16. I pointed out she had spelt his wrong on his Christmas gift. Grin

lljkk · 22/12/2013 11:57

I am on the fence, tbh. I have an common name with weird spelling & people get it wrong quite often. I only care in professional settings. Simply doesn't matter otherwise.

NickNacks · 22/12/2013 11:59

DH's aunt spells DS's name Jame's Hmm

LucyLasticKnickers · 22/12/2013 12:05

ha ha nicknacks. Classic.

CatsRule · 22/12/2013 12:25

People spell my ds's name wrongly...even when it's in writing/text in front of them to copy! It is not even an unusual name...I think people can just be a bit absent minded. My boss.especially insists on using every other spelling there is...whilst complaining that people can't spell or pronounce her name Hmm which is unusual in comparison.

A very rude man told me in a very rude manner that I spelt/pronounced ds's name incorrectly....it is the traditional spelling which as far as I know can have two pronunciations...fair enough to pronounce it differently but after hearing me pronounce it you'd think he didn't have to be so rude!

Original poster
fifi669 · 22/12/2013 12:41

I think if he gets a school folder back with 'Issac' on it I'd be getting out my red pen.....

lljkk I think it's understandable if you spell your name in an unusual way for people to get it wrong before they're told. Mark spelt with a c etc. it's the standard ones I don't get! Someone posted earlier about Sophie spelt Shophie!

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LittleprincessinGOLDrocks · 22/12/2013 12:47

I think I may be guilty of this. I was helping DS write Christmas cards, he told me the names and I wrote them down for him (he is 4). He said "Amy", so I wrote Amy. Turns out her way of spelling it is Amiee. I would never have guessed that in a million years. I now have it noted down for next time.
However Isaac is a name I have seen a few times around where I live, so YANBU.

lookatmybutt · 22/12/2013 12:53

But... but... Isaac is a normal name!

Mine is weird, 4 letters, pretty much everybody gets it wrong even though it's spelt how it sounds, but it is a weird name.

When I first started school, the teachers kept 'correcting' my name - either using my middle name (a normal name) or making up some random name. I was deeply offended at the age of 4 to have all these adults telling me I didn't even know what my own name was!

My mum complained after many indignant whines from myself and it was all fixed. My teacher was so sweet, she turned my incorrect name plate into a doodle of a hat display counter which made me happy again. It had many fine hats on it, and my name was all fixed.

It only took them a year and a new and sensible teacher!

FredOFrog · 22/12/2013 12:57

I wrote an envelope for my 5 year old's classmate who is called 'Isaac', only to discover a day later when I saw the name on his coat peg, that it was spelled 'Izaak'. Oh well .....

FobblyWoof · 22/12/2013 12:57

This is our name choice if dc2 is a boy (making their grand appearance in five days! Blush)

The only thing that makes me doubt our choice is potentially having to spell it out to everyone, but it's just such a lovely name

BiscuitsAreMyDownfall · 22/12/2013 12:57

lookat your name sounds like it could be very similar to DD2's name.

Mine is weird, 4 letters, pretty much everybody gets it wrong even though it's spelt how it sounds, but it is a weird name. describes DD2's perfectly. Probably completely different of course, just that sentence was a great explanation.

verytellytubby · 22/12/2013 12:58

I have a Finley. It's always spelt FINLAY. At school, even by my parents. I don't get it. I have to email the SENCO after getting one of her reports to say he name was spelt wrong all the way through.

SomethingkindaOod · 22/12/2013 12:59

DH still has to correct people now, he's 40! Between his name and my maiden name which used to cause much hilarity in my parents house when the post came we decided to give our own DC's names that couldn't possibly be misspelled.
That didn't work..

trashcanjunkie · 22/12/2013 13:00

fifi I had a late night, what can I say.....

I feel your pain though, I have a Reuben and his christmas cards have been extremely varied spellings. He thinks it's funny. We've had Rebun, Roobun, Ruebin.... the list is endless.

LeafyGreen13 · 22/12/2013 13:02

People always spell my kid's names wrong as they have forrin names. It doesn't bother me but I do expect their school/nursery to get it correct.

I have a friend whose son is Connor, or Conor, or Conner, I can never remember which. Blush

BackforGood · 22/12/2013 13:02

Part of the problem is that so many people choose to spell their dcs names wrongly, that when you see a wrongly spelled name nowadays you can't assume it's a mistake and 'correct it', you have to assume it is the child of people who either can't spell, or for some reason thought it would be 'quirky' to give their child a 'different' spelling.

BeeMom · 22/12/2013 13:07

My name is misspelled ALL the time - I was given a common name in North America in 1973 - in my year at school, there were probably 15 of us.

My own brother still spells it wrong Xmas Hmm

One L, 2 Ls, single or double S, Y or I... drives me insane.

Then, stupid me, I went and gave my DD a name that apparently no one can spell (or pronounce) properly, either. What was I thinking?

BohemianGirl · 22/12/2013 13:10

Michael is not difficult. It is one of the most common names across all cultures in the world. It pisses me off when I see Micheal

Nocomet · 22/12/2013 13:10

Nursery and reception, Yes because he needs to learn it correctly. Otherwise it's not worth getting too steamed up about.

DD2 has the less common spelling of her name and has deliberately chosen to be awkward about the spelling of her NN. She accepts people get both wrong.

She was much amused that her HT (who's taught her odd days since she was her class teacher in Y2) finally got it right in her very last report.

I used to get pissed of at people miss spelling my surname because they changed it into two different ones.

One of which was the wrong first letter! That meant I didn't exist in people's alphabetic files - that was annoying!

mrsjay · 22/12/2013 13:16

DD went to school with a lot of Rebeccas and yet each Rebecca had a different way of spelling (well maybe each is a slight embelishment but a few)

CecilyP · 22/12/2013 13:26

YANBU, there is only one spelling of Isaac and if you have an Isaac in your nursery you should be able to get it right.

OTOH, life is far too short to worry about how every Ann or Isobel and suchlike spells their name.

breatheslowly · 22/12/2013 13:39

If either of them are on the thread, I'd like to apologise to the parents of Esme who is at nursery with DD. I haven't met any of them and DD's pronunciation of Esme led me to believe that she is called Ismay.

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