To correct my name

[Rosegoldfan]

At work people constantly add an s on my name for no reason. As they do in every day life to be honest. It has never really bothered me.
However a list was sent round at work with an s on the end of my name. This time it actually pissed me off. It never has before. So I emailed the person and told them to correct it. Now I feel like a dick. The person will probably think I am a pedantic clown. I am cringing.

Example. My name is Wood not Woods.

I have had to do it. It's quite surprising what people can do to names so if it was Woods instead of Wood you got off lightly, but it is still wrong.

I've seen things like Graeme written as Grahamme. Yes, Graeme minded.

It’s your name. Definitely correct them. I do it, every damn time.

I'd probably add a random s to all their names, see how long you can keep it going before someone tries to pick you up on it.

Especially if their name is Ball - or Bullock!

Anybody who presumes to tell you what your own name 'should be' - and then blames you for not accepting their amendment with good grace and silence - IBU to the moon and back.

I have a double barrelled first name, to make it easy for people I’m fine for people to abbreviate it to just the initials (AJ, PJ, etc). I sign off email with the initials and my double barrelled name hyphenated (it isn’t actually, but I do it to emphasis to use both names)

The number of people who address me by just the first name in the double barrelled is ridiculous. I lose count of the times I have to correct people, often more than once. Often getting a pained reaction as if I’m being awkward!!!

I don’t like the first name in my double barrel. I don’t identify with it. Don’t call me it,

I really feel for you. I kept my own surname and added DH's Scandinavian one. They're not hyphenated and I'm Ms, not Mrs.

I don't think I have ever had a piece of correspondence correctly set out with the right title and spelling of my last names. Mostly I'm quite jolly about it, but I was represented by a firm of solicitors who spelled my name differently every time they referred to me in their letters - and sometimes it was different within the same letter. I lost my shit with them in the end.

I completely sympathise with you OP. It's sloppy and lazy to not care about getting someone's name right.

LOL @girlmom21!! I like what you did there

Misspelling or mispronouncing someone's name is really bad - it's part of their identity and I bet a large proportion of the serial misspellers of names would be pissed off if someone did it to them.