Spellings of names driving me insane

[SimplyAmy1]

So, I was wondering if it’s just me…..

If your name is able to be spelt more than one way, for example Abi, would it annoy you if people spelt it Abby or Abbie even if you’ve signed me off an email/ text etc with the correct spelling?

So my name is Amy and it drives me crazy when people spell my name ‘Aimee’ or ‘Amey’
Once at work, I had a name badge on and the customers kept calling me a-my because of my name was ‘Amy’ it would be spelt a-me!

Another thing to add in, does/would it annoy you if you had a name that can be shortened eg- Abigail to Abi and people automatically started calling you abi even though you prefer and introduce yourself
and Abigail and vice versa?

Aibu or just easily annoyed 😂

I couldn't care less what people call me, or how they spell my name, I've more important stuff to occupy my thoughts.

@Levriers haha that’s exactly what I’ve done! This whole thing that set me off this morning was a ‘lily’ calling/spelling my name Aimee!
So I replied with ‘Lilly’ and then made my name out in bold font 🤪

I have a shortened version of a name.

I once sent an email using my email address [email protected] and signing off as Jenni only for the person to reply 'Hi Jenny' - the next email she wrote said 'Hi Jennie' and a few weeks later she had changed my name to Jennifer

Yes, it annoys me.

My name is something like Pat, three letters and one way of spelling it. I sometimes get for example Phat, or Paht, Patt, Patte or even Patrick. It’s always in emails, including replies to me, despite my name being in the signature, or work emails sent to me, to find my email you have to either search my surname which tells you how to spell my first name, or find me on the company website which again, has the correct spelling of my name.

I used to ignore it, now I reply with things like “who would you like me to forward this email to?”

I love how people go in with "I have more important stuff than my name to worry about"😂
I don't understand how people don't care about their name. In the nation with no national ID your correctly spelt name is even more important than elsewhere. Yet it's here where I encountered the "cba to spell and check" attitude.

Yes absolutely hate it when my name is spelt with a K instead of a C! I know it shouldn't be a big thing but it really annoys me! I always say "with a C" after giving my name to a stranger taking my name down to attempt to avoid it! But the worst is when people who have known me for years spell it wrong!

I'm not so bothered when it comes on e.g a Christmas card from the neighbours with my name spelt wrong.
I am fussed when a email from a work colleague I've known for 10 years, and actually sees my name on emails and things gets in wrong. Infact after a year of getting it wrong (a new lady started with the alternative spelling), I put her name incorrectly in a message, and immediately got shouted at for getting it wrong (Think, my name is Linda, new colleague is Lynda, so that's what my name changed to, but when I deliberately put Anne in place of Ann, I get pulled up)
So, I guess people often mind if it's their name wrong, but dont worry about getting others names wrong.

It annoys me when people instantly call me Alex, when I have introduced myself as Alexandra for example.

Its as if they can't be arsed to bother with my full name or other Alexandras they know go by Alex so therefore I do too...

Rude.

Honestly never bothered me,and my name isn’t so well known that people automatically know how to pronounce it. I just let it all go unless I am giving my name to someone for my email address or similar.

There was one admin at work who consistently got it wrong despite our work emails being our full names he would start the email with the wrong spelling but he was genuinely a nice guy and I didn’t think it deliberate. Don’t really care what the staff in Starbucks think it is.

Just imagine how hard teachers have it.

1. No idea how to pronounce a lot of the names on the register.

Saecqlkxoue**s (Eyeroll-how-she-be-so-thick)"It's Jack, Miss. The l is silent."

1. So many different versions of fairly basic names, you forget how to spell them.

My name can be spelled differently at the end. I’m used to having the ‘wrong’ one. My last name is usually spelled wrongly too. We spell it out and it still somehow ends up misspelled.

My name is Ami, but it always gets spelt Amy!

My name (which isn't Charlotte) has several spellings and mine is the "usual" spelling. I don't mind at all if people get it wrong (which they usually do). I do get a bit if it's in response to something where my full name is shown though.

And yet my maiden name was not unusual but had an unusual spelling and that did annoy me when people got it wrong.

Go figure...

DH has this issue all of the time. 2 spelling variants and he has the less common one but it’s still a very common name, nothing out of the ordinary. My Mother spelt it the more common way for years, I’d send her cards with his name spelt correctly and also texts mentioning him, she’d then reply misspelling his name! It drove me bonkers, eventually just told her I wasn’t misspelling my own husband’s name.

My name is pronounced phonetically.

The number of people who will hear me introduce myself and then pronounce my name a completely different way is infuriating. It's not even like it's a foreign or hard to pronounce name, just slightly unusual.

It's not this, but imagine if my name was Rachel (Ray-chel) and people were repeatedly addressing me as Rack-hail.

It gives me the RAGE.

I thought Jorja was Spanish, female version of Jorge? Unfortunate pronunciation in English though.

It annoys me when people instantly call me Alex, when I have introduced myself as Alexandra for example.

I have the same problem and I agree, it’s super annoying. Some people go one step further and rather than use Alex (I’ll use the same example as you), they shorten it to Al…

Meh, not that big a deal to get worked up about 🤷‍♀️

Yes I have one of those names & a far less than common one that makes it even more likely people spell it badly. Some of the spellings have been hilarious though, it makes me laugh more than anything

I find it odd people would do that, Amy is the most obvious spelling!

Can understand people assuming Georgia instead of Jorja etc.

Doesn’t bother me in the slightest.

People pronounce my name wrong all the time. If I correct them, I get called snobby.

By its MY name!!!

Did they think that they were being funny?

It just seems a name that people would have heard of!

That said, I only know 2-one old enough to be my mum & one young enough to be my daughter!

Amy Winehouse was well known enough for the name to have been heard of if you didn't know any I would have thought.

Also Amy Adams, Amy Schumer, Amy Macdonald.

Happens to me a fair bit & I don't care. I only correct it on formal documents.

No it's not just you. I have a Welsh name and people are always trying to anglicise it. Let's say my name is Eleri and people insist I must be 'spelling it wrong' because 'an ee sound at the end of a name is always ie or y like Katie/Katy' (in Welsh it's an i). So I constantly get Elerie or Elery. People misspell it in my email address at work and then act surprised that I didn't receive their email .

Also, people mispronounce it to rhyme with celery instead of Terry.

I have Welsh colleagues with names like Alys, Nansi and Harri who keep getting Alice, Nancy and Harry but at least that's an understandable initial thought. Similarly people with names like Diane and Joanne get Diana and Joanna. Ann gets Anne and Anne gets Ann.

Ay-My instead of Ay-Me for Amy is spectacularly bad though!

YANBU I see people who deliberately change the name I use as doing it to get a reaction/to try and needle me.

I have a pretty classical name...think along the lines of Victoria. I'm happy to be called "Victoria" or my chosen diminutive of "Tori" with Tori being most often used on my email signatures...so when someone responds to one of my emails with "Hi Vicky" it immediately makes me do the absolute bare minimum I need to do for their request...and I'll take it right up to the last minute of the time I have to handle the request. Be PA with me and I'll double down on you!

I am not Vicky, I have never responded to someone calling "Vicky" out loud, I have never introduced myself as Vicky so anyone calling me Vicky can be and is ignored except in work when I just do the PA response because I'm not allowed to ignore colleagues - even arsehole ones