To expect people to spell my sons name right!!!!

[Frasersmum123]

I know in not BU, so im just ranting!

My Mum, Sister and Nan cant spell it right, neither can the nursery I pay to look after him!

Why did I not think when I named him that people would get it wrong?

Feel alot better now

People used to insist on adding an A onto my name and when i told then there wasn't one, most would insist that i was lying about my own name

id let nursery off cos that is a common spelling but what are your family on?!

frasersmum.......I know......beggers belief doesn;t it sometimes!!!

heyho, tis something to have a moan over at least, or a giggle

We havre a Phoebe and one of the IL's friends sent us a Chiristmas card spelling it Febbie???

My maiden surname was Playle. Only six letters, but almost no-one could spell it right. I pronounced it Play-all and that's exactly how some people would spell it. Even when you spelt it out letter by letter they'd put Payle or Playell. Then I married a Curtis. Some numbskulls manage to get that wrong!!!!!! Curtess or Kurtiss
I wish I could reserve all the first names I'd like to be able to give to my child/ren when I'm lucky enough to fal PG to stop friends and cousins getting in first. I now have 10 second cousins so there are ten names I have to avoid already.

KC - you don't need to avoid cousins' names - I gave my DD the name that my cousin used for her DD (who was 8 when my DD was born). The 8yo was thrilled and thought it was excellent that my baby had the same name.

My daughter is called Meghan not Megan and people always spell it wrong. However Megan is traditionally spelt Megan so i realised when Hubby came up with the h in the middle that people would get it wrong. Still annoys me tho.
I always say her name is Meghan with an H!
My maiden name was campion and no-one ever spelt that correct. My surname now is adams and I alwayus get asked is that one d or two.
If people are unsure why not ask how do you spell that.
I have a friend called Fraser and I assumed from the beginning that it was spelt Fraser but would have asked if unsure.

but FGS Fraser is not exactly complicated or unusual!

YABU and a bit OTT IMO.
No-one ever seems to spell my daughters name right but hey its not exactly the end of the world. they are at least writing to her. Rather she got cards/invites etc with incorrect spellings than none at all.

I really cant see why anyone would get worked up over it at all.

I think if you choose a name where there are valid different spellings or you opt to add letters for a more unusual spelling then you have to accept it will confuse people.

I'm afraid if someone said to me megan with an h i'd probably just look at them blankly - but then i'm pregnant and feeling a bit dim .

I'm tracey though (a child of the 70's) and have spent my life saying tracey with an e. But if i do get the wrong spelling i can't say it really bothers me.

Fraser is fairly standard. But things are complicated nowadays for two principal reasons: (a) many people are ignorant; and (b) many people use non-standard spellings.

No one ever spells my name right and my name is common! It's Stacy not stacey and I've had it fro people my entire life, at christmas I got a card from my gran with an e in it my mum done it a while ago too

You'd thinkafter 22 years they might know how to spell my name

Actually the E thing doen't bother me half as much as being called blimmin Tracey! Everyone say sorry it's just they sound so similair, erm well no it's not my name has no E or R and doesn't start with T. Is it really that difficult.

Dont get me started on my 2nd name lets just say people seem to think I'm saying URINE

Sorry ranty rant there but heyho

No YANBU I however clearly am

It's not just the spelling, it's the pronounciation too. DS2 is Caleb....quite simple to pronounce I would have thought....apparently not!!! He gets cross now and corrects people if them call him Calem or Callum

Caleb has also been spelt Kailub (DH's friend who got short shrift from DS ) Kayleb/Kaylub/Kaleb (Dh actually wanted to spell it this way when he was born...guees what I said )

DS3 is Dylan...normal spelling...but people have to spell it Dillon or Dylon

I am Rebekah...people know it is spelt differently (tis actually the 'proper' spelling, so they come up with all sorts of weird spellings!!

Ignorance Squirdle, pure and simple

I know MrsSeanBean. I always ask how to pronounce a name if it is unusual I have afriend whose husband is korean and their 3 girls have korean names...I have asked how to pronounce them! Mind you, even if you tell people they don't often listen!

I would expect most people to spell Farser correctly - seems the most logical one to me.

My DD is Mollie and she is forever getting the Molly spelling. Most family and friends get it right but quite a few do't - and she is nearly 7 now. School and nursery always manage it right fortunately.

Have to say though that is doesn't bother me too much. When we chose the name we knew there were two spellings of it, so expected some errors.

We chose the Mollie spelling as I personally think it looks nicer written down, a bit softer, and also the older people we knew of called Mollie had the ie ending.

Aah see Squirdle I know a Caleb and a Dylan, so I would've spelt them that way anyway and FWIW I defo think Caleb is the nicest spelling dunnoe why just don't ike it with a 'K' I think it's chav for some reason.

I wanted to call my DS Dylan but DP hated it for some reason, so we ended up with Liam which never gets spelt wrong ever!

Mamadiva, you must have had a lot of diabetes-investigations during pregnancy then? I'm sorry, but I'm always going to think "Trace o' Urine" when I see you now

Squirdle - we have a Dylon too. He is purple

Oooh mine is red

My DD's middle name is Katharine, when we registered at the Drs, I told them "Katharine - with 2 As" They spelt it Kaatherine...

Fraser is easy to spell. People are extremely dense headed.

When I was in hospital after having DD the woman opposite me had a little girl who she had decided to call Phoebe. When some friends came to visit she asked one of them "So how is Phoebe spelt? Every person I've texted since she was born I've spelt it differently."

I was absolutely enraged that someone could choose a name for their child without knowing how to spell it. AND to text out a random variety of mis-spellings.

(sorry bit OT - but OP is not being unreasonable in the slightest!)

YANBU. Also, SeaShells, is Fraser's gran an idiot? I'm sure she isn't, and if she were suffering from a degenerative brain disease I'm sure FM would have said so. So I don't see why she should be let off the hook and the others not(I'm a hard task master, I know).

People can be incredibly lazy about names. When I used to teach English as a Foreign Language I could be bothered to memorise the spelling and pronunciation of all my students' names - some of them had 15 letters!

Mumof2Monsters - do people say 'huh? She's called HMegan?'

(I also do the 'with an h' thing with my name and then stand back to watch people's brains fry)

Squirdle - try putting him in the sink with a packet of fixative and he will be purple before you know it.

Dillon is surname, isn't it? Really annoying!