AIBU to think that if you are sending someone an email, and their first name is in the

[SerenityNowAKABleh]

address, you should be able to figure out how to spell their name correctly? I have just received an email starting with (kind of) "Dear SerenityKnow ..."
I've had this problem before. Someone else would email me, but use completely the wrong name in the email.

AIBU to respond with "Dear Idiot Who Can't Spell"

yabu

YANBU at all.

Drives me mad. My email address is my name and still people spell my name incorrectly.

GRRRRRRR

YANBU. This happens to me all the time. People just can't be bothered.

YANBU to be highly irritated.

yanbu a similar thing happens to me all the time (too difficult to explain on here). It drives me MAD.

My surname is also a fairly popular boys' name & I'm forever getting emails from people I've never met at work addressing me by my surname. Some numpties even do it repeatedly, despite having had a reply signed with my first name. They're generally the ones who look utterly confused when I turn up at a meeting.

YANBU - I regularly get an 's' added onto my surname for no apparent reason. And my headmistress at school spent 7 years inserting an 'n' into my first name which simply isn't there....it drives me mad!

Ooh yes, I get Dragon's thing as well - being addressed by my (boys first name) surname instead of my real name or Mrs boysfirstname...

My name is a variant on a very common name. People constantly misspell it, and that's before they even get to my hideous second name....

I'm so used to it now, I often don't even notice.

I get it a lot with my name, also a variant on another popular name. People fall into two categories, those who obviously can't be bothered to get my name right, (even if I can be bothered to say it's X, not Y, they still go on to call me Y), are probably not people I am going to forge long and lasting friendships with, and the people who care enough to remember and just know what my name is.

It doesn't 'annoy' me as such, but it does tend to make a difference to my overall impression of them.

I tend to forgive people who pronounce it wrongly, because my parents, bless 'em, decided to use the spelling that actually changes the pronunciation, without actually changing it, iyswim.

If I did use that pronunciation with my second name I would sound like a total knob.

...instead of just being one from time to time...

this annoys me a lot - i don't care in real life as my first name has about 7 different permutations of how to spell it and my surname could have an 'e' or not.

BUT in email it is important - if people don't learn how to spell my name (from my address) they end up getting the address wrong then usually blame me for not getting their email

I get this all the time- both my first and my surname are more commonly spelled with an 'e'.

I can let some stuff go, but I repeatedly have people asking me if I've spelled my own name wrong

I get this all the time at work. It is so frustrating when they are looking at the correct spelling on the screen and still spell my name wrong.

Then people send to my personal email and wonder why it "bounces" because spelling it wrong means it can't be delivered.

My surname is an animal and has 3 letters in it and I am constantly being asked to spell it!!!

{hands up who is now thinking of animals with 3 letters!!}

oh dear,

cow
pig
dog
emu
rat

errrr....

Fox?

is it really weird that the first one i thought of was emu?

One of them is correct but sorry fluffles it wasn't emu!!!

notice it by all means but snippy and bad mannered to retort

everything doesn't need to be an opportunity to score a cheap point and backchat

yes if it habitually happens,perhaps mention it tactfully but no smart arse response required

YA soo NBU, my first and my second names are regularly it really pisses me off!

Neither are particularly unusual.

Even when I point it out sometimes they still get it wrong.

Thank you. My name is commonly mispronounced by old men and Germans (mysterious ...) including my own grandfather and great uncle. That's kind of alright, but it you're looking at an email address and still manage to get it wrong, GAH. I do have to change the spelling for a different language, as my name in that language is an animal, and people snigger when they here it (it's not an embarassing animal, like emu).

OH MY GOD - this drives me fucking crazy.

Also, the number of times I have to spell my name out for my email address only to have them ring back saying 'it bounced back - can you give it to me again' because they weren't BLOODY listening. Urgh.

YANBU.

I actually started to tell anyone who spelt my name wrong in an email every single time they did it. It felt petty, but people soon stopped.

Serenity, I know your name. I too snigger and snurk when I see it or have to say it. DD has a Frau X who teaches her german who shares your name. Finally YANBU.