That's not my Name!

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Due to my brother Darrell's horrible handwriting, there was a memorable skiing tournament he participated in where, after his first run, the other skiers rushed over to him, patted him on the back, and said, "Wow! That was a great run, Barvel!"

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My dad has a name that's both a male and female one so when people call the house to sell things to us my mom's referred to as "Mrs." and he's referred to as "Ms." The only mispronounciations of the last name are on purpose 'cause you can't mistake it and cruel.

― Maria, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Everyone always chooses the wrong spelling for my first name (they never ask), and assume there's an E in my second name. With you spell it with an E?

― Graham, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That's weird. I thought other spellings of Graham were pretty obscure. I don't know what your surname is so I don't know about that.

My dad chose a pseudonym when he had to resort to telephone sales to make cash. It made him realise how few names are unambiguously spelled. He went for 'Richard Spencer' but of course even that could be spelled 'Spenser'.

― N., Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's the same as my brother's.

― Graham, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

on phone I often get "Alicia" and when introducing myself it's often "Elijah" There IS NO "J" DAMMIT!

― Elisha Sessions, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Good to know, Elisha. Is that your real last name? It's an even better name than Tracer Hand.

I'm surprised how many people spell my name A-u-t-h-o-r. Close friends, even. Arthur's a pretty ordinary name, isn't it?

― Arthur, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Every once in a while someone will pronounce "Sean" as "seen", and it just unnerves me. Only a couple weeks ago I reserved a book at a well-regarded nearby bookstore. I gave my last name to the woman at the desk, and she returns with a smile on her face and says "seen"? "It's Sean" I say back, flatly and through clenched teeth. I mean come on, how difficult is it??

― Sean, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

NAMES I WISH I HAD : cHARLES KILLIT, JOHN DESTRUCTISH , FAVIOR NOXON.

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My surname's easy enough to get wrong, but seldom very interestingly. What gets me (pointless rant alert) is people who hear my name pronounced correctly - Ca-za-rot-toh - but spell it CaSSarotto. How does that work? Is there something in our brains which rejects short Ss unless specifically told otherwise? I can forgive z, but double s PISSES me OFF.

I also get people putting Ps where the Ts should be, but I think that's just a speech impediment.

My father, whose name is Giorgio, had the best one - a letter addressed to George O'Casarotto.

― Mark C, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Casarotto is a fabulous name.

― Sean, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

THANK YOU SEAN

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I once got "Tim O'Phee". I assumed it was a joke. Sadly it wasn't.

― Tim, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

addressed to: Mr. Gill Anders, Mr. Gill Anderson, Mr. Landers, Mr. Flanders, Mr. Glanders, Mr. Ginanderi, Mr. Syllanclers,

there are a lot of [yes] dumber ones too.

― richard john gillanders, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Not that long after starting school we had a substitute teacher who made us write our names down so she knew where everyone was sitting. Sadly, due to my terrible handwriting, she thought my name was 'Olive'.

Which everyone else in the class thought was terribly amusing - for about 6 years.

― clive, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

A girl who lived in the same house as me at college was called stephanie jukes. anyway she was very open and frank about sex, so imagine the hilarity when she received her AA card (automobile association, not the other one) which had Miss S Juices on...

― CarsmileSteve, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Err sorry Elisha--is it really *so* surprising that people would mistake "Elisha" for "Elijah"? They're pronounced much the same, could be easily confused esp on phone or something. And anyway I always got them mixed up in Bible trivia.

In my case, "Laurel" morphs into Laura or Lauren and NO ONE can pronounce Girvan right on the first try.

― Pyth, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I often get called by my surname (cos it's also a christian name-type name), which really, REALLY gets up my nose in a hurry. I also get "Tim" a lot. I never get this sort of hassle when I refer to myself as James.

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My last name is Kilgore. Most people get the pronunciation right but way too many people have been asking me if I wanted to kill Al Gore (ever since his first term as vice president) or chant, "Kill! Gore! Kill Gore!" Last quarter the geography professor led the whole class into a fit of laughter over my name and how he probably didn't get my vote. Ha! Ha.

― girls don't compose, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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