That's not my Name!

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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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