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notprop wrote:

Fateweaver wrote:My girlfriends used to call me God. "Oh God, Oh God."

I wasn't going to correct them.

Is that as in - oh god, oh god, get this thing off me?

Pretty sure it's an... oh god oh god I think I left the oven on.

Ugh. My wife has a two name first name, Ana Marie, so it's always annoying having to explain multiple times that Marie it's not her middle name. Everyone, including the Pharmacist, seems to get that messed up at least one time.

My future Father-in-Law has taken to calling me 'Giles'. This is because his other daughter is seeing a bloke called Giles. I wouldn't care, but she's only been seeing him for a few months! I've been together with my missus for 6 years!

My surname is the thing that gives me the most gyp. It's Magee, and let me tell you - I've heard 'em all: Maggy, Majee, Mahgee, Mayjee...

It's pronounced just like the other one, the one with the small 'c' - 'McGee'! How fething hard is that?

And the one with the small 'c' can kiss my arse as well. It plagues my life. Because of that one, I constantly have to spell my name out loud to people.

"Ryan Magee, M,A,G, double 'E'..."

fething small 'c'....

I go by my middle name (my parents fault) so imagine the OP problem but 'cept with everyone.
Also I spell my middle name with one letter different then what is normal. So I have friends who have spelled my name wrong for years...even though I correct them.
I have name issues......

One of my 40k friends is named Bryan (or is it Brian?). He also has a room mate named Bryan/Brian. He began dating a girl named Ryan/Rian. The name antics are entertaining sometimes, especially for introductions

Actually, I do have a story!

For the better part of the past ten years, I was spelling my friend and gaming buddy Jamie’s name as Jaime. Now, as we mostly just see each other at the gaming store, I didn’t have a lot of call to write down his name, but it comes up occasionally. In email, and in writing down our names for a team tournament, for example. IIRC it was someone else on my Adepticon team, just last year, who asked me if “Jaime” was actually right, and so I double-checked, and Jamie told me the actually spelling. I felt like a bit of a tool.

I live on a street named "Caesar". You see that, where the "a" is followed by an "e"? For some reason many people assume I don't know how to spell it and I get mail to some similar address on "Ceasar". I've taken to pronouncing it "Kaisar" when I get asked my address, so I have the opportunity to spell it, but sometimes that doesn't work. On the bright side the mail gets through.

Name is Dan.

I get called Ben alot.

Probably my foreign Swedish accent....

Fun Fact: My americanized name is Dan, my actual name is Ansgar.

Karon wrote:Name is Dan.

I get called Ben alot.

Probably my foreign Swedish accent....

Fun Fact: My americanized name is Dan, my actual name is Ansgar.

I can see Brandon to Bernard or something along those lines....... but how the hell do you get from Angar to Dan

I have a couple of problems with people getting my name wrong. As my last name is Haines not Hines, Haynes, Hanes. I am not the underwear Haines! It has come down to me having to actually say i spell my name like the underwear only with an "i" in the middle. Also my first name is Christopher and my mom whenever i visit insists on calling me "Kissyfur" to piss me off.... i just want to strangle her when she calls me that. Note to self: Cant strangle mom when i go to visit her on Mothers day ill just have to let it slide.

Just call me McLovin.

That is all.

My first name is Rory, and people always seem to spell it wrong, putting an 'a' in the middle of it. I have no fething idea why, because it's not a terribly uncommon name, and it drives me nuts.

Most people don't notice anything wrong with the way they spell it, but when I first introduced myself to the my FLGS manager, he drew a connection between my name and Roary the Racing Car (you know, the children's show). He's started telling me to 'light 'em up' when I walk away and has the show's theme song on the store computer, ready for me whenever I walk in.

Oh, and one of the other store workers (a pretty cool guy) has picked up the habit as well.

Feth my life.

I've actually got two midde names, second being from an old family tradition where it gets passed down from first born to first born.

Occasionally I have to point out that I just have one first name and it's not said with the first middle name.

The main problem is that the local fish and chips place calls me John for some reason, none of the letters that make up my first name are even in John and my name obviously sounds nothing like it either


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Cheese Elemental wrote: I have no fething idea why, because it's not a terribly uncommon name, and it drives me nuts.

Most people don't notice anything wrong with the way they spell it, but when I first introduced myself to the my FLGS manager, he drew a connection between my name and Roary the Racing Car (you know, the children's show).

I see what you did there.

I have very little problem with my name
Its Scott Witchell, most it ever gets changed is to 1 T or to Mitchel (I have a friend called mitchel btw)

Person i really feel sorry for though is my friend who is Greek
Is name is Damian Kasioptis (Probalby spelt it wrong!)
No teacher in our school event tries to say his name!

EDIT: I've spelt it how it sounds i think rather than how its actualy wrote

People don't usually confuse my name but for some reason I know of two people who just call me something else, they know my name though. My name is Joshua and this one girl calls me Hector, which by the way is one of my middle names and one guy calls me Ray Liotta... Apparently I look like him (to him) but having nicknames is cool so I go allong with it. The biggest problem with my name is how common it is. Throughout my life I've had one or more people named Joshua around. Last year in school I had class with a Joshua, now there is one in my new school (ASE ftw) doesn't seem like much but this school has around 40+ people in it so we are together a lot. Finally, in my biggest choir, BCYC of the Bach choir, there are three permanent Baritones around right now, me, Joshua and you guessed it, annother Joshua. We all sit beside one annother and surprisingly there hasent been much confusion. Go figure

When I was introduced to the states in 1st grade, there were many 'james'-es in my classroom. We had to divvy up the nicknames, so we had james, jimmy, jimbo, jim P, jim D, and Jamie. Being english I had been called jamie as a child a lot. Later in life, I got tired of constantly being confused at who in the room was being addressed, so after a high school of being 'james kallend' as that is how they called me in role-call in classes, I broke free and became Jme again. That solved all the problems. I just spelled it more obvious.... J-me when I wrote my name. It's a nickname I can spell it how I want, right? Not a lot of Jamie or Jaime or Jme's out there, so I never had to worry again about wondering which 'james' was being referred to, and the odd spelling makes it pretty standoutish in other people's minds.

Y'know who I feel sorry for is politicians named Richard who became 'Dick' instead of 'Rick' somewhere in childhood. That's just a load of childish humor waiting to happen.

A guy in the town I went to college was running for mayor. His last name, I gak you not, was 'schmack' and his first name was Richard. You saw signs all over campus "Vote Dick Schmack". I never found out if he did that on purpose, thinking it would get the Beavis-n-Butthead vote of all the college kids but it was pretty damn funny. I saved one of his signs.

Another one, that would be great to get the Beavis vote, is Martha Fokker. I saw it in a movie long ago. It's just so stupid it might work.

My name is Jordan. For some reason, a few people used to consistently spell my name as Jordon. It was weird because even people who knew me pretty well did it. I always tried to correct them though and it hasn't happened in a long time.

One thing that does still happen from time to time though, is that I get called any other more common name that starts with a J. Usually it's something like Jason, but someone even called me Jeremy this year. It's kind of funny that they remember I have a J name but forget that it's Jordan...which seems like it would be easier to remember since it's less common, but whatever. I always laugh and gently correct people, or give them a good-natured razzing if I feel comfortable with them. It doesn't bother me or anything though. I'm pretty bad when it comes to remembering names, it usually takes me two or three times to remember (especially if it's a group introduction...those are the worst). Sometimes getting my name mixed up works out well though, as I can use it as an excuse to ask them what their name is again.

"It's Jordan, actually.....Don't worry, it's all good. What was your name again?"

I have absolutely no idea how to pronounce my girlfriend's last name. I can spell it, I can recognise it when other people say it but I cannot get my mouth around how to actually say it.

So far I've gotten by with never saying it, at some point though, well, hopefully she'll let it ride

My last name is 8 letters long, and contains one full vowel. This is only a problem when people are either reading my name from a page, or taking my name over the phone. I usually expect to spend at least 5 minutes correcting their spelling when its re-read for accuracy.

@Dogma - So your surname is something like 'Myngwyne'?

I had to abuse the 'sometimes 'y' rule' there.

I think its kinda fun to play with people when they pull the J-name mistake while drunk... yeah... sure... I'm "Jeff" for the night... next time I meet you I'm "Jeremy" and so on..

My wife had her name spelled incorrectly on the air tickets we had for our honeymoon

And people always get my last name wrong. It is not even as if it is uncommon, difficult to pronounce, or has a strange spelling. And it is almost always them adding in an extra syllable that has no relationship to the name as written as well - I thought people were supposed to be getting lazier, not making more work for themselves

And my Grandma just picks names at random to call pretty much everyone, which can be entertaining.

i have black hair, glasses, and my last name is potter....guess what every man, woman, and child guesses my first name as

edit-almost forgot, coworker of mine apparently forgot my name at one point, and somehow became convinced it was Tracy for some reason

This is not a real problem..

In primary school I knew a girl who's last name was cigarette. (whats the other word for cigarette brits .. thats what it was stupid swear blocker). Seriously.

But I would correct them.

Pfft - my own family can't agree on how to pronounce our surname (Koehler).

The half I'm in pronounces it with a long "O", silent "eh".
The wrong half (heh) pronounces it with a long "A", silent "o".

Considering that I've had Germans pronounce it with the long "O" only convinces me that I'm correct.

I thought Koehler, being German, should be pronounced something similar to Curler? I seem to remember a German defender who played for Borussia Dortmund with the same name.

EDIT: His name is spelt slightly differently, come to think of it.

greenskin lynn wrote:i have black hair, glasses, and my last name is potter....guess what every man, woman, and child guesses my first name as

edit-almost forgot, coworker of mine apparently forgot my name at one point, and somehow became convinced it was Tracy for some reason

I laugh when people do things like that. I once was in a car club with a fella that somehow thought my name was Andy. No clue why, its Brandon.......but dammit it made me laugh

Albatross wrote:@Dogma - So your surname is something like 'Myngwyne'?

I had to abuse the 'sometimes 'y' rule' there.

Oh no, there's only one Y in my surname. One Y, and one E. It also contains 2 Z's.

dogma why are you wasting your time with wargaming when you could be dominating the international scrabble circuit?

Unfortunately names don't count for Scrabble.