I'm Avery. Ayveree. Not like "'A very' nice day." And God help the next person to call me Aubrey...

This Tropers name. Is. NOT. I repeat. NOT. CHRISTINA. Or Christa for that matter. It's Regina. MY NAME IS NOT THAT DIFFICULT!

This Troper's name is Hunter. Apparently, people in Kentucky cannot pronounce a 't' that is in the middle of a word. Except for my family and about 3 other people, everyone calls me 'Hunner" >_<

This troper has the same name and he pronounces it "Hunner" when speaking to someone that speaks American English. By saying my name once in England the person I was speaking to thought I said "Connor".

Wait, if people in Ken'''t'''ucky can't pronounce a t in the middle of a word.

Sounds a bit Canucky, perhaps they should move up north.

This troper's poor sophomore-year geometry teacher was always harassed by his students. The last joke that I remember is that since the rest of the students didn't know his real name, they all called him Durwood. I remember him actually telling them "My name is not Durwood." I've confirmed that is is, indeed, not Durwood.

My name is not Bonnie, even though a crazy old woman I delivers papers to insists on calling me.

Some of this editor's relatives have the last name "Cockburn." Pronounced "Coburn." Elementary school must have been hellish.

This very pronunciation problem was lampshaded by at least one British TV commercial for Cockburn's Port.

This troper knew a girl in middle school with that last name. Cut to her best snickering over 'what if my cat had that last name?' Her cats name was maiyha (pronounced my-uh)

MIT's Lobby 10 (the central location in the school) has the name of "Richard Cockburn Maclaurin" carved into the wall. Yes, this troper has to resist the urge to snicker every time he passes it.

Due to all of her friends being unable to remember her name, this troper was referred to as "Other Girl" for a year and a half. Of course, given that everyone else also has a "Whoops, forgot your name" nickname, this isn't so strange. (The most notable are "Goth Girl" and "Quiet Girl")

This troper acquired a nickname that is a common girl's name completely unrelated to her own. When transferring to a new school, one of her classmates apparently believed that she had answered to this during roll call, when in fact there was no one with this name or any variations in the class. Due to this classmate spreading her new name around the school and convincing everyone else that she was joking when she told them her real name, this troper spent all four years of high school under another name, to the point that the name called at graduation shocked a few.

My name's. Not. ''Joan''.

This troper had two friends named Ryan in college. He dubbed one of them Diet Ryan and the other Ryan Classic, and both names stuck quite firmly. He really hopes they don't mind.

This troper is terrible with names, constantly forgetting them and avoiding using them if at all possible, settling with seeming rude by adressing people as 'Oi', or 'hey', and is on the verge of asking people at his new job to wear nametags for a week to get names straight.

Another troper, who does a good deal of temp work, tends to like workplaces with security badges because they double as nametags, since said troper is horrible at remembering names (not lack of desire/motivation, apparent processing/memory storage deficiency in her head).

You mean I'm not alone in this? I've taken to warn people about this so they'll know it's nothing personal.

I, too, forget people's names frequently. Girls especially seem to be offended by this.

This troper had been called "Lynx" in primary, because a diminutive form of her name in her native tongue ends with the word "lynx" (also in her native language). Her usual reaction to being called this was to scratch the offender.

This troper has had his last name misspelled and mispronounced more times than he can count. The proper spelling is "Fuerth" (it's an Americanization of the Swedish "Furth"), but it's been spelled Firth, Furth (oddly enough), Feurth and ''Fuergh''. How in the HELL do you get ''Fuergh'' from Fuerth?! University dorm mates have also dubbed me "Captain Kirk".

Another troper has had the same problems. His surname is properly pronounced "'''Vye'''-pond". For his sister's wedding in 1993, the tag on his rented tuxedo read "Jim Upland".

Oh don't get GracieLizzie started on this. Her surname is Bellerby, and it's prone to mispellings and mispronounciations. Some are understandable like Bellamy or Dellerby, but there are some really screwy ones - Bellereth, Bellabonce, Blurby.

This troper's surname is "Digney", however people seem to have a hard time spelling it for some reason. When she was recently on a tour group in Peru, the guy picking her up at the airport carried a sign saying "Dagwert", which has to be the most creative misspelling ever. Fortunately the sign also had the name of the tour company on it.

Can I take a guess at the original question? The g key is right below the t key on a keyboard. If "Fuergh" was on a typed letter, it was probably just a typo.

This troper's mother's name is Erna. That's E-R-N-A. Not Emma, Ema, Irma, Erma, Verna, Vera, or (in one notorius mailing-list case) Grna.

A high-school friend's name was Chrysten, but was misread by a substitute teacher calling roll as "Chester." We all made ''sure'' that one stuck for the next three years.

This troper became so enraged at the constant mispronunciations of his last name (Armbruster rhymes with rooster!) that he's settled for slapping umlauts over the U and hoping for the best.

This troper's mother's first name is Pam, and her last name ends in -son. She's a teacher. Every year, someone in her classes misremembers her name as "Pamela Anderson".

Otting. AHT-ing. Not "OAT-ing". Two Ts. Is that so hard?!?

My last name is not SUSAN. It's Souza! How many times do I have to say it?!

the Writer}} This troper has had her name (Bronwyn) pronounced so many different ways it's not even funny. She has been called Bromine, Bromlyn, Brollin, Brownie, Bromley, Bronin, Ronan, Robin, Rollin, Bromyn, Bobbin, and Brunswick Stew. (She ''still'' does not understand this last one.)

Yep! This Bronwyn has been referred to as all of those. Also, Robert.

Alasdair. No, not Alastair. Not Alisdare. NEVER ''ALAN!!''

This troper's mother's maiden name? '''NOT''' "Strange." There is no "E" there. There was that one decidedly awesome piece of junk mail addressed to "Strange Maybe," though...

There was also that one annoying substitute teacher who somehow managed to mangle her real first name (Alexandria) into "Alexis." And he called her that. All. Day. Long. Given his, er, reputation, this may have been entirely malicious.

This troper is Travis Ellen Brand. Got sick of being mistaken for a boy for years, started going by Ellen. I have been called Tracy and Emily, usually, but there have been others... I used to punch people in elementary school for using "Travis" to tease me, after the change.

{{ThisTroper}}'s mother sometimes calls him and his two brothers by each others names, sometimes needing to go through the whole list before getting it right.

Another editor's grandfather was heavily involved in her upbringing, after raising his own daughter and two stepdaughters (along with three sons and two stepsons), with the result that her grandfather routinely called the editor by her mother's or aunt's name, and sometimes took several tries to hit the correct name. The same editor's father-in-law routinely called the editor by her mother- or sister-in-law's name (and the editor's mother-in-law frequently mixes up the names of her husband, two sons, and brother). The troper also can manage to mix up the names of her current pets, who are of differing genders and ''species'' (male cat, female dove).

This editor's mother will often go through a list of up to four or five names, depending on who lives in the house at the time, including the names of the ''cat and dog'', before reaching the name she intends to call.

This editor is guilty of this himself - but then, his whole family is.

Both 7}} my parents do this. You'd think that after 10 years of having 3 kids, they'd have figured it out by now.

This tropers mother will invariably call her two sons by her any one of her brother's names if she so much as thinks of them.

This troper is Hilary and her sister is Haley. Our parents constantly mix up our names. (Back when we had one, sometimes the ''dog's'' name was a possibility as well; the fact that said family pet did not have a name that would make a plausible human first or last name did not appear to factor into this.) Members of her maternal extended family have also occasionally called this troper by her mother's name, although at least that's understandable.

This troper's mother constantly calls him by his older brother's name. It makes sense, kinda, since said brother's son is called my name, and his younger son is called his older brother's name.

This troper's mother often goes through all of her four daughter's names before she gets the right one. Sometimes she says the same (wrong) name twice. We call it "Joogeolivicking".

This troper does this with her friends. She'll often go through about three or four names, quite frequently including her sister's before getting the right one.

THis troper's mother has this problem with him and his two brothers. Oddly, so do people who have NEVER MET MY BROTHERS. As in, anyone one who gets my name wrong will ALWAYS call me either Matt or John (my brother's names) even if they don't know I have brothers.

This troper is another one who has been called by the dog's name, which is a very doggy and not at all human-sounding name. More usually, my mother mixes me up with my sister, my aunt or her friends at work. (When she's ''very'' preoccupied, sometimes I get mixed up with her boss. Which is not a compliment.)

This troper first met several of his current friends at a game of Dungeons and Dragons. One of them could not grasp that my character and I had different names, and referred to me as my fictional character for well over a ''year''. Ironically, said character made it a point to refer to the other party members by brief descriptives (Girlhair, Elf, Idiot, Explodicus, Swordicus, Manbitch, That Girl, Thief, Rummy, Treehugger, Two-Stick, Lennie, and Sparkle Fantastic), and everyone else we meet as Steven. It's a quirk inhereted from regularly being the only survivor of many a TotalPartyKill; Why bother to learn their names when they're just going to die in a week?

This troper's surname is an alternate spelling of a common male first name--so naturally, no one ever gets it right on the first try. Her middle name is an alternate spelling of a traditional female first name--no one gets that right, either. All this, and she had the misfortune of having the first name Jocelyn, which not only has roughly a billion spelling variations, but has also been mangled into Rosalyn, Gosalyn, Joyce, Joyce-Lynn, Jasmine, and ''Jezebel.'' This troper hates her parents from time to time.

This troper is often called Stephanie though she thinks it sounds different from Tiffani that people wouldn't confuse it. Also people love changing that i to a y or pronouncing with that long a sound you know like with gwen stephani.

This troper tends to justify the confusion of his name (Shane and Shawn or Sean are both Irish and mean the same thing) when people call him Shawn. Egregious examples are harder to ignore: This troper has only known one "Shawn" and all others have bean a "Sean". A fair few teachers have still called me "Sean" while calling roll. Even worse, this troper was friends with a Sean and the mismatching of names lead to Sean's mother calling him Shane on several separate occasions. One boss constantly calls me Sean when looking at forms that only have MY NAME ON THEM. And let's not get started on the ease of rhyming Shane and this troper's last name which looks in writing way to close to Bumble Bee despite the fact that the second "B" is silent and there is an "R" in the name. Would settle for people calling me Patrick after my middle name, but Pat always comes off as a girls name (after all, I do have an Aunt Pat) and Shane-train and Bumble Bee are nicknames that stick way to easily (the latter especially after the Transformers Movie, which is ironically where the original mess up came from. My own brother couldn't distinguish between our last name and the TF character when he was 5.)

This troper's name is "Sebastian". Most people get it right, except for one of my bosses, who insists upon calling me "Sabatine". Including in emails. With my correctly spelled name as the email address. Then of course there's my surname, which is extremely Dutch (and rather rare, even in Holland). Being born and raised in Australia, this means that it's been misspelled and mispronounced more times than I've had hot meals. Oddly enough, most people don't seem to have any trouble with my middle name, "Johannes".

This Troper was never really consistently known by her own name until she entered college. Her own family genuinely can't pronounce the name "Breann" (variant spelling of "Brianne") and usually call her a sort of two-syllabled "Bran," when they're not calling her her mother, aunt, or ''cousins''' names (This troper still needs to ask her identical grandma how she can mistake a tall, blonde, skinny mother of five for a short, dark-haired, fat childfree student). To her classmates and teachers, she was always "Pokeyman girl," "Raisin Bran," virtually any name starting with Br- or R- ranging from Brianna or Brenna to ''Bryan,'' or a variant of her last name altered to contain the word "smell," or a reference to a TV show whose name is the same as her surname. Eventually she gave in and used it as her screenname. This troper knew she had befriended one of her childhood bullies when he started calling her by name.

This troper's real first name (which is not her username) lends itself to an affectionate shortening which she ''cannot stand''. Of course, as a small child people found the rage hilarious and so used it all the more. When she moved house (and school) aged nine, she made it her mission to never be called that again. So far, it's working - close friends call her by her username, and everyone else just uses her full name. Now if she could just convince her little sister...

This troper had just the opposite problem, a shortened name that people would sometimes lengthen. My name is Chad. ''Just'' Chad. ''Not'' Chadwick. I know that Chad is often a shortened form of Chadwick, but that is not the case here. It's on my birth certificate as Chad.

This troper has a rather unusual surname ending in "...all", but people and businesses have a tendency to misspell and/or mispronounce it as either "...ill" or "...ell". (I've pretty much given up trying to get the Phone Company to correct their bills.)

The surname is Lang. Not Long, Lane, or Lake. LANG.

This troper had the misfortune of having both an unusual last name ending with an S and a lisp. Things got to the point that when someone ask my name, i just show them my ID

This troper's real name is MATTHEW. As in the biblical tax collector turned apostle or the crow from Sandman. Not MATT, though atleast that's understandable. What's odd is having a law teacher refer to this humble scripe as MICHAEL, as in the arch angle, for an entire year. Worse was another whole year of having a fencing team locker that this troper paid for labeled MICHAEL. It didn't help at all that one of the senior fencers was an actual MICHAEL with enough fanboys that this troper almost got beat down by a mob for "stealing" from his locker. And even after that incident people a year later still believe this troper has a brother somewhere named MICHAEL. MICHAEL is also apparently a common way for everyone to say MATTHEW because it happens a whole lot besides the examples. This troper has even received wrong forms and tests back from misc. MICHAELS. This troper has even received a college application with MICHAEL COLLINS. This troper swears there's an EvilTwin somewhere.

Really though, how can you get the name Matthew wrong? It's a common name, people around the world know how to pronounce it, and even in Hong Kong [yes, I understand that it is not very exotic, but I live there, and if it makes you feel better I can give Taiwan as an example] there's a Matthew and a Michael coexisting peacefully in my grade, and no one gets their names mixed up.

This troper absolutely '''''hates''''' going into restaurants and coffee shops where they have to call your name to give you your order because no matter how well she enunciates, people always get it wrong and yell it out for the whole restaurant to hear. It's ASTRID. Not Astrit with a T or Astry with a Y and it sure as '''''HELL''''' isn't ASPRIN. It's ASTRID. Even though it's Scandinavian, it shouldn't be that hard!

Well, judging from some of the creative mis-spellings above, be thankful nobody's ever called you "TARDIS"...

This troper has the same problem with coffee shops. The name is Kira, not Kiera, Kyra, Kiara or Kara, or even Kyira. And don't even get me started on all the substitute teachers who've pronounced it wrong over the years. It's K-ear-ah, not K-eye-ra.

Kira? So has anyone called you Light yet?

Philistine. Clearly the correct term of address is Nerys.

Of course. I get called "Shakira" more often, though, and I really hate that.

This tropers real name is Sigurd, like this fellow here. When he was in school it happened several times that when substitutes read his name from the list, it would somehow turn into "Sigrid", a female name, to general merriment. Another time he got called "Sigrun" (an uncommon female name), and when he ordered some books from a website, they came in a package adressed to "Sverre", which is at least a male name.

When this troper was crew on a play, the director called her her sister's name, Beth, despite being constantly corrected. In one annoying instance he said "I'm sorry I keep getting your name wrong, Beth." Non-sarcastically.

Apparently, the names "Victoria" and "Veronica" are very easily confused. Along with unwanted nicknames of "Vicky" or "Tori".

This troper has heard more variations on her nickname 'Lulu', then she cares to count. 'Lucy', Lilly.. is it so hard? And of course, it's a simpler nickname to 'Lucretia'....

This troper's name inexplicably became Jim in highschool, to the point where people who knew Jim didn't know who Thomas was.

This troper, Dillon ('''''not''''' "Dylan"), has been called David, Daniel, Darren, and (by an acquaintance who happened to be very drunk) Darryl. And had his name misspelled as "Dillion" and "Dilan" countless times, by friends, relatives, and official school documents alike, without even getting into "Dylan".

I feel for you. This troper is actualy "Dylan", but has been mispelled "Dillon", "Dilyn", "Dylin", and for some reason, "Dyln".

Besides spelling variations (most adding Ls, Ns, or Hs) and simple mispronunciations (sometimes malicious), this "Alana" has also been Allanya, Alan, Adam, and ''Alone''-- the last on a business letter!

This troper has the last name Gregoire; as a result, quite a few people have called him Gregory by mistake.

This troper has a somewhat unusual example; a CloudCuckoolander friend has a habit of renaming everyone he knows. Not to names which bear any resemblance to the original names, and not to random names each time -- when he first meets a person, he assigns them a name and then uses it consistently. Initially, this troper only got "Mr. X" out of him, but in an example of FirstNameBasis, eventually became Jason X. This troper's real name has no relation to Jason.

This troper's first name is Jamie, thank you very much. Not the Spanish Jaime (pronounced hi-may), not Janey, not Jeannie, and not James. (I'm a girl, for pete's sake!) Her surname is also misspelled/mispronounced all the time- Farnik has been spelled as Farnick and Fernik and we have received telemarketers asking for the Franciks, the Frantics, the Francises, and (my personal favorite) the Farnsworths. Not a complicated name, either first or surname, but NOBODY.EVER.SPELLS.IT.RIGHT! People i've been best friends with for years will give me birthday cards adressed to Jamey. This has really grown into one of my pet peeves.

This troper's first name is Andoy, and only his family and closest friends do not mistake it for Andrew, Andy (yes, the "o" has significance), Doyle or other such stuff. Another part of my name, Escucha, is something nearly no one I've met, has gotten right the first time. Or the rest of the times, really.

This trope is me and my family all over. Check it out:

Niece named Navaha (sounds like "Navajo," right? Nope: nuh-VEY-uh) so my brother could spell it without fail. I gave dire warnings about the trouble she'll have, offered many alternatives that wouldn't get drastically mispronounced... no one listened.

My own name: ''Alethia''. Slight misspelling of original Greek ''Aletheia'', but much beloved name. Has netted me, among others: ''Alicia'', ''Alyssa'', ''Alyssia'', ''Aletha'', and ''Athena''. Classmate whose native language lacks ''th'' sounds called me ''Alice'' for months, which I cheerfully accepted as a rather unusual MyNameIsNotDurwood moment. Currently have a newsletter subscription for ''Athethia'' which I've been too amused to correct.

Last name: ''Cyrus''. Nets us mail to ''Mrs. Cypress'', ''Mrs. Sirius'', ''Mrs. Virus''....

More amusingly, for combination with SpellMyNameWithAnS, people seem to intuit ''Syrus'', no matter how clearly we spell our name for them. E.g., they'll input it into computers repeatedly and then tell us we don't have an account. I once went to vote at college, where they had three moderators set up to cover different sections of the alphabet; I went over to the A-thru-C-thru-''something'' mod, said ''and spelled'' my name... and he turned to the mod at the other side of the room and said, "She's yours."

Brother ''Madison'' got his name right before the movie ''Splash'' made all the mothers name their little girls ''Madison'' (apparently glossing over the joke that was a culturally unaware mermaid ''taking a boy's name''). Now ''Madison'' is no longer an option for boys, and my brother gets mail and phone calls that assume he's a girl. Most famously with the court paperwork that acknowledged him as father of the child in question, and then referred to him with the feminine pronoun....

Dad's name is misspelled from normal, reversing an AE combo. At least it tells him apart from the two other men in the area with the same first-last combo.

And, last but not least, Dad's bad penmanship somehow managed to scrawl out brother's name of ''Daniel'' so poorly that the health card came back for ''Pavio''. Go ahead, try it: That's not as far of a stretch as you might think.

I think I was the one who fixed that one! I'm pretty sure I saw such an instance while doing small-business-group health insurance eligibility (my functions included fixing errors committed by the enrollment people).

This troper (Jillian) has a strange track record of being called by names that do not even vaguely resemble hers. She was called "Sophie" by a family she babysat for, no matter how many times she corrected them, and was once mistakenly entered into a tennis tournament as "Elizabeth."

Everyone agrees this troper doesn't look like someone with his common first name. No one agrees on what to call him instead.

In early elementary school, some school officials mistyped or misread this troper's name or something, which resulted in my surname getting an "S" appended to the end for several years, though that one was eventually cleared up and, after a move, was never heard from again. More common is the mispronunciation, though - in the middle of this troper's surname, there is an O and two Ds, which are far too often mistaken for two Os and one D. And though my first name, "Jason" (or a logical shortening thereof, "Jay") is usually remembered, I've been called "Josh" or "Justin" or whatever male J-name you can come up with. And then there's my paternal grandmother, who has no trouble keeping my personality distinct from my father's, but constantly screws up the completely different name. And my maternal grandmother - though she's never once misspoken my own name - is convinced my cat's name is "Gertrude", which is so unlike my cat's name that I can't figure out how she came up with it.

I'm guessing this is common with male J-names... "Justin" here often gets replaced with "Jason" or other J-names of similar length... I've never been particularly annoyed, but I've been considering going by my first two initials (J.J.) as a nickname to avoid it...

This troper (Sally) has been called everything from Sheila through Stephanie to "Samuel" (They weren't even trying to insult me, they honestly mistook me for a boy). Plus everybody spells my last name with a CH instead of a CK, and on one occasion, someone refused to believe me when I tried to correct them. Every teacher I've ever had has forgotten my name at least once.

It is ''pronounced'' Mick-kray. No, Mssrs. Mick-kray-uh, Mick-kree-uh, Mick-krah, and Mick-kree do ''not'' live here, I'm afraid you have the wrong number, Mr. Telemarketing Asshole.

This troper has been going to the same school for NINE YEARS now. They still misspell my last name "Vaughan" as "Vaughn" on every certificate, permission slip, and whatever else my name is on. Even on the Spelling bee certificate, though Hilarity Ensued.

This troper's school has four sports houses. One is called Vaughan, and everywhere I see it being spelt 'Vaughn' by students. I tend to facepalm when I see this, unless I'm snarking about the other spelling mistakes in whatever I'm reading.

This troper has the poor fortune to have a double-"o" in his surname. People categorically pronounce it a as a long "o", despite the true pronunciation rhyming with the fast majority of words ending with the same three letters (the primary exception being "food"). That it leads to people making the assumption that I am so impolite as to have a warning built into my name is not amusing in the slightest. Type-B corruptions abound.

This troper, who in RealLife goes by the name of Raymond, once had an interviewer spell his name as "Freman." '''WHAT. THE FUCKING HELL.'''

For some reason, a lot of people seem to assume that Inkki's name is Nikki, whats more annoying is that I have had bills where they also called me Nikki as well and to top it all off, if I google my name, even Google itself says '''Did You mean: Nikki'''.

This troper is named Hil(l)ary. She is often called Haley (which is her sister's name, but only maybe half the people who use it by mistake know that), and one of her neighbors' kids called her Hillarine for something like two years, which always befuddled her but she never actually bothered to correct it.

My surname is pronounced "Cone", not "Kahn". Most people will at least remember this after I correct them, but my high school principal mispronounced it consistently for all four years. At least he got it right at graduation...

My surname is Lavergne, with the silent G ''before'' the N. Somehow, as my sister so eloquently put it, our name makes people temporarily dyslexic, leading them to pronounce it Lavernge (ending with a J sound.)

This troper's last name is cursed, it seems. Nine times out of ten, it is mispelled or mispronounced. Somehow, they turn Sauls, into (verbally) Sals, Suls, Salt (?!?), Salsa , Sauce, Sala, Sans , Saul and (on paper) Saus, Sal, Saul, Salsa, Saltan, etc, etc, etc.

This Troper is called Jake. Not Jacob. Not Jack. Not Jade, or Jay. Jake.

He also knows two girls who came to his school at the beginning of this year, both were blonde. One was Parke, the other Lucy. He kept getting the two mixed up, and occasionally, just for fun, even thouch Lucy has dyed her hair, still calls either of the two "Parkucy".

In addition, his grandmother is terrible with names, often calling any of her four grandsons by each of the other three's names in succession, followed by "Peter-Paul-Mary!" as a bit of self-parody.

My last name is an English mispronunciation of a German misspelling of a Polish river named after an animal. I'm so used to people mispronouncing it that the few times people guess accurately, I often "correct" (to the wrong way!) them out of habit. And my first name is a somewhat common one that can be spelled two ways. Mine's not spelled the more common way. (I joke that I go by aliases because no one can spell or pronounce my name)

This troper has lost the count of how many times she has her first name misspelled and having to spell it letter by letter each time, but since ''it is'' a very rare name with a difficult spelling with includes two "n" and has a final "Y" who is pronounced like the Spanish "I", she understands it (and she encourages people to call her by a diminutive formed by the three first letters of her name). However, she would like that her relatives stop calling her by ''her sister's'' name, who for some bad parental naming choice shares the same initial sound. At least that's better that the situation years ago, when their maternal grandma insisted in call both girls by their mother and her deceased sister names, ''despite them being written and pronounced completely different than ours and having no similar sounds between them'', just because the cadence of each pair names was vaguely similar.

This troper once met a girl named G''r''abriela. Allegedly, her mother wanted to name her the old fashioned "Gabriela", but since she was aware of that repeated mispronunciation she decided to baptize her baby with that variation. Ironically, everybody insists in "corrects" her name, over and over.

This troper's last name is Pacek. No, it isn't pronounced Pakek, Pasek, Paysek, Paycheck, Peacock, or ''Pancake (seriously, wtf?!)''. It's Polish (although not really noticeable or common) and its pronounced ''Patsek''. Mispronunciations used to get me mad when I was younger, but after realizing that no one will ever get it right the first time, I just go with Paycheck.

Polish seems to have a bit of a problem with it. There are stories of people named "Zając" (pronounced "Zayontz") having their name pronounced like "Zey-jack".

This troper has the misfortune of having an uncommon first name and an impossible to spell or pronounce French last name. Her first name is Janelle. Not Jenelle, Janel, Ganelle, or Genelle (or variations). And my last name's pronounced like "long time", not "long tang"! One vice-principal once managed to make her last name sound ''Asian''. On a side note, people love to come up with ridiculous nicknames, most famously Janellie-bean (shortened to bean, if said person wanted to get on my nerves fast). She was also once called Nigel by someone in her Media Studies class, and it stuck for the rest of the year (along with the name D-Link several years before, after the CD player she used to always listen to). She can't help but be glad she hasn't been called any red-head nicknames.

This troper quarantees no English-speaker will ever pronounce his last name right (since in Finnish things are pronounced quite differently). However, he wishes people would atleats write it correctly. So far he has seen it written as mr. Uttu, mr. Utu, mr. Kuuttu, mr. Outo (Finnish for strange), mr. Vuttu (replace first u with an i for the finnish equivalent of the f-word) and mr. Uutu. And this happens very often. He often jokes about getting his name changed into somethign easier to pronounce, like Maladath il Ered'nash.

This troper worked in a radio station newsroom. The newscaster called him "Richard," which is the right length at least, and "James," which isn't even that.

This troper has gotten the junk mail for the following last names: Hope, Polk, Pulp, Pepe, Lopez (?), Pape. Palpe, Poltz, Holtz. Hint: Head of the Catholic Church, stupid Junk Mailers.

This troper's name is not Lisa, Liza, Lori, Lauren, or ''Debbie''. But she's answered to all of those at one time or another.

This troper's surname is ''Sprague'', pronounced to rhyme with ''plague'' - and yet she manages to get Sprawg (rhyming with ''frog'') all the time. At least that one makes sense. Less sensible are Sprewg and Spreeg. I still don't know how they come up with those. Oh, and there's Spurgoo... Yeah.

'''THIS TROPER IS NOT FREAKING MADISON.''' Damn you, ''Splash''...

My name has two syllables. No, I don't care the last is only one letter long, it's still part of my name. Stop leaving it off.

This Troper's name, Stephen, is consistently being misspelled as Steven when heard, or mispronounced as Stephan when read. In high school Spanish, we used to routinely introduce ourselves in Spanish and write down our classmates' names as part of a bingo-type game to be played later. This troper got so annoyed at people screwing up his name he started simply introducing himself as "Steve." Luckily he gets to also weird people out at times by virtue of the fact he was named after StephenKing.

My father once had trouble remembering his neighbor's name, and so kept referring to him as "Pete". One time, he was telling someone about how he kept referring to this guy as Pete "...and his real name is John." At which point my mother corrected, "No, his real name is ''Dave''."

We get plenty of mistakes with our surname, also, which is Nathanson, pronounced like a patronymic (though I'm not sure if it is). Misspellings I've seen are Nathansen and Nathenson. Mispronunciations we've heard over the phone are NA-thanson (short a), Nathason, Matheson, Mathis, and of course, people calling and asking for Nathan. I'm determined to name my firstborn son Nathan for this reason.

...and being named Nathan Nathanson strikes you as a good idea?

My name has a short 'e'. It is ''not fucking pronounced as 'Meegan' ''.

An induhvidual who goes by the name José is constantly called Jorge, even by his family. It's not that the names are that similar, but said induhvidual has an uncle named Jorge, and even his own mother seems to forget who she's talking to.

This troper's last name is four letters long. ''Four letters''. And she's well aware that it rhymes with a slightly more common one, and of her tendency to mumble, so she generally tends to spell it out when introducing herself. Ask her how many school officials have then ''immediately'' turned around and started to look up records for a (troper's name) ''Ford''.

This troper is named Chris, and is constantly amazed at how many people call him Mike. I still can't figure out ''why'', exactly.

This troper's first name is 'Xavier', pronounced 'hav-YER'. And yet after several repeated introductions of 'Xavier, with an X', people in his country still pronounce it 'save-YER', much to his annoyance. He plans to go by his middle name in college, but given that it's 'Lourenço', pronounced almost exactly like 'Lorenzo', he is expecting the worst.

I'm Jessica. Not Jennifer. (And not Niki, either, but that's a joke for another day.) It should ''not'' be that hard, but apparently I'm not alone. Another Jessica, upon being introduced to me at a conference, immediately grabbed my hand and asked, "Do people call you 'Jennifer' ''all the time''?"

My name is Matthew. It seems like half the people I meet initally call me "Michael", which makes me point out two things to them..."Number one: The name 'Matthew' is not a hard one to remember. Number two: 'Michael' and 'Matthew' don't sound that much alike."

Alex. Alex, not Adam. Seriously now, it's simple.

It's Heleen. Not Helleen, Helen, Hélene, Hélène or Helena. And it's pronounced 'Heh-lain'. Not too hard, now is it?

When this troper's co-senator in student senate annoys him (which is almost daily) he begins to call her Eleanor instead of Rebecca. Everyone else hates her just as much, so she gets really crazy about it when nobody corrects me or even joins in.

It's Erin. Start's with an E, is a feminine name, and is of IRISH original not HEBREW. I understand all of the little notes written by great-grandparents when I was a baby (given that Erin only became common a few decades ago), but I swear every teacher/boyfriend/employer I have ever had has insisted that my name is, in fact, Aaron. Including one friend who's middle name is Erin.

If it makes you feel better, I've known at least two girls with that first name, and I would NEVER make that mistake.

Just to clarify, it's pronounced like Ear-rin, right? If so, I know your pain. My grandmother comes from a small town of the same name, and ''everyone'' I know says Aaron, and I have to correct them. I actually had an argument with a friend on the pronounciation, who said that since she used to have a friend who pronounced it like "Aaron", it had to be the right one; I, of course thought ''I'' was right since my grandmother came from the small town and everyone said "Ear-rin" there. She recently corrected someone who said it was this, and thankfully didn't question.

My third roommate in college was an Erin dating an Aaron. They actually DID pronounce it the same.

Granted, 'Yale' is not a particularly common name, nor is it often used as a female's name, but really, it ain't hard. This Troper's BerserkButton goes off whenever someone deliberately tries to not make it sound like Yale University Yale. "Yarlay"? Really?

It's pronounced ''Jor-El''. Like Superman's Dad. Yes, that Superman. '''Not Gerald, it is not Jurr, or Jerome, or spelled with two rrs and an e. It's Jurell.''

My surname is Eiszele. Nobody who sees it can pronounce it, and nobody who hears it can spell it. It's pronounced EYE-z'l, not easel or eyezelli. I don't mind eyezelli so much, but I hear easel more often, and I cannot tell how it was derived. Is there a language that pronounces ei as ee?

English. Weird, huh?

"Your last name is just like (Famous Person)!" No. No it is not. It is ONE LETTER DIFFERENT. If famous person is so famous, how come you (general you) don't remember how to spell their last name? Would you say 'Mr. Abush' had the same last name as the President? NO.

I've been known to pointedly ignore people who call me "Ricky." Also, between AddedAlliterativeAppeal and the fact that there is a rather famous person whose first name is my last name with an R for a W, that mistake annoyingly common.

This happens in Chinese too actually. My name has been written/misread in a variety of interesting ways, and it's actually not that hard to write at all though. Plus most of the people at my church call me by my nickname, which makes me suspect that at least some of the newer members have no idea what my real name is.

This troper has a few pet peeves regarding her name. First and foremost, it's not pronounced "Marley"--there is an "i" in there. Second, if you even ''think'' of shortening it to "Mary", you are seeking to enter a world of pain. Third, any mention immediately thereafter of rowing boats or of life being a dream ''will'' be met with violence.

My last name's Shatzer, spelled and pronounced all sorts of ways, usually Schatzer or Shatner. Once my father was asked if he was related to William. The craziest spelling I've come across was Shatuvger.

This troper loves her name, but it's also her BerserkButton. It's Michaela, pronounced mc-KAY-la. ''Michaela.'' Not Michelle. Not Michella. Not Mackella. Not Michael-uh or Michael. And ''definitely'' not Micheala. To make matters worse, her last name is unpronounceable and unspellable.

If you're surrounded by nerds, and provided you don't hate the character/canon, you could say "like the girl in ''Transformers''"?

My name is Linnea, which is apparently hard to pronounce, but most people get it after a few corrections. However, in Elementary School, I had a classmate named Liana. Cue the inevitable mix-up. (We didn't even look anything alike)

MY LAST NAME IS NOT CHAPLIN, GOD DAMN IT. It's Chapin, like Harry. THIS IS NOT HARD.

Hi, I'm Erik. No, NOT Eric or Erick, Erik with a K. And my last name is a river in Norway, so don't even bother trying to pronounce or spell it correctly until I provide an explanation.

This troper's last name is 'Macintyre'. With a lowercase 'i'. I've had to put up with 'MacIntyre' and 'McIntyre' for years, even in highschool. Also one time I received a phone call asking for my dad, a 'Mr Ma-Kintyre'. The pronunciation was so mangled I originally thought it was a wrong number, although swiftly apologised, but the idiot caller had already hung up...it's a really common name, too. I also hate it.

This Troper has seen his surname, 'Weisman', butchered more ways then you could possibly imagine. Wiseman, Weissman, Wiesman, and even 'Westman' aren't so bad, but 'Wessym'? Seriously, WTF?

Subverted. This troper is one letter off from an internationally famouse actor. People think we have identical names. WTF. ONE LETTER OFF.

This troper's first name is Cara, yes, spelled with a C. NOT a K! And it is not Carla or Laura either. And it's not pronounced like 'care-a'. It's four letters, how can people butcher it so many ways?

Could be because some girls named Kara/Cara do pronounce it the way you don't.

Da_Nuke has a friend called José, a.k.a. Paco (short for Francisco). He also knows someone called Alejandre, a.k.a. Alejandro (Alejandre is his surname). His best friend also has an habit of resorting to "Timmy", "Jimmy Neutron" or "Lic" (short for "licenciate") whenever he forgets a name.

This troper admits that her name is a difficult one, and in no way expects anyone to get it on the first try, although it would be cool if they did. However, the number of syllables should be obvious. Everyone ignores the second-to-last last letter, thus making it three syllables, instead of four. Ironically, they also have trouble with her last name, which is extremely common.

This Troper's name is Galen. Pronounced like the word "ale" (as in beer) with a G and an N sandwiching it. This name is highly prone to mispronounciation and misspelling. One asshole even came to my house asking for "Juleen." Needless to say I was very unhappy with that gentleman. And of course, everyone assumes my name has a "y" in it. Gaylin, Gayland, Gaylord (and one interesting example of Galyn, don't quite know how that one happened). It's come to the point where I almost exclusively use my nickname outside of the house.

Never "Gallon"/"Gal-en"?

This troper has been called "Widget-mo-widget" by someone at school. To be fair, this person was somewhat of a cloudcuckoolander and does this to a number of people.

This troper's cousin had a classmate in high school named Anna, who got stuck with the moniker Gerbil for some reason. It got to the point where quite a few people knew her by that name only.

This troper used to be called "Raymond" on a regular basis by a high school English teacher, partly because he sat next to a Raymond with a similar build to him.

This troper's first name is fine, but his surname (Gemmell)... not so much. People who see it first tend to pronounce it with a soft G (as in "giant") rather than a hard G (as in "grape"), while people who hear it first tend to mess up the double letters. So far the misspellings he's seen include Gemell, Gemmel, Gemmil, Gemill, Gemmill and ''Jbushnell''. Didn't help at all that throughout secondary school most people (except, oddly, the teachers) called him by his surname.

My real name is Katherine. I can understand people calling me this if they don't know me well. I don't understand people picking their own nickname for me; I would like to take this opportunity to state that I refuse to answer to Kate, Kathy, Kates, Katerina, Kay, K-K, Kai-Di, Katelyn, Kat, or anything except ''Katie''.

Someone has to be pretty dense to mix up 'Cameron', either as an intentional riff or unintentional twist. I got over insisting I didn't like to be called 'Camera' or more desperately-shot-in-the-dark 'Camera-on' and simply informed someone, "You have passed the acid test for lame. Thanks for playing." I still get people from time to time who read it and call me 'Carmen', but I just give them a look of quiet sympathy that comes back to haunt them if ever they figure out their mistake. The one I really object to, even though it's relatively benign still manages to push my buttons, is 'Cam', and I put it simply as soon as someone asks, "No, you may NOT call me 'Cam'."

For that matter, 'DokEnkephalin' gets many misspellings, and some people who inexplicably shorten it to 'enk' when 'dok' is less awkward to say, but it's pretty comical when someone tries to pronounce it. I used the name in MatrixOnline, and sometimes during club parties I'd get a stammered ShoutOut from Awakened Radio: "Dokenn...kuhFALL in?" I tolerate it because, I'd never heard anyone use it verbally before I picked the name, and I still have yet to hear anyone pronounce it correctly.

{{Seanette}} gets renamed regularly. She can understand Shawna, Shannon, or Jeanette (especially in one high school class where there ''was'' a Jeanette in there too), but does not get where Cindy, Cheryl, or Sharon come from. She also loathes efforts to shorten her first name (there is ''no'' shorter form she can stand). She, for the most part, simply answers to anything close enough that she can figure out it means her (as long as tone of voice is polite-to-friendly).

A funny variation happens to This Troper's mother. Her first name is Treasure. Whenever she first fills out her name for something she is likely to get a reply back to Mr. Treasure as people assume that she accidentally switched her first and last names on the form.

This troper has a teacher who called a student Peave for about half a year. His actual last name is Peel. Thanks to this troper, Peave stuck and has become his nickname. The same teacher called Camille Carmelle. This troper has another teacher who refered to Cameron as Brandon. Hilarity ensued.

This troper's real name is Ben, but is called several different names ranging from similar sounding ones such as Ken and Glenn, to ones that have absolutely have no similarity whatsoever such as Jason, and Kelly. One of his teachers consistently called him Patrick for over a year (and this troper constantly hung out with a friend of his who WAS called Patrick and always assumed the teacher was talking to HIM) until he found out and corrected her...and is always referred to as Matthew by his mother's co-workers despite multiple corrections and several meetings.

On top of that, his SURNAME is frequently misspelled as well, mostly by people who seem to think that there are TWO "e"s in the name, not one. He also has actually once received a letter addressed to him that had completely butchered the name to be spelled a C, a Y, and a Z...three letters that his name most definitely does NOT have.

Certain names are insanely easy to misspell and mispronounce at the same time. Case in point, I know a couple of people with the first name "Sol," which means "sun" in various languages. I've seen their name written as "Saul," "Soul," "''Soil''," and "Salt," among others. Their last names get the mispronunciation treatment too. I always found it odd that people would pronounce "ca" as "kay" instead of just "ka".

My Surname is Ol'''of'''son. Not ''Olson''. I am NOT related to the Olson twins, okay? So stop asking.

Are you related to Jimmy Olson?

No, my name is not "James." Yes, "Jaime" is my real name, not a nickname. You want to talk to a James from my family, go talk to my oldest uncle Jim, his son Jimmy, or HIS son James. Oh yeah, and people spelling my name as "Jamie" more than once is one of my biggest pet peeves.

I get that 'Dylan' could be read as 'Dye-lan', but how the hell do you get 'Cliff' or 'Kyle' or, and this really gets me, 'Merry'. I don't get it! And that's not even counting when people get my first name screwed up, I am NOT Barett, Bobby, or Barny! It's Bartlett, and I can't go by 'Bart' cause that's Dad's name! And don't even get me started on my last name. There. Is. NO. V!

This editor's name is Zackarias, yet somehow, someway, many classmates in his high school began calling him Stanley, or some varient thereof. He doesn't mind that much, though.

My name is Aaron. Two As. One R. Absolutely no Ls.

I know that "Tamar" is uncommon. I know that the way I pronounce it is also uncommon (TAY-marr as opposed to tuh-MARR). And I know that Tamara is a very common name that's very similar to mine. So I can understand the confusion, I really can. But I've been called Tamara, tuh-MARR, Tamiera (???), and bizarrely, April. Really, you should be able to get it by the tenth try - I'm starting to think you just aren't ''trying''.

It's Shara. Sha like in shark, ra like in rabbit, not that hard. It's not Sarah, Sara, Shera, Sharah, Sari, Charlotte, Chara, Chera or Chewre (still don't know how that last one came about)And my surname is Salt! Not Sale, Selt, Sault, Solt or any other phonetic nonense. It's a word that is used every day, how can you get it that badly wrong?!

Mispronouncing and misspelling this troper's names is definitely her BerserkButton. Thankfully there are more Rachaels nowadays than Rachels, but it is still spelled this way by everybody on first try. People have corrected her (shouldn't she know how to spell her own name by now?) As for her surname, Eyre, is it really so difficult? ''Jane Eyre'' is one of the most famous books in English, for crying out loud! It's not spelled 'air' or pronounced like 'tyre'! Not to mention the horrible tendency people have to add an 's' on the end, for absolutely no reason. She once added an 's' to the surname of a nasty lunchlady who kept doing this and ended up in detention. Completely unfair.

Living in Germany this troper got used to his Name ''Kenneth'' being mangled quite frequently. The worst pronounciation he ever heard though, was ''cAn-it'', even after repeating his name five times.

My name is Sophie, not SOPHIA. No one seems to know how to spell it correctly, either. "Sofi" is a common one, for some reason, which is annoying.

This troper's last name is usually said wrong on the first, and several times after, try due to it being German. The 'w' is pronounced as a 'v'. For those that are obviously not paying attention when he says it, he didn't say 'screw me'

This troper's name is Kate, but she sometimes uses Katherine for work purposes. She has been called every possible variation on Katherine and frequently Karen. And, twice in ten minutes, Sophie.

This troper's surname is "Ingrem" but it is almost always misspelt as Ingram. Not only that but during the ''Who Wants to be a Millionaire'' scandal, she was frequently asked if she's any relation to Charles and Diana Ingram ...

My name. Is. Not. RUE-BUH (Ruben, if you were wondering). I don't know how people get this wrong in my country, it might just be pronunciation. Compare:

Rue-bun (proper).

Rue-buh (fuck you with burning candles).

And don't get me started on Rue-bin or Robin. Fuck's sake.

Can I just call you Zedd?

This troper has a double affliction of this. His brother looks close to the same as he does, and our names also sound similar. Teachers frequently get us mixed up. And on my last name, which is spelled M-I-C-H-E and pronounced like the mouse, is frequntly pronounced "Meesh" or "Mi-shay", which whenever it happens to me I tend to correct. This caused a bit of a mess during my brother's eigth-grade graduation ceremony. When the man got to his name he pronounced it "Mitch" and I shouted "MICHE!" from way up in the stands. He corrected himself and I think the crowd laughed.

This troper remembers having a pretty frustrating experience working on a school project where the classmate he was paired off was oddly convinced his name was Billy, which cropped up so much he eventually stopped bothering to correct her. His last name is long and easily mangled enough that he won't even get into the hundreds of variations he's heard, but his mom has gotten a somewhat amusing variation from trying to ''avoid'' mispronunciation: She's a teacher and just has students call her Mrs. K., so she once received a card from a student's parents that was addressed to Mrs. Kay. And now it's gone even further, as someone has called her Mrs. ''L''.

This Troper once accidentally misspelled FanFic/PrettyCurePerfumePreppy's author's alter ego's name (Bia Hoshigo) as Bai Hoshino when he created an Imagine Casting page for the fanfic. (And yes, the author did make a note of it when announcing the page to LiveJournal viewers.) The mistake has since been corrected.

For easier explanation, let's assume this troper's surname is Martinez (TranslationConvention, not to confuse you further). And his name isn't Martin (or nothing starting with M. He just likes to be called Mike). Some people, especially at work, often call him "Martin". Sheesh.

This Troper is hit by this very hard in real life and on the internet. It's a RunningGag by this time. Kurtis (Not with a C) Commanda (Not "Commando", "Commado", "Commandai") is [[InformedAbility clearly very hard to pronounce. I change my surname every math work sheet. One of my books has "Kurtis Communist" on the front, a worksheet "Kurtis Lieutenant", and a major project "Kurtis Cameraderie" . As for the internet, I have only met 3 people who I have confirmed to know how to pronounce "ethereal". The rest never tried, or tried and missed. Common mispronounciations include "etheral" "ethermal" "eternal" "etheral with all short es" and a couple worse. Some people never tried and just used my clan tag instead.

Okay. So. Amelia. Like Amelia Earhart, right? So why do some people call me Emily? Even if I mumble, it doesn't sound similar, does it? My Latin teacher made this mistake, and sometimes he still calls me Emily as a joke. It's not very common, so I guess I don't mind. What's more common is being mixed up with my sister. Sure, we both have long hair, but she has distinctive highlights AND glasses. So no, I'm not Stella. I remember one time when someone came up to me and said, "Wow, Stella, you look so different without your glasses." At one point, my sister got brought in for what I said. Even when I was brought in first. She doesn't even have the same classes as I do...she's even two years younger than I am...aarrrrrgh...

This troper has dealt with this problem for her entire life. (Speaking from now on in first person). I am bilingual (Hebrew, then English), and when I moved to the US, I decided to make my name in English as close as I could to my name in Hebrew. So my name is spelled Dana, but pronounced like Donna. Over the course of my life, I have been called everything from Dayna to Doh-na. I was even called Donny once by a little girl I knew. Note that I usually am understanding of this if it's an accident, but I don't tolerate it when intentional. But what really introduced this as a BerserkButton of mine is an incident in my high school. My yoga teacher has a good friend named Dara, so she occassionally calls me Dara on accident. One time, a classmate- keep in mind, none of my classmates in this class are friends, in fact they are mean to me- heard this and said, "Oh, like Dora?" And since then they all refer to me as Dora, like in Dora the Explorer. To say that I didn't like this was an {{understatement}}. At a certain point, I was passed by a freshman girl from this class, and the head of our school was within earshot. She decided that this would be an appropriate time to call me Dora. Having had my BerserkButton pressed, I yelled for the hall and headmaster to hear, " YOU WANT TO SAY THAT AGAIN, BITCH?" When I later explained this to our head of school, he agreed, to my great joy, that it was justified.

This Troper's true surname ("Rathinasamy") has always been mispronounced in high school. Just to make this clear, if anybody has heard of some guy named "Rathmaswamy" or "Rathinahsmy", please be aware that (s)he meant "RATH-in-a-saw-me". As in, "There is something called a 'rath' that lives in something called a 'saw-me'".

This Troper's first name is Catherine. Simple, right? WRONG. Her teacher was always calling her Katrina, even though she corrected him every time, but he was by no means the worst. Another teacher pronounced her name "Curtrin". It wasn't an accent problem either...

This troper's mother's last name... OK, people, it's not that complicated! Honestly, just because it has an X in it... I've seen it spelt with an S, which is incorrect, and a K, which is ''really'' incorrect, and a freaking E, which is just fucked up...

This troper's given name is Allyson. My sister's name is Ashlyn. You could count on my mother to remember that after twenty-odd years, right? Wrong. It's gotten to the point that she'll call for "Allyson" and we'll both look up and ask "Which one?"

Sixth grade. Horrible principal who didn't care a shred about anyone in the school. In a school of 135 kids, she couldn't remember my name. #QUOTE#'''Her''': Good morning, Brittany. #QUOTE#'''Me''': My name is Bethany, actually. #QUOTE#'''Her''': I know what your name is, Brittany. #QUOTE#By the way, there was not even another Brittany in the school.

This troper and her mother have this as a beserk button. My name is Alexandra, not Alexandria. The second one is a town in Virginia. Yeah, it's kind of a big deal.

My name is Stefan (pronounce: Stay-fun). No, not Stephen. Nor Steve. No, not Stef. Steffen it is not, either. Can you say "Stay"? Can you? Yes? Yes? Good girl! (/boy) How about "fun", ever tried that?

And then the surname comes up, which is German, and I'm a Dutchman. No, Linnemann, with twice double 'n'. No, not Lindemans, it's Linnemann. Ad nauseam.

This troper's family name is Spahn (pronounced Spahn). But throughout high school, people insist on pronouncing it SPAN or {{SPAWN}} (both the comic book character and the word related to reproduction).

I just want to make it known that MY NAME IS NOT TAMMY.

In seventh grade, my history teacher once accidently called me Steve (for the record, ''I'm a girl!''), after that, it took three years to get kids to stop calling me Steve. My best tactic was to just to not answer until they used my real name.

This Troper's name(Emelia) is cursed to be either pronounced Emma-lia or spelled with an A. Three teachers have also consistently called her Emily. Not to mention her last name, which rhymes with "Olson" and has had the first consonant dropped and replaced.

Don't call me me Jenina/Jolina/Angelica (what the heck?) or Dennis. It's ''Janina Denise''.

This Troper knows someone with the surname of Weed but everyone insisted on pronouncing it "Reed".

This polish troper's brother, who lives in the US, introduces himself as "Jersey", because he got tired of people failing repeatedly to pronounce and memorize "Jerzy".

My name is spelled "Evan." Not "Even." Or "Evon." Or "Evin." Or "Aevan." Yes, I have encountered ''all'' of those spellings before.

I have two brothers who are muchy more prominent in the social scene then I am. Our names are Tom, Travis, and Tim. I, being Travis, am constantly called "Timmy" or "TOmmy". Sometimes, even my parents do it. Hell, I even did it once.

Substitute teachers used to do this to my name (Kasie) all the time. It's pronouced KAY-see, not KASS-e. Though I did let a gym teacher call me Kass-e.

This troper, a high school freshman, is in an extracurricular club her sister was also in until last year (she graduated). Of course, everyone calls her 'Mini-[sister]'; in most cases, she can't tell whether it's an affectionate nickname or if they actually don't know her name. The head genuinely cannot remember it, and will unthinkingly call her by her sister's name even if her sister is ''in the room''.

This troper is named Cody. Not Cory. Not Tony. ''Cody.'' And let's not even get started on the last name, a French one whose pronunciation has only been half-Anglicized, meaning nobody will get it right on the first try.

Due to large amounts of angsting by me and a temper, my sister calls me Shinn. My name is ''Shaun'', damn it!!!

Living in Texas all my life, I've accepted that Texans cannot pronnounce the last syllable (or in some cases, last half) of my name. Introductions usually go as follows:

"Hi, my name is Christina!"

"Good to meet you, Christin'''e'''/Christy/Chris!"

I've learned that pretty much every person outside of downtown Nashville cannot pronounce my last name right. (It's pronounced MUH-LIN, not MOL-EN) And another half can't remember my given name. I've been called K.C., Sandra, Christie, Katie, etc. It's Cassie. It's not that hard.

My name is Maciej (Polish equivalent of Matthias), but almost every teacher I meet calls me Marcin (Martin) at first.

This troper's full name is not Josephina, or Josefina, or (once) Josepina. Her nickname is not spelled Josey, Josei, or Joise. She is Josie OR Josephine, and do NOT try to call her anything else, thankyouverymuch.

My name is Caleb. Several different people (from completely different social circles) will call me Jacob when they're distracted. Often enough that I answer to it.

A meta-Type "F": For a long while, I read Philbotneum]] Phlebotinum as '''Plotonium'''. Pronounced exactly as you would expect.

As you can see, I still have problems with that Trope.

My name is Miranda, and I have been called Amanda on several occasions. Unfortunatly, my cousin who died of cancer before I was born was named Amanda, which I have to sadly explain to people to make sure they don't make that mistake again.

This troper is Anna, which is a pretty common name. And this troper does not understand why people keep calling her Anne, Ann, Annie, Emma or Nanna. Yes, seriously.

My name is not Victoria, so you can stop calling me that now.

Please, people, my name is Cyn'''an'''thia. Not Cynthia. Or Shinta. All of those names have different meanings.

I remember hearing a band interviewed on the radio a long time ago - one member introduced himself as Booker, but the DJ apparently misheard him and spent the whole time calling him "Booger". Either Booker himself didn't notice, or was too polite to say anything.

My father was called Chipwood instead of Chitwood when he was in Jr. High gym class by the gym teacher. According to him, the teacher wasn't doing this to be cruel, he was just quote, "white knuckle stupid."

And my first name is Brian, and yet people seem to want to pronouce it Bryan.

My maiden name was Easterlin. Not Easterland, not Esterlin (seriously, how hard is it for so many people to spell 'Easter'?), not Easterling. I realize it's rare to the point that I have literally never met anyone outside my family with it, but jeeze, it shouldn't be that difficult. It's a holiday with a 'lin' on the end.

My name is Miranda. I don't like nicknames, so I always go by just my name. I have been referred to as Mirana (easy to get to), Mira, Miriam, Amanda, Anna, and as a crowner of How the Hell did you come to THAT conclusion, Ettienne. I cannot find a matching sound between Miranda and Ettienne to explain this.

It's Tanner. Not Taylor, not Tyler, and ''certainly'' not Tammy.

I've run into this problem a few times. My name is a variant of Alana, and pronounced exactly the same: Ah-l-aa-n-ah. But some people seem to insist on pronouncing it like it's spelt: Eee-luh-nuh. I've also been called Alan, Helen, Elaine and Ellen.

Gah. My name is Makenzie. Makenzie. ''Not that hard.'' Yet somehow people manage to mix in up with Mackinley, Mickey, Michael, and (and I have no idea how ''this'' happened), ''Nicole.''

MY NAME IS VERONICA. NOT VICTORIA, NOT VIRGINIA, NOT VIVIANA, NOT FUCKING VIAGRA.

I am not called Charlotte. I am not called Emily. I am not called Rebecca/Becky. Where do you people get these names?

Open a dictionary, look up 'Bad', turn it into an adverb by adding an -ly. It's so simple that even a toddler could pronounce that. So where do people find the ''R?''

I was born "John". People always want to seem more important or something, so they call me Jonathan. It's not Jonathan; I was born as John and my nickname is Johnny (I know, it's longer than "John", but that's been my nickname for years), and do ''not'' get me started on the spelling of my nickname.

This Troper's real name is Stephen, pronounced the same as with a V, and ONLY Stephen. It is not Steve, "Steffen," Stevie, Steve-easy (What!?) and definitely NOT Steve-O (This Troper HATES nicknames!).

My name is Gabi, short for Gabrielle. I have been called Gabriel or Gabriella by too many teachers to count. People also spell my name Gabby, Gabbie, Gaby, Gabbey, Gabbi, and have been called Debbie(ftw!?), Ashley, and Abby. How!?

Not to mention, people are always coming up with cute little nicknames. Some are Gabberina, Gabbers, Gabbs, Gibbs, Gibby, Gibson, and The Gabster. The only nicknames I will answer to are Gabi, The Gabster, and Cheese Face(long story short: I need to enunciate a little better)

This troper's last name is pronounced "Mickey", like Mickey Mouse. It is NOT pronounced "Mishay", "Meesh", or "Mitch".

My mother's name is Loni. She frequently gets called Lori and Lonnie, even by members of her own family, much to her aggravation.

As it turns out, Welsh is one of most difficult languages for the average English speaker to comprehend. My surname, Staley, is already heavily anglisized, from Stacklen (Stock-len, with a lot of phelmb on the first syllable) I believe. Even ''this'' infinitely-easier-to-pronounce word is often bastardized to "Stanley" despite the fact that I do not have an N anywhere in my name whatsoever! Even Spanish speakers get it right!

The Swiss French tend to completely mangle my last name. It's an english word, Household. We've gotten Oosehold, Househoo, Odleblir (??) and O-oh. This includes spelling. They then tell us that we need to make our name more French. Thanks, Mr. Vandelkov, I can see you don't take your own advice. Oddly, the French from France have no problem with Household, even though the spoken language basically lacks an H.

I have been called everything from Charlotte to Emma (when my name is actually Courtenay), and not ONCE have I appeared in a yearbook with the correct spelling of my name. Heck, one time I didn't even make it ''in the freaking yearbook''.

For whatever reason, people keep calling me "Erik" as opposed to Aaron. And don't even get me started on the misspellings...

For many years back in the early/mid 2000's this troper used the user "Outwar Dragon" which was a reference to an RPG he enjoyed. Most sits at the time required no spaces so "OutwarDragon" was the norm, but if it ever lost the second capitalization then forever I was known as "Outward." Never could tell if it was them seeing a second D, thought I was being clever and having them share one letter, or thought it was "Outward Ragon" This Troper's last name is pronounced "Hall-sall", not "Hassle" or "Hal-sall" (although that's how you spell it). Butchered spellings of said surname include Hassall, Halls All (the letter began with 'Dear Mr. All') and on a christmas card I got "Househall". My street name also qualifies for this, not only is it on an estate just off a lane with the same name, so people often end up outside someone else's door if they don't have directions, it's prone to being misspelled as either "Dummers", "Dumas" or in one case "Drummers".

This troper was cursed with so many annoying things with this trope. Number one, no one can pronounce my name the way it is written - Schuyler. In America, everyone spells it "Skyler" or "Skylar" or something like that, but his ''hilarious'' parents used the Dutch spelling despite the fact that there's not a drop of Dutch blood in me, nor have any of my family lived in the Netherlands, leading to having everyone read it off as "Shooler" (I was even asked once, "Is it Shooler or Shwyler?"). Then there's the fact that since Skyler even when spelled the Eagleland way is uncommon, everyone thinks that my name is Tyler. The corollary to this is nobody can spell it correctly either, and ''everybody'' comments on how weird of a name that is to spell, because I totally have NeverHeardThatOneBefore, let alone all the people asking me why I spell it that way, or why my name isn't Tyler. Then there's the next fun part of explaining to people that this is in fact my ''middle name'', which is what I've been called by all my life (My family never calls me by my first name).