MyNaymeIs
#87829
To those of you who don't have this problem and think of anyone who complains about it to be whining over a small problem, try to imagine what it would be like if ''every'' time someone read/heard your name, they absolutely ''had'' to mention it, make fun of it, or give you a particular look. ''Every. Single. Time.'' It gets old ''very'' quickly.
#87830
And that's not even mentioning misspellings.
#87831
My name is Shayn, which is clearly a more phonetic version of "Shane". I have ''never'', not even once, had my name spelt or pronounced properly. I've been called Shaun, Shay, Shaw, Shannon and Sharyn(I am a guy). In high school, I was placed in an ''all-girls class'' because they thought it was Sharyn. It doesn't have a meaning, and it is the name of a small crater on the moon. My brother ended up with "Cayle, which is much, ''much'' better.
#87832
This troper has a classmate who spelt their name as Tayla. They may have been messing about, but it was used consistently.
#87833
This troper's
nayme (Toney) is never spelled correctly on the first attempt, due to that extra 'e' in there. Apparently, even the bank seems to think that 'e' is a figment of my imagination, since my debit card came without it. Even though I wrote it out no less than three times... and signed it...
#87834
This troper's name is Riley. It has been heard by others as Bradley, Rahleigh, Reeley, Really, and once misspelled on a letter as Rilert. I am extremely curious about that last one.
#87835
R and T are right next to Y on the keyboard. This troper's best guess is that the writer wasn't typing carefully (and may have had fat fingers) and ended up hitting both keys at the same time instead of the Y.
#87836
Mine is spelled Nic. Every single person I know uses a K at the end.
#87838
This Troper tends to have his name spelled as "Sacha" rather than "Sasha". Although there was one memorable occasion on which a very clueless classmate spelled it "Satia". (And just in case I didn't make it clear earlier this Troper is a guy)
#87839
This Other Troper, who also has a nayme, remembers hearing that Sasha is a guy's name in Russian.
#87840
This troper gets a little bugged if his primary nickname is written as anything other than "{{gs68}}." Sadly, limitations on wikis force it to be spelled as "[=Gs68=]."
#87841
Interesting inversion: "Megan" is the most common spelling, but I've had it spelled "Meghan", "Meagan", ''"Magen"''... It's to the point that I jump up and hug anyone who spells it right on the first try.
#87842
"Erick" seems to give people fits. Spellchecker hates my guts; on official math team name tags, I was Eric despite telling the official state secretary that it is Erick multiple times; no one can get it right even after I spell it for them. The list goes on, but the most impressive one comes from college applications. I filled out the common application, and submitted it. Almost all of the supplements, including the college that did this error, asked for my name again. So when I get an e-mail addressed to Eric asking for a little more material, I was amazed that they made that error. The best part? That college was ''Harvard''.
#87843
ThisTroper has a friend named Aerica. It's pronounced like Erica.
#87844
That's an awesome name.
#87846
About three in five people either misspell or mispronounce
this troper's surname on the first try. To be fair, it's a pretty unusual one, particularly if you don't know many fantasy authors.
#87847
What is it? My name is an old Finnish one, that everyone thinks is spanish.
#87848
This troper's husband's middle name is Mathew -- only one T. Even the newspaper "corrected" it when they printed the engagement announcement.
#87849
Catherine, Cathryn, Kathryn, Kathrin, and Catherin are ''all wrong''. And yet they've popped up on everything from newspaper articles to prescription labels.
#87850
This troper's name is Matthew yet my library card says "Mathew". Even a couple of school certificates says "Mathew" in my primary years (well, thank God teachers in high school/college know how to spell!).
#87851
My sister's name is Jacqueline. In elementary school, when they all had to give each other valentine cards, ''every single card was spelled differently''. I call her Jac for short, but then some people spell it
Jack.
#87852
Are you me? Of course, I spell my sister's nickname Jacq and she goes by Jacqui...but still.
#87853
Just be glad that it's not spelled Jacquelyn, like it is for
this troper.
#87854
Speaking of Jacquelyns,
this troper did not know how to spell his own mother's name until he was like 18. The mail always got it wrong, and one day this troper just so happened to catch on when she was spelling her name to somebody over the phone. It wasn't the first time she did this and this troper wasn't even paying attention, but for some reason, it dawned on him that she had been spelling her name with a Y this whole time.
#87855
This editor met a guy at work whose name badge said "Schuyler." When asked how on Earth that's pronounced, he replied "Skyler." Sadly, I myself am stuck with boring old "Brad." The most I could do is add a second D or spell my full name as "Bradli," but that looks so stupid I can't believe I just typed it.
#87856
This troper has weird parents who did not know that the "-esha" names would become popular while she grew up. They named her "Letitia", which comes from the original French name "Leticia". It is pronounced "Lu-tee-sha". This troper is now twenty and has no longer bothered trying to correct people when they read her name on paper because 90% of the time, they say "Le-tit-tia". Ask MyWayEntertainment. They know.
#87857
This editor had a friend in college who changed the spelling of her name from "Kate" to "Kayt" so it would "be more phonetic."
#87858
Similarly, this troper grew up with a girl named Katie who in high school suddenly decided her name was Kayti.
#87859
The propensity for faux-ethnic naming this editor has picked up on, complete with apostrophes, excessive use of "q"s, and whatnot.
#87860
This troper once had a girlfriend named Alyssan, pronounced just as Alison. Alyssan has since gone on to name her son Mykkil, which this troper still refuses to believe is a "Michael" variant.
#87861
This troper has seen all sorts of variants on "Michael", mostly in sports. (Mychal is a common one, and there's even been a [=JerMychal=].
#87862
This troper has two female cousins accidentally named Nicholas and James. And a male cousin whose legal middle name is Nicole. Needless to say, this troper's uncle Carl can't spell.
#87863
This troper has a cousin whose mother spelled her name Desire' on the birth certificate. Not Desiré or Desirée, but Desire'. Resulting in the unfortunate family nickname, "Desire-Mark."
#87864
This Troper has had so many people ask him if his last name is spelled 'like the Crocodile Hunter' that he now introduces himself as "Erwin ee-are-doubleyou-eye-in" whenever he gives his full name. This Troper has two gs in her surname. When people don't make references to livestock or vegetables, they tend to forget the second g. Now, when I'm asked for my surname, I spell it anyway.
#87865
My high school could never get my name, "Jaime," right. They always placed the "i" after the "m" instead of before it. My mom's last name was also often misspelled or misread due to consisting almost entirely of consonants.
#87866
Apparently there isn't a single person in the world outside this Troper's family who can spell and/or pronounce our last name properly! (It's Kolano, Khol-aun-oh!)
#87867
This troper once heard a story about someone who was substitute teaching in an inner-city school. She paused on one name, spelled "A-a." "Ah-uh?" Turns out it's pronounced "Adasha."
#87869
I've had weird experiences with this kind of thing. My name's Virginia; not spelt with a y or a j or anything, just an old-fashioned name. In primary school, there were teachers who assumed that this was a misprint because it's an uncommon name for children nowadays. They would insist on calling me Victoria or Veronica until I convinced them that that Virginia was, indeed, my real name.
#87870
This troper's last name is
Straughan, one of those
cuh-razy Scottish names, and it's pronounced "Strawn"... if someone hears it out loud, they naturally think it's spelled that way. If they read it from text, they tend to say something really, really awkward sounding "Straw-ghan? Stray-can? Strakkan?". Turns out it's derived from a Scottish locale named "Strachan", which is pronounced like "Strawn" as well. This troper's father always assumed it meant something
super-manly, but sadly, this troper (God I hate saying that, let's just say "I" on the Troper Tales page, alright? Oh wait, TvTropes is SeriousBusiness), did some research on the name... and it means "Valley of the Little Horse", which brought much sadness. Yes, I might as well be called Joseph MyLittlePony. It's possible-''possible''- that it could meant little as in "young".
#87871
Internet handles and usernames count, right? This troper goes by {{Kjorteo}}. Enough said.
#87872
A cousin of mine is named "Emmaleigh" (Emily)
#87873
This troper's name is Johnathan. Yes, with an H and an A. This concept would appear to be beyond the mental faculties of the public at large, as he has had it misspelled on too many occasions to count. Why is that so complicated? Granted, he is at least better off than his friend Czeslaw...
#87874
This Troper's mother is named Moria, and pronounced Mo-REE-uh. It's often mistaken for the much more common Maria, or else mispronounced as Mor-EYE-uh. The latter actually makes more sense than the former: it's a Hebrew name (of the mountain in TheBible where God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son Issac, but stopped him from doing so), which is more commonly transliterated to English as Moriah and pronounced the latter way. Maria is actually an unrelated name, the Latinized form of Miriam.
#87875
This troper would've thought with the LordOfTheRings movies you'd have less problems with Moria.
#87876
This Troper's first name is Vikram, but usually just goes by "Vik". Of course, everybody just writes down Vic, which doesn't bother him so much, and he doesn't even bother correcting them anymore. Other times, people trying to be formal/respectful call him Victor, which DOES get on his nerves just a little bit.
#87877
Is "Nathanson" really so hard to spell/pronounce? Because we get stuff addressed to "Nathansen", "Nathenson", and the always-popular "Matthis", along with telemarketers pronouncing our last name Matthis, Matheson, Natheson...or even getting all the letters right but still using a short a. It's ''NAY''-than-son!" And, of course, we get a few people thinking that they're talking to someone named Nathan. (I am ''so'' naming my first-born son Nathan, just so I can respond to one of these telemarketers by putting a toddler on the phone. I'll give him a really awesome middle name to compensate, of course, so when he's older he has the option of turning his first name into an initial like his great-grandfather, ''my'' namesake, did. (Grandpa went by "I. Charles Nathanson." The I was for Irving. I got named after the Charles part.)
#87878
This troper also had a friend in high school who insisted that his name was written "Zac"--"not 'Zac-k', and not '
Zach'", a lampshading of how weird the normal dimunitives of Zachary would sound if pronounced phonetically.
#87879
My name is Jeff'''er'''y, not Jeff'''re'''y... although I won't blame you if you get wrong because I wasn't totally sure 'till I 8.
#87880
This troper's name is Rebecca, but people always spell it as Rebeccah, Rebekkah, and so on. But it would be stupid to call myself Becky, because the initials would then be BJ.
#87881
Similar case for This Troper, except everyone spells her name as "Rebbecca". Ironically, that was an actual typo on her birth certificate before they went back and fixed it. Additionally, people often insist on calling her Becky, no matter that she loathes the diminutive with a passion.
#87882
Whereas this Troper's name is Rebekah but people always seem to spell it 'Rebecca' or, horror of all horrors, immediately call me 'Becky'.
#87883
My first name is Welsh and my last name is Scottish. If people see it written, I usually end up telling them to pretend the Y is an I and that the CK in the middle of my last name doesn't exist. I immediately sympathized with
Ushiromiya Battler just because he also has the people responsible for his name at the top of his "must-kill" list.
#87884
This Troper's name is Jacquelyn, or preferably, Jackie. She's had her named spelled Jaclyn, Jaqueline, Jacquelin, Jacqui, and, in a truly wall banger moment, Jaci. ''By a teacher she'd had for seven months.'' This isn't even counting the time she was given her state standardized grade testing packet and had her name spelled Jacquely. Because apparently, if your name is longer than eight letters, you're just screwed.
#87885
This troper's first name is Bryce.
NOT Brice. (I've even seen someone spell it "Brys", which is
marginally funnier in this troper's opinion.)
#87886
This troper suspects that Welsh names must be very prone to this. The name 'Rhiannon', for example, can turn into Rhianna, Reanna, Rianna, Rihanna, Rhianne, Rianne, Reanne, Rehanna, Rehannan, Leanne, Leanna, Brianne, Brianna, Liana, Diana, Katherine and -- this troper's personal favourite -- Brian. Combine this with a middle name with a 'y' in and a surname that can be mangled in another half a different ways, and hilarity tends to ensue.
#87887
This Troper's name is Rhiannon and gets that ALL THE TIME. Especially Reannon.
#87888
You have no idea how good it is to know I'm not the only Rhiannon who has gotten "Brian" before. The most annoying mispronunciations are when they read the name on paper and say "Rhianna" or "Brianna." No that little "on" at the end is not pronounced like an "a", DAMMIT!
#87889
This troper enjoys watching teachers and peers try to pronounce/spell her name, Reighann. She's gotten the spellings [=RayAnn=], Reiann, Rehann, Reganne. The most common pronunciation is 'Rai-GEE-ann.' -.-
#87890
Holy CRAP another person named Reighann( well, its my middle name but still) its even spelt the same.. IM NOT ALONE
#87891
This tropers has a friend named Elliott. That's two L's, and two T's. No one EVER gets it right.
#87892
This troper's last name is spelled M-I-C-H-E. NOT M-I-C-K-E-Y.
#87893
This troper's name is "Alexandrea." Not Alexandra, not Alexandria. Alexandrea. But that's nothing compared to some of Navafauxlish (Fake Navajo/English) names she's seen around her school. And once, she knew a Hindu boy who's name was Peru.
#87894
This troper's name is "Connor". It is routinely misspelt as "Conner" and "Conor" by everyone, including his teachers and friends (friends who have known me for years, mind).
#87895
This troper named Marisa has seen her named spelled Marissa, Marrisa, Merissa, Merrissa, Mirisa, and plenty of other ways. Even now into her 20s her aunts and cousins still get her name wrong on Christmas and birthday cards. Also her friend, named Aisling frequently gets it spelled or pronounced like Ashley.
#87896
I bet the {{Touhou}} fans get it right, but pronounce it
"Mah-Ree-Sa." Also, a self-demonstrating example,
the editor who wrote this snark.
#87897
This troper feels your pain, as her name is also 'Marisa', (and it is pronounced "Mah-Ree-Sa"). I'd like to add some more mutilations for the list, though: Mariesa, Marcia, Marisha, Maricia, Mari-sa. It's become a RunningGag in the family to see how my grandmother spells my name each year on the Christmas cards because it's always something different.
#87898
This troper has three examples
#87899
My mother's maiden name, which she goes by rather than my father's name since their divorce, is Westendorp. This has been spelled Westendarp, Wastendorp, and, I kid you not, Wentebdrop
#87900
My Father's name is Thom, spoken "Tom"
#87901
My step mother is named Andra, though she is often mistaken for "Andrea"
#87902
This Troper's first name is Myfanwy, which is a Welsh name that's been in use for around a thousand years. She's been given every conceivable misspelling at one time or another, starting with MyFanwy and finishing up with strange things with Vs and Us in them. The mispronunciations by people who've only seen it written out are worse. It's actually pronounced muh-VAN-wi, rhyming with 'can we'.
#87903
This Troper has several examples:
#87904
In Sweden, it's quite common to have two surnames, and the standard is to have a hyphen between them. I have two surnames, but no hyphen. Apparently, that's very hard to understand, since my surname is CONSTANTLY being spelled Landin-Dillner or Landindillner. Furthermore, those particular surnames are both quite unusual (as is my first name), resulting in "I'm sorry, can you say that again, please?" whenever and to whoever I introduce myself.
#87905
My friend's surname is ''Jungermann'', which people always spell ''Ljungerman''. Kind of justified though, since there is at least one Swedish surname that is pronounced ''yung'' but spelled ''ljung''. Also, double Ns at the end of words are quite unusual.
#87906
My grandmother's maiden name was ''Jansson'' (a very common Swedish surname), but her niece spells it ''Janzon''. Everyone always gets it wrong.
#87907
My brother's first name is Teddy, which everyone always thinks is a nickname. Whenever he introduces himself, people automatically assume that his real name is Theodore.
#87908
This troper has a friend called Vicky, which she told me is what's written on her birth certificate. Apparently, people assume that it's short for Victoria, which she hates being called by.
#87909
This troper goes by Nic. I have so many people spell it with a K that I accidently did so myself recently. Probably doesn't help that my signature looks like NK B~~y~~~~/ roughly.
#87910
This troper's friend's name is Stefan. Like the... Russian, I guess, I don't know. Pronounced STEH-fen. All of my non-mutual friends (who haven't actually met him, mind you) insist on calling him steh-FAHN. Other friends just call him Steven.
#87911
My real first name isn't exactly common, which is why people tend to misspell it and/or mispronounce it on the first try. Doesn't make the urge to swat them any less powerful.
#87912
My real name is usually spelled with just one S, but my dad thought "two looks nicer". My ''pediatrician'' felt this was a bad idea, and sure enough not one teacher has pronounced my name right the first try (if I have to have my name said aloud, IE for a Starbucks order, I omit the extra S). I can't ''imagine'' what my foreign-named relatives went through, let alone my cousin -- out of
all the Laurens I know, she's the only ''Lorin.''
#87913
This troper's last name is misspelled in the ''phone book'', and has been on almost every 'award' she's won at school as well. Not to mention, no one can ever seem to properly pronounce or spell (one or the other) my first name......
#87914
My name's been misspelled Lindsay, Lindsey, Lindsy, Linsay, Linsey, etc. It's Lynsey. No "I", no "D". Lynsey. Is it really that hard to spell?
#87915
This troper's friend's first name is spelt with a 'ie' on the end. She's had her name spelt as Emily, Emmerleigh, Emmalee, you name it, she's had it spelt like it. It was no wonder that she gets a bit touchy when it's misspelt.
#87916
This Troper's name is DARYL. Not DARRYL, not DARRELL or DARREL or DERROL, or worse, DARLY. Good Lord, if this troper had a dollar for every time someone misspelt his name as DARLY, he'd be a damned rich man by now.
#87917
This troper's legal first name is Lauren. Pretty easy, right? Wrong. It's been spelled "Loren" by family members as well as friends on more than one occasion, and my ''hospital records'' bear the name "Lauran". It could be spelled wrong on my birth certificate for all I know. Fed Ex once gave my name a ''whole extra syllable'' -- Laruren!!
#87918
I know a boy named Kam-ron. A name spelled as its phonetic form, for convenience?
#87919
My name's commonly spelled "Ian". My mother appended an "E" to the start, because she believed people would mispronounce the common spelling. I've been, occasionally, referred to as "Ethan", but not often. Oh, and recently, I met another "Eian" during a shift at my workplace. He was just as surprised as me.
#87920
This troper's name is Rebekah Leigh, her sister's name is Jacqueline and her second-youngest cousin's name is Caely (pronounced KAY-lee)
#87921
This troper's middle name is not Spanish/Italian, her mother did not forget the "h", and no, it's not like the singer. It is the old english Maria pronounced Mah-RYE-ah. Also, her first name has an "a" at the end. She hates it when people call her the name of a popular fabric store. I'm not even going to get into the completely off pronunciation some people like to give her relatively simple name!
#87922
This troper's name is Kaila. It's not pronounced like Kayla. It's pronounced KYE-lah. People always mispronounce it.
#87923
My cousin is called Kaila too, and my name is Kayla. my mum still mispronounces Kaila as Kayla though. It makes things very confusing.
#87925
This troper is Amy. A very common name, so you'd think that people would stop misspelling it. I've had 'Aimee' from a number of people, and 'Emi' (which I actually like better) from Japanese and Indonesian people. Also, my surname is Macintyre, not MacIntyre or, god forbid, McIntyre. EVERYBODY capitalises the I, even if they've been corrected multiple times. It may be because all formal documents are completed in block letters, so everyone assumes it's a capital I.
#87926
I don't know about Indonesian, but Emi is a Japanese name.
#87927
This troper's name is Janay. Not Janae, or Jany, or Janey, or Janai/Ja Nai (yes, really), or Jenay. J-A-N-A-Y. And it doesn't help that most people I know that share the same name has one of the above alternate spellings.
#87928
My name is Madelaine. I don't know how many people have spelled it "Madeline". It's one of my
Berserk Buttons.
#87929
I know your pain. I'm Madeleine yet people spell it your your example of Madelein. I don't get mad if they spell it wrong...
but pronoce it......
#87930
This troper has the simple name of "Adam", but someone spelled it as "Adme". Cue confused look as she hands me a christmas card. Although, this was the same girl who pronounced the spanish word "Comica" as "Comicora"
#87931
A friend of this troper's once knew a girl whose name was pronounced "Nadasha", a little different maybe but fair enough. Her name was actually spelled "Na--a", on her God damned birth certificate and all.
#87932
Generally all this troper has to put up with is having her name misspelled as Caitlin, Kaitlyn, or Caitlyn, when it's spelled actually Kaitlin. However, this troper one saw her name written as Katelynn. This troper still doesn't understand how that last one came to be.
#87933
I'm a Caitlin who goes by Caitie and I've really grown to hate the letter K over the years due to how many times people have attempted to put it (or a Y) into my name. Also: TWO I'S. I've gotten to the point where I have to point to my face, and the fact that I don't wear an eyepatch, to drive the point home.
#87934
My last name is "Groce" pronounced like gross but it lends to more confusion as people try to pronounce it as Gro-CEE, Gro-CHE, or Grace (which I will never understand how that's the most common mispronunciation.) The mistake is so common, I already have an unconscious routine for whenever people ask so they know pronunciation and spelling. "Groce. G-r-o-c-e"
#87935
Just say: Groce, as in "Grocer".
#87936
This troper once had a teacher whose first name was Katje. Pronounced "Katie". Supposedly, when she was born someone wrote down her name in script, made a stray pen mark, and her parents thought it was cute.
#87937
My name is WIL, not WILL! JESUS GFJIODFJIKGNDFL. I mean, seriously. I've hardly ever met someone who knows how to spell my name the first time without being told to drop the second L. Even after I wrote it myself, on the same piece of paper!
#87938
My brother, who is only young and not good at writing yet, plays Sims. His Sims are named something like dfpgg and posiehrtgs but their names are pronounced AliceAndBob
#87939
My name is Mark: M-A-R-Z-W-I-L-K, the number 24, and the letter X! -Marzwilk24x
#87940
As a StealthParody of other girls in our class having (or else suddenly affecting) these kinds of names, someone I knew in high school went from being Denise to Dqenise, the latter pronounced with a silent q. She got listed in the yearbook that way and everything.
#87941
This Troper who happens to be named Caitlin goes by Caitie, which of course is rife with its own problems. If I could count how many times it's been bastardized... (and it's the original version of the name, too!)
#87943
That sounds just a bit familiar... >> http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp
#87944
Mine's Madelene instead of Madeline, got it from my Grandma. Haven't met anyone who spells it my way, probably because it's supposed to be pronounced 'mad-leen' but she changed it since everyone pronounced it wrong.
#87945
This troper's name is Allison. No matter how many times she reminds them that it is spelled with two L's and an I, certain people will persistently get it wrong, or call her Alice or Alyssa. The fact that her surname is technically French but has been horribly mangled over the past 400 years doesn't help either.
#87946
This tropette knew a girl named Krystn.
#87947
My neighbor's dog's name is Phideaux.
#87948
As in "Fido"? That sounds pretty cool.
#87949
This troper - Sheila isn't a very common name as it is, but with two "e"s it's even worse. Add her last name being sort of unpronounceable, and you have problems. Funnily, her parents picked "Sheela" because they thought that Americans would be able to pronounce it... they just can't spell it.
#87950
This troper is working on an original story with
vague meaningful references to the RobinHood legend. However, one of the characters that I actually named after that aforementioned titular character had her name spelled as "Robynn" instead of "Robin", partly to differentiate the names in gender a bit. My friends didn't even notice this when we started roleplaying in chat, so when they started consistently spelling the name wrong I just casually pointed it out to them. They protested that names with y's that replace i's and additional n's were useless and silly and stupid and irritating. Cue wallbanger, and me feeling a bit down over it.
#87951
My name is Alada (pronounced Uh-Lay-duh) and spell check refuses to admit that my name exists, also every single teacher i have ever had has either pronounced it as Uh-lah-duh or, on rare occasions, Amanda. Really? Amanda? That's not even close. One time a teacher pronounced my name correctly during role call and i didn't answer because I wasn't familiar with the sound of someone saying my name correctly. shoot me. -__-
#87952
First and middle name? Simple. Spelled the same in most western languages. Last name? Obscure as hell Anglisized Welsh clan name - Staley. I've been called Stanley, Stale, Bailey, Stoly...
#87953
As anyone with the name Tyler can testify many people have called me Taylor Which is smart if you wanna make me annoyed quickly
#87954
This troper's name is Haley. NOT Hailey, Hayley, Haiyley, Haleigh or Haily, but that's what I get.
#87955
Invoked as a throwaway gag by a GM in a D&D game this troper was a part of. As part of a sidequest, a random NPC had asked us to find his lost dog, Phydeaux (which is pronounced the exact same as Fido).
#87956
This troper is Taylor. Apparently it's not a very masculine name, so everyone assumes that I'm ''mispronouncing my own name,'' and calls me "Tyler". On another note, my brother Cody is often called "Cory", and everyone spells my sister Meagan's name as "Megan" or see how it's spelled and call her "Mee-aygan".
#87957
Why is it too much to expect of people to know the difference between "Juli''a''" and "Jul''ie''"? There's an A at the end, dammit! What am I, a frikin' {{anime}} character?
#87959
My name's Kerrie. Not "Kerry" or even "Kerri", it's Kerr''ie''. One time I ordered some shoes on the internet. When filling in my details, I of course, spelt my name the correct way. Yet when I finally recieved the package it was still somehow addressed to "Kerry"!
Those twits thought I'd spelt my own name wrong!
#87960
Some people give their children really unique spellings of names, I have seen some pretty strange ones. I parodied this in a story I wrote about a school, with some names such as Stacee, MacKynzee, Kaidyn, then went with some very weird names, one kid ended up being called J'aeLynn.
#87961
Hi. I'm Courtenay. Not Courtney. Not Courtaney. Not Courtnay. Not... y'know, stuff it. Just call me CJ.
#87962
This Troper has a classmate named Kahla. It's pronounced "Kay - la". Some substitute teachers will try to pronounce her name like "Call - a".
#87963
This Troper's name is Skylyn. S K Y L Y N Not Skylynn Not Skylin. Skylyn is the most common variant. It means Cloud.
#87964
Invoked in
This troper's former webcomic, which featured a ValleyGirl ShallowLoveInterest named "Typhphaanii". (And before y'all get up in arms about me making fun of names, go over to the TroperTales page for "
Military Alphabet", where the first entry details my adventures in this same domain.)
#87965
This Troper works with a guy named Aksyl. That's right.