How do you react when someone mispells or mispronounces your name?

[chromewarriorXIII]

Nobody ever seems to mispronounce my name, but I occasionally have to correct people spelling part of my last name wrong. I have a hyphenated last name with the last part being "Jones" (which never gets messed up) but people sometimes leave a letter out of the first part. I never think it's that big of a deal though. I just politely correct them and move on with my day.

 

[Argtee]

The only time people have misspelled my name is when they replace the "a" and put a "u" in Lucas. It doesn't really bother me.

No one has ever mispronounced my name which is a good thing because it's not that difficult to pronounce.

 

[LitleWaffle]

Its not that they mispronounce my name, but they call me by my brother's name.

[small]Always...[/small]

That and nobody can spell my actual name correctly.

Its Isaac...

Issac, Isac, Isc, Isuc, Iass,

And my personal favorite...

ILK

 

[Thisbedutch]

Hard to mispronounce my first name, but I burst into hysterical laughter when someone pronounced my surname as "Mulland". Seriously, "Mulholland" isn't exactly hard.

 

[Bat Vader]

I don't have a problem if someone mispronounces or misspells my name. If someone is misspelling it I will let them now they are misspelling it and correct them. Usually I am asked how my name is spelled. It is not a complex name but it can be spelled two different ways.

 

[7moreDead_v1legacy]

I snap on the inside but i manage to stay calm on the outside because its happened my entire life it seems no one can understand (BR-e-MEN) they always say something like Brandon or Broman and if they spell it they get really crazy, Breemman is the craziest I've seen but people usually just miss spell it Breman but i think its somewhat my fault and how i say it.

Simular to my name that (Brennan) most of the time people think its Brown =/ But yeah I've had the Brandon, Browman, Breeman (my cheese super power ater ego), Breadnan...and so on.

 

[ENKC]

You'd be surprised how many creative ways people find to screw up "Ian". One company addressed letters to "Ivan" for years.

 

[qeinar]

i'm norwegian so my names would be really difficult for anyone not norwegian to pronounce.. : p so i don't really care when it gets pronounced wrong, not even if it's done by a norwegian.. : p

 

[JEBWrench]

I'm used to it. My last name is spelled unconventionally, thus it doesn't bother me when it gets spelled wrong.

 

[Kurokami]

I think it's really annoying. I don't think i have ever snapped at someone for it.

Considering there are few who can pronounce it in this country and that I could care less, meh... I'm fine, problem is I've started hearing my name when its not said.

 

[LightspeedJack]

I don't react. If they can't read that's their problem.

 

[Kurokami]

Its not that they mispronounce my name, but they call me by my brother's name.

[small]Always...[/small]

That and nobody can spell my actual name correctly.

Its Isaac...

Issac, Isac, Isc, Isuc, Iass,

And my personal favorite...

ILK

Must be pronounced differently... Or maybe I'm just used to the name.

Also, yeah I've had a guy come in to my shop once, call me by my brothers name (note that this is someone I've known for probably 5 years+ now), I corrected him, then when he came back 5 minutes later made the same mistake. -_-

 

[Joshroom]

Ha. My last name is a double-barreled monster so I'm usually just impressed if they get it right. Kind of hard to misprounce my first name though. If someone did that then yea, I'd be pretty unimpressed.

 

[icame]

My last name is always mispelled...always...

It's understandable though due to the typical way they spell it is the way it sounds.

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

I'd be pretty fucking impressed, actually. They'd have to try, seeing as how you can say my first and last name in two common syllables.

 

[PureChaos]

i just correct them, it's not important enough to get worked up about.

 

[Aerodyamic]

My name is spelled 'Marc', but I've given up on correcting those that spell it 'Mark', since my paycheques seem to be cashable. I have, however, gotten usually used to spelling my last name using the military phonetic alphabet, because apparently I make a hash of it when I say it to people.

 

[Crispee]

I have a funny game to play with this, when I was in School and a new teacher pronounced my name 'Christine' (my name is Kristian) during the register, I would completely ignore them as though they were referring to somebody else.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

I usually ignore it, unless it's for official stuff, in which case I'll correct them.