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

[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.

 

[Duffeknol]

My name is Tijn. Yes, Tijn. I visit Canada quite often. Imagine how that goes. Ugh.

 

[Foxbat Flyer]

My name is Mathew (yes one t not two) so many people mis-spell my name (even my brother...)

 

[L-J-F]

S A M

Hard to mispell or pronounce XD

 

[Nazz3]

I punch him so he remembers it the next time.

 

[Samwise137]

I have a french last name which, for some reason, causes telemarketers to botch it almost inevitably. Before the inception of the do-not-call list, my brother and I would take turns messing with telemarketers who mispronounced our name. I would simply hang up violently but he would do such things as shout "ARE YOU DUMB??" at the person in question.

 

[tristow]

It happens to me so much I?m used to it, now i just tell them how my name is spelled and that there not the first or last person to misspell my name.

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

My name's impossible to mispronounce.

 

[moretimethansense]

With hatred and derision after all my first name's Adam not exactly difficult to spell or pronounce and my last name is a simple five letter english word which likewise is not exactly easy to fuck up.

 

[Nexoram]

Bao. That is my surname, people have spelled it bow, ba-oh, and even boa but it's not really bad. I just shrug it off. Oh yeah, and i have a Sri Lankan friend at school whose name is this; (get ready for it) Shane Eddipuliarachi. :0

 

[shadyh8er]

I used to rage about it when I was a kid. Now I'm more tolerant. Still pisses me off when people still mispronounce my name when I SAY IT FOR THEM! I mean seriously, how hard is it to repeat after me? They pronounce Schwarzenegger's name just fine!