How do you react when someone mispells or mispronounces your name?
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well it is kinda hard to mispronounce Emil. its my middle name that might be hard to mispronounce.
i wouldnt get pissed if someone got my name wrong, its a human mistake.
i wouldnt get pissed if someone got my name wrong, its a human mistake.
My last name is Lai, pronounced like 'Lie'. Every single person, without fail has pronounced it 'Lay'. I've given up correcting them and just accepted everyone pronouncing my last name as 'Lay'.
Yes. I don't know what is more annoying, people spelling my name "Stephen" instead of "Stefan" or people pronouncing it "Stefaun". Just sound it out, "ste" then "fan", it is not that difficult. These days I am surprised when someone who I met recently gets my name right the second time I see them.
Stoltzfus
Try to say it and you will probably get it wrong. I don't know the number of times that people have pronounced it wrong. Understandably, unless you know German, it isn't pronounced the way it's spelled. I have a hunch that the spelling was changed to be easier to right here in America. I think the last "s" should be the double-s letter that the German language has (sorry don't know how to type it on my keyboard).
But it isn't pronounced Stoltz-fuss, its pronounced Stoltz-foos as in Fusball (damn this keyboard!).
I've come to just accept that people misprounce it. I only ever correct them when its important. It doesn't help that there was another Stoltzfus in my school who pronounced it the other way...
Try to say it and you will probably get it wrong. I don't know the number of times that people have pronounced it wrong. Understandably, unless you know German, it isn't pronounced the way it's spelled. I have a hunch that the spelling was changed to be easier to right here in America. I think the last "s" should be the double-s letter that the German language has (sorry don't know how to type it on my keyboard).
But it isn't pronounced Stoltz-fuss, its pronounced Stoltz-foos as in Fusball (damn this keyboard!).
I've come to just accept that people misprounce it. I only ever correct them when its important. It doesn't help that there was another Stoltzfus in my school who pronounced it the other way...
People always misspell mine. It's Lileth with an e, but everyone spells it the usual way with an i. I don't really get mad or anything though, because my last name is way worse for pronunciation and spelling, and no one ever gets those right.
No one's spelt "Chris" wrong since I was in primary school, and I was too busy jamming stuff up my nose to get angry at them for spelling it wrong.
Kinda bugs me when people call me "Christopher", but that is technically my name so I don't say anything about it. It's usually only teachers and old people, anyway.
Kinda bugs me when people call me "Christopher", but that is technically my name so I don't say anything about it. It's usually only teachers and old people, anyway.
Everyone knows Lewis and Clark, my last name is Clarke.
People never put the e on the end unless I tell them.
People never put the e on the end unless I tell them.
If it's a stranger, say someone taking my order that has to call me back up, I just make sure it phonetically sounds like my name, which is Darron. So I'll accept dare-on, dare-in, some people say dar-on, something to that extent. It's also a semi-unusual spelling so I'm quite forgiving. I do get irked when I'm misheard as Dillon or Derek or Damon but I try to be cool and gently correct them.
My own family disagrees on it's pronunciation, so it doesn't bother me at all.
I correct people when they misspell it though.
I correct people when they misspell it though.
When I have to tell people how to spell 'Erin' I do get a little annoyed.
Especially when something like 'Eirin' comes along.
Especially when something like 'Eirin' comes along.
i get it all the time. my first name is Graham and over the course of my life its been spelled in really awkward ways such as Greyham
also my surname is Lindsay so ive had Lindsey alot but what frustrates me is linzi (ive almost hit someone for giving me an Xmas card)
not to mention the amount of people who think my surname is Leslie that pisses me off to, then when i correct them they say "oh yeah i remember it was a girls name". they better prepare for a faceful of fist
also my surname is Lindsay so ive had Lindsey alot but what frustrates me is linzi (ive almost hit someone for giving me an Xmas card)
not to mention the amount of people who think my surname is Leslie that pisses me off to, then when i correct them they say "oh yeah i remember it was a girls name". they better prepare for a faceful of fist
I pretend it didn't happen (unless they ask if they did it right). It happens all the time with my family name.
My last name descends from French, but it often is mispronounced as a Spanish term. The correct way to say it is "Voy-ulz," but I've heard it said "Voy-lez."
Either way, if somebody mispronounces my name, it's an honest mistake on their part, which I correct for them in a friendly manner.
However, if you manage to mispronounce my first name, "Zach" there is something wrong with you.
Either way, if somebody mispronounces my name, it's an honest mistake on their part, which I correct for them in a friendly manner.
However, if you manage to mispronounce my first name, "Zach" there is something wrong with you.