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

[Radelaide]

My name is Adelaide - Which is a capital city in my country, so if someone in Australia gets it wrong, I get pretty annoyed.

What annoys me more is when people call me Natalie or April. I had a school (geography) teacher call me April for MONTHS. I finally snapped, got up, screamed at her that my name was Adelaide and that she should remember it since it was a part of her job, whilst pointing at the city.

...I got sent outside :3 and in trouble off the head teacher.

 

[Gray Monk]

If someone gets my name wrong I nuke them... it fixes everything.

 

[projectazure]

It is annoying, but reasonable.
My name is hard to pronounce (my full name) So its no big deal, but if its the same person over and over again it gets annoying.

 

[Mr.Pandah]

Typical.

What I don't understand is why people think its such a reach to call me Billy or Bill from my real name, William? Those are my nicknames...I don't get why people don't believe me sometimes when I say they can call me Bill.

 

[SimuLord]

Add an H to my last name and I will fucking end you.

 

[Mordwyl]

I never knew the name Dexter could be butchered so mercilessly.

 

[Dags90]

Add an H to my last name and I will fucking end you.

I get it!

 

[crudus]

I don't really care. My name isn't that important to me. Someone was calling me Ralph for 2 years before he asked what my name was.

 

[SpAc3man]

Consider them to be borderline retarded. My name is that easy

 

[SimuLord]

Add an H to my last name and I will fucking end you.

I get it!

You would.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

I'm used to it by now. My name is Ross, so naturally, when people hear my name, they say one of three things:

a).....Russ?.......Oh, ROSS! Right, gotcha.
b) Do you dress for less? HUR HUR! (Or some variation of that)
c) All of the above

It's grating, but I've grown used to it.

 

[Dags90]

You would.

My last name has the word "apple" in it, one of the reasons it's easy to pronounce. There was a lot less nastiness than most people would expect.

I've been mistakenly called "Alec" on occasion now that it comes to mind, and it annoyed me a bit.

 

[SimuLord]

You would.

My last name has the word "apple" in it, one of the reasons it's easy to pronounce.

I've been mistakenly called "Alec" on occasion now that it comes to mind, and it annoyed me a bit.

Could be worse. Your last name could be Sander. Whether you'd be great would be up to history to decide.

 

[DesiPrinceX09]

I've got an Arabic name and it is mispronounced often, I didn't have them much of a problem untill I came to America but from that point forward I always had problems. Americans can't pronounce "foreign" words to save their lives.

 

[The Geek Lord]

My first name is three letters long. Nobody has ever, ever mispronounced it.

I have, however, had people fail miserably, and I mean miserably at spelling my last name. Technically, even we don't even pronounce our own last name correctly.

Heh. German surnames.

 

[Mimssy]

I've got a Greek last name and people butcher it constantly. It's not even that long of a name... No one really messes up Heather (my first name).

 

[Doom-Slayer]

Everyone seems to mispronounce my gfs name Ana...everyone says it like Anna, and often misspells it like that...annoys her so much she normally uses her middle name.

 

[WOPR]

I always loudly correct them if they say it wrong and if they spell it wrong I get up and correct it right in front of the m(and everyone else watching in the room)

 

[Erja_Perttu]

Well, I'm called Cally, which wouldn't be a problem except that I live in England, and no one seems to know how to spell that name here.

So far I've been Carly, Kayley, Candy, Corey, Carry, Cassie... and my favourite misspelling of all - Karli.

I've given up telling people.

 

[Siuki]

I lol. Brian, misplace a letter, makes Brain. So that's fine with me. It was somewhat annoying when one of my teachers did that though.