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

[Jack and Calumon]

My name... is Jack. If someone did Mis-spell or mispronounce that, I'm sure natural selection would work it's magic.

Calumon: Sometimes people call me Culumon. I wonder why?

 

[PayneTrayne]

I don't mind people mispronouncing my name, cause it means they're kind of stupid. I mean Jay Wilson, how do you fuck that up? But it's when people call me by the wrong name that I get annoyed. Frequent perpetrators are my boss, my mother, and my best friend. (They call me Jake, Justin [my brother's name] and Jory [other friend's name] respectively)

 

[Agent_Nahmen_Jayden]

Blake is easy enough, never had that spelled wrong.

My last name being an 11 letter Polish one is difficult. I myself couldn't spell it until I was 6-8 years old. Not that I really tried to before.

 

[biGBum333]

its usually my last name people do it with, no idea why though. I just tell them:

no its S-H-E-P-H-E-R-D. isnt that hard to spell sheesh!

 

[Dajmin]

My surname isn't common down in England, so it gets mispronounced all the time. I just let it slide because it doesn't make any difference as long as I know it's me they're referring to.

After all, there's plenty of names and surnames that I'd probably say wrong if I saw them written down too.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

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

I get the misspelling thing a lot, I do get a little angry sometimes, but I understand why people do it.

My last name is O'Brian, that is the way my family spells it. Of course common way is O'Brien. So it happens a lot.

Recently, I pre-ordered Pokemon White at GameStop. I didn't think anything of it when I told the guy my last name, but when I looked at the receipt later, I noticed he had spelled it the common way O'Brien. It's really my fault for not telling him, but I just forget about my strange family spelling that has been around for at least 5 or 6 generations, learned that at the big family reunion years back.

The other thing I get with my last name is people asking me if I my family owns the liquor store downtown. I get that a lot, in many places, because I guess that there are a lot of O'Brien's in Indiana, that own liquor stores.

 

[Mafoobula]

My name is Ian, and I'm always just a little surprised when someone reads it and pronounces it correctly on the first go.
Truth be told, I got used to it pretty quickly. In fact, when people ask me how it's pronounced, I'll either say that it doesn't matter, or something like, "It's pronounced aajurr-bajijshn."

 

[jultub]

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

I get it!

You would.

This is kinda funny, I have a silent and completely illogical h in my last name

My first name isn't really difficult. People from english speaking countries have a slight mispronunciation due to the fact that there's an anglicised version of the name. But it's still working at least

 

[Betancore]

I've never had anyone mispronounce my name, but it usually takes several tries for someone to spell it. What's annoying is, I know they won't be able to spell it first go, so I always spell it for them. But they ignore me, because they figure they can't possibly misspell 'Kathryn.'

Then they spell it 'Catherine.' I tell them my name is spelt with a 'K.' They then try 'Katherine.' I tell them it has an '-ryn.' They come up with 'Katheryn.' What the fuck. That's not even a name. Finally, I tell them to omit the 'e.' And then they get really confused because somehow 'Kathryn' cannot be spelt without an 'e.'

 

[lightwish]

set them straight

 

[Deadlock Radium]

Being Norwegian and having a Norwegian name, I get a lot of misspelled names on Skype from my English friends. I don't mind really, I try teaching them to say it correctly and they do surprisingly well actually.

 

[pigmypython]

Happens all the time with my name. Very german...but meh I'm use to it.

 

[Michael Logan]

Im going to be honest with you, I acctually misspelled my own name once, I dont even have a hard name to spell!

 

[Dr. Whiggs]

Mine's a solid English name.

But it is three letters off from my mom's name.

 

[Lieju]

I tell them how it's pronounced, if they matter. Other Finnish speakers wouldn't mispronounce my name, but English speakers have no idea.

I don't care if it's some clerk or something, but if it's a friend or someone I expect to say my name often, I try to tell them how to pronounce it.

 

[Something Amyss]

Half my friends call me Zach and it's not even my real name. I can live with misspellings and mispronunciations.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

My first name is Samuel, though I go by Sam, so no one screws that up, though I've had a few people mishear it as Tim on the phone. My last name, on the other hand, is evidently very hard for people to get right. Hancock, like the Declaration of Independence guy (Amerians are familiar with that reference), but just about everyone asks if there's a "d" in there.

 

[zungerman090]

My name is written like this: "Dung", but it is pronounced like this: "Zung". I gotta get a new name...

 

[Soviet Steve]

I correct them.

If it's fourth offense I get annoyed.

I give up trying at eight

 

[Withall]

Well, my name is pretty bloody universal, so it's almost impossible to mispronounce it. I dare you to (without going out of your way on purpose) mispronounce "Thomas".