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

[Stevey Boy]

Noones ever mispronounced my name but if they try to spell it with a 'ph' instead of a 'v' I get annoyed

 

[Polyg0n]

I just correct them or if I'm tired I might just let it be. I got used to it when living in abroad for a while. No-one was able to pronounce my name right on the first time there.

 

[Ildecia]

since its been happening for like 12 years now, i tried to just go with it, but when people make their just pathetic attempts at my name and don't stop until they think they've gotten it right, its just sad and annoying.

 

[Red Right Hand]

People fuck up the spelling but rarely the pronunciation. Foreign people generally get my name wrong because they spell it the way Ewan McGregor spells it, which is wrong....

 

[JoJo]

I don't think anyone could mispronouce my real first name, atleast in an English speaking country, considering it's almost always been in the top 10 UK names for the last 50 years if not more.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

It's actually pretty common to misspell my last name. Seeing as how the majority of the people who have the same use a S instead of a C. That said, I don't really mind. Though it can be annoying when I go to check something school related just to find my last name misspelled after constantly telling them how to spell it.

 

[Serenegoose]

It doesn't happen very often, but I've dealt with a few people who insisted (not actually, but would never remember when corrected) that my name is Sofia, and not just Sophie.

And... it's been so long since anybody called me that instead of 'Soph' that now my name looks really weird when wrote out in full. Thanks for making me notice, internet!

 

[Thyunda]

My first name gets misspelled with two n's all the time. Telemarketers have never pronounced my surname correctly. I understand that McKinlay is the much more common version, but if it says McGinley on the form, that's my name and I refuse to answer to McKinlay.

 

[Cazza]

Tell them how to pronounce/spell it. It happens all the time. I even let it slide sometimes if it close enough.

 

[Jodah]

If I know the person I let it go. If I don't I correct them once. If they keep getting it wrong I hate them. Thats for my last name. If its for my first name I get angry. My name is Josh. It is not Joshua. Do not call me Joshua. Bad things happen when you call me Joshua.

 

[Aux]

My last name is weird so it doesn't bother me that much. Although it did get annoying that one of my professors could never get it right the two years that I had her.

 

[SMILEYkyle21]

ignore them till they get it right. Kyle and Kylie are VERY different, considering im a guy

 

[Emilox The Great]

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.

 

[Danish_4116]

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'.

 

[Blemontea]

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.

Wow and i thought my name was bad at least people make an attempt. Who the F names their kid Brown?

 

[Dyme]

I am Lukas. There is nothing you can misspronounce. My family name also can not be pronounced wrong.

 

[ddon]

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.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

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...

 

[child of lileth]

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.