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purplecrayon
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Incorrect Name Spellings
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My son's name is Collin. Great-grandma keeps spelling it "Cullen". She pronounces it that way, too.
She's been told by numerous people the correct way to spell & say it but she doesn't seem to care. I'm hoping she'll get the picture when she gets her holiday card from us with his name right there in front of her face in black & white (well, red & white...haha).
Do people spell your LO's name wrong?
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Re: Incorrect Name Spellings
One of my SILs spells DD's name wrong - with only one "n".
Her name is also mispronounced a lot, too. It's pronounced "Ah-nicka", but many people call her "ah-NEE-ka" or "Ann-icka".
No but people misspell my name all the time. My mom is one of those "replace the y or i with ee" people. It doesn't annoy me when random people spell it wrong but family and friends who know better still spell it wrong.
Gotta love the Gma's, huh? I could understand if she didn't know if it was one "L" or two, but Cullen?
Some people try to elongate my kid's names...my daughter is Kate, my son is Jake and neither are short for anything. It drives me crazy when people call her Katherine or Katelyn or my son Jacob.
I think this is bound to happen when you spell DCs name different than the norm.
People spell my name with a y all the time, even people in my family. It makes me laugh we people spell my name wrong when they send me an email, I mean my name is in my email address. How can you get it right in one place and wrong in another?
My name is Crystal. My grandmother still to this day spells it Chrystal about 30% of the time. I stopped caring a long time ago.
My cousin and her husband have been married 6 years. Her husband's name is Justin. My grandfather still calls him Justice!!!
Growing up I swore I'd never do a unique spelling with any of my children's names because I'm forever spelling my name for people and dealing with people getting it wrong. Ate those words! We have Lia.
I can deal with the misspellings. What annoys me is when people act as if we're stupid for having Lia as short for Amelia. Yes, we know it is not traditional. However, Amelia was a family name and we didn't want her to be one of the several we hear popping up everywhere. So we went with Lia. Get over it. It's no different than poor old Vernon going by Butch or Leonard by Buddy! Actually, it is...Lia is at least within Amelia! LOL!
We also get a lot of ConnEr spellings. I didn't even realize there was another way to spell it when we picked it.
My Dad wanted to name me 'Melissa' sometimes on gifts he wrapped for me he'd label them "To: Melissa"
I'm glad people can't eff up DD's name. Mine is a common name but has too many vowels and I have to constantly spell it for work (come to think of it, I probably would have preferred 'Melissa')
My grandmother gets both of my girls' names wrong. It's not a battle I choose to fight with her -- her memory isn't that great anyway.
She addresses things to my toddler as "Sophia" (it's just Sophie) and to my baby as "Elsie" (it's Elsa).
If I could just get her to switch the wrong syllables around (put the A on Elsa and the E on Sophie), she'd actually have them correct!
But like I said, I just ignore it.
DD1, 1/5/2008 ~~~ DD2, 3/17/2010
THIS EXACTLY! Sometimes, people call him William, which I guess is fine, it is his full name, but not what we call him. I will not let anyone call him Willy. Never.
We've gotten Kalli, Kallie, Calli, etc. We've even gotten a Kaylie. Her name is Callie.
My name gets spelled wrong all the time. The only time it irks me is when people say "First name?" And I say "Erika, E-R-I-K-A" and somehow, it still comes out Erica, or Ericka. Hmmm
we picked our daughters name for that very reason however the her SSN card and Birth certif. came in with her name spelt wrong. never knew Samantha could be spelt wrong but boy was i wrong.
my name however everyone spells it wrong and pronounces it wrong. its Tawnia pronounced Tonya and the spellings are too awful to repeat lol
LOL me either!!!! Willy is wrong on so many levels. My grandparents call him William which I can't be bothered by but they pronounce it funny -- like Wheeliam. Highly annoying but then I have to consider the source.
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Yes, all the time. I guess it's sort of my fault for spelling it Lukas so I don't really get annoyed by it.
Now, my inlaws calling him Luca or my other son Tile (like the floor) instead of Tyler, that bugs the crap out of me!
I thought that was the way to spell Collin. How else is it spelled?
Yes! Our daughter's name is Madeleine, which is the traditional French spelling, so it's pronounced "Mad-uh-lin". We didn't want to do the "Madelyn" spelling because I didn't like how it looked, and I figured people would figure out that the "ei" in her name sounds like "eh", not "i".
Yet people still call her Madeline - um, if we wanted it pronounced that way (i.e., Mad-uh-line) we would've spelled it that way. Oh, and my MIL insists on calling her Maddy, even though we told her that we will NOT be calling her that.
Ugh, I wish I would've stuck with my first choice for her, rather than succumbing to DH.
I thought with 1 L. I had only ever seen it spelled that way.
hehe That's exactly why I DID spell my daughter's name "Madelyn"... I didn't want her to be called "Mad-uh-line" or "Mad-uh-lane"... Isn't it funny the psychology that goes into naming a child? :P
Your daughter is adorable!!!
No one spells DS's name wrong (Tucker) but we get a lot of "What's his name? That's unique."
Just recently, a few people have spelled his name Mayson- I realize that some people throw in the unnecessary Y, but we don't spell it that way. It's so funny how wrong a name looks just by throwing in 1 little letter. My name is Sarah so I often have to say "Sarah with an H" when someone is taking down my name for something.
I have one aunt who keeps spelling his name "Servern" or "Servin," but she can pronounce Severin perfectly, hehe.
The thing we always get is, "Huh? SEVEN??!" even though, when introducing him, we clearly pronounce the three syllables Sev-er-in.
Oh well. He has a weird name. It's to be expected.
My son's name, Gavin, is pretty mistake-proof. It's easily identified when heard and so far no one has asked me to spell it for them.
My daughter's name, Alaina, is often misheard as Elena first so I have to over-annunciate "No, it's ahhhhh-LAY-nah" and over the phone, folks will ask to have it spelled.
That happens to us all the time. I guess that's what we get for naming her Scarlette Lorie. I see Scarlet, Scarlett, and Lori. We wanted to embrace my French heritage. It doesn't bug me much, except when close family member mess it up, you'd think they'd have figured it out by now. What really bothers me more is when people call her SCAR or LATTE... come. on. really?
My DD's name is Kaelyn. People call her Katelyn all the time, even some family memebers. We get all kinds of mis spellings as well. DS's name is mis-pronounced all the time his name is Joaquin. It is not an uncommon name. He gets called Joequeen all the time.