Its Keir Starmer, not Kier Starmer

I can only assume it's the i before e, that generally prevails, but not guilty! I've been aware for many a year it's Keir, but then we have a Canadian relative with that name.

Goodness knows, Wyllow3 - it’s something that does often make me wonder!

On a similar theme, I’ve previously seen threads about butter, where posters say they love Lurpack and won’t buy anything else. So if they’ve bought dozens of packs of it, how come they still can’t spell Lurpak?

Is this reallyworthy of a thread to itself?
It won’t be the first time there are spelling mistakes on GN and however annoying, it won’t be the last

Maybe because Kieran is spelt i before e and is more common, so it comes to mind easier? Of course Kier is a surname, so some might spell a forename that way too.
My given name is misspelled all the time, I've learned to live with it, no doubt Keir Starmer can too.
On another similar theme why do so many insist on using Kate for the Princess of Wales when her name is Catherine and she prefers to be called that? Are they not capable of spelling Catherine?

Yes it's worthy of a thread. Can't stand it when people talk about Weatherspoons.

RosiesMaw2

Is this reallyworthy of a thread to itself?
It won’t be the first time there are spelling mistakes on GN and however annoying, it won’t be the last

Well, some of us do sometimes like to have a little grumble about things that irk us.
If it’s SPAg related, I do usually confine mine to Pedants’ Corner though.

I like how Jacob Rees Mogg alludes to him as Reverend Starmer. He’s so pious and earnest isn’t he?

Should this not be poster on Pedants' Corner.

There are often typos that are understandable like that one but for goodness sake we've used Keir's name enough this summer for posters to know the correct spelling. It even appeared in a thread title today.

No, it's not pedantic to spell well known names properly. It's due respect for each other.
I put it in news and politics because it recurs and has been in the past used as mockery.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

I like how Jacob Rees Mogg alludes to him as Reverend Starmer. He’s so pious and earnest isn’t he?

And JRM quoting Padre Pio and spouting Latin because he, smugly and mistakenly, thinks nobody will understand what he’s talking about is to be admired for his “piety”??!!

I find it more annoying that the Princess Of Wales is often called ‘Katherine’.

It’s Catherine with a C, not Katherine with a K.

On one GN thread, some time ago, someone wrote about Kier(sic) Starman. Presumably he had been waiting in the sky.

I think he was probably named after Keir Hardie.

I hesitate to judge as I live in a glasshouse where spelling and other correctness are concerned.

Wyllow3

No, it's not pedantic to spell well known names properly. It's due respect for each other.
I put it in news and politics because it recurs and has been in the past used as mockery.

I do hope you've never referred to Catherine as Kate then Wyllow3.
How is a simple misspelling of Keir as Kier mockery, you've lost me? And interestingly my computer keeps red underlining Keir but not Kier.

He was named after Keir Hardie.

RosiesMaw2

Is this reallyworthy of a thread to itself?
It won’t be the first time there are spelling mistakes on GN and however annoying, it won’t be the last

Yes but you’re missing the point. It’s misnaming Starmer !!!

Mollygo

RosiesMaw2

Is this reallyworthy of a thread to itself?
It won’t be the first time there are spelling mistakes on GN and however annoying, it won’t be the last

Yes but you’re missing the point. It’s misnaming Starmer !!!

Yes, he who must not be not be called names - ever !

Obviously following the rules of spelling.

I'm assuming that, because of the suffix -ier on words, which is often pronunced as -eer, our automatic spelling of his name defaults to Kier on hearing it.
I think the sound comes from Middle French, so you get cavalier, grenadier etc. and more modern words like cashier.

I read an interesting article about KS in a German newspaper recently, and they too obviously have problems.
Starmers Vorname wird »Kier« ausgesprochen. Starmer's name is pronounced Kier.

pedantic as always. There are more important things to concern us than spelling

Why are posters so touchy about KS and his saintly crew? I read on here the other day we must call them Labour, but The Government!

The correct title should be 'the Reverend Keir Starmer' or Mr. Starmer, not Reverend Starmer, unless Rees-Mogg is being ironic. I can't believe he does not know.
But as Starmer loudly proclaims his atheism it is irrelevant.
(And his wife is not Lady Victoria, but Victoria, Lady Starmer, courtesy of her husband's title.

I thought I heard somewhere that Cate had to start spelling it Kate to differentiate her initial from the Queen's.

Mollygo

RosiesMaw2

Is this reallyworthy of a thread to itself?
It won’t be the first time there are spelling mistakes on GN and however annoying, it won’t be the last

Yes but you’re missing the point. It’s misnaming Starmer !!!

Many people will not really care.