Its Keir Starmer, not Kier Starmer

Nightsky the issue of spelling names on here is nothing compared with an EYFS teacher faced with parents who insist that their their spelling of any name is the only correct one and woe betide you if you make an error.
Actually, it is a bit like being admonished on GN.

Freya5

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.

I certainly don’t and for what it’s worth I don’t like the name, Keir, Kier whatever. Give me a David, Robert, William any day.

Daddima

Obviously following the rules of spelling.

Thanks, Daddima!

Online, I tend to use initials for everyone, sometimes after using the whole name the first time, in case of confusion. I'd use KS, RS (for Sunak), BJ etc, or a contraction like MissA for MisAdventure. Otherwise I am more likely to use the last name, regardless of sex, so Starmer, Thatcher, Badenoch (or Shakespeare, Blyton, Christie) but I have seen that called rude when applied to women.

I don't think the misspelling of Keir is deliberate, but I think the 'joke' names are childish and usually plagiarised, so not even witty. Each to their own though.

Mollygo

This is an excellent thread which demonstrates the need to protect the LP, even from spelling errors.
Originally I referred to KS as Starmer because I couldn’t remember if it was i before e or not, but once I’d been reprimanded for that here on GN, I stopped worrying about whether it was Kier or Keir and just used Starmer or KS. It makes life easier.

😂

Keir is an odd name to spell and tbh who cares if GN members get it wrong.
I tend to put KS anyway so don’t need to remember the name.

Can't answer for others but I try with people from different POV as regards getting the name right.
Eg in the Conservative Leadership have trouble recalling Badenoch versus Badenhoch and Jenrick versus Jenwick etc.

This is an excellent thread which demonstrates the need to protect the LP, even from spelling errors.
Originally I referred to KS as Starmer because I couldn’t remember if it was i before e or not, but once I’d been reprimanded for that here on GN, I stopped worrying about whether it was Kier or Keir and just used Starmer or KS. It makes life easier.

Digressing from the OP, but I’m pleased that Camilla has the ‘Queen’ title.

If they had persisted in the ‘Princess Consort’, how silly that would have been.

Always knew Charles would get it sorted. 👍🏻

Wyllow3

nanna8

Queer Stammer?

Clearly homophobia and jibes against those who stutter alive and kicking.

Of course, I’m a Furriner, don’t have a Brutish passport what do you think? Just uneducated.

doubt
that

Repeat 100 times.

loopyloo

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

I do8bt that thst is true, after all we had Queen Elizabeth an Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth.

My friend had a surname beginning with C, and quite unusual.

She showed me a letter one day, addressed to 'Mrs Coalhole'

nanna8

Queer Stammer?

Clearly homophobia and jibes against those who stutter alive and kicking.

I wholeheartedly agree with you paddyann.

Allsorts

KS is enough, he is the pm and labour leader.

Sir K?

Although that could mean Sir Kay, one of King Arthur's knights.

Not guilty, Witzend!

Some packs are still 250g eg Waitrose own brand but I wanted Lurpak for a change and most of thd branded ones are now 200g.
However, I can't spell the

KS is enough, he is the pm and labour leader.

Witzend

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?

Oh dear, am I guilty?

I can spell Keir
i before e except after K.

Mamie

Indigo8

loopyloo

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

Which Queen? Queen Caroline? I thought that our late Queen was called Elizabeth (Alexandra Mary)or Liz at a push. Am I missing something?

Queen Camilla?

I suspect this was a kind of ‘not my queen’ post, or one saying that Camilla was to be Princess Consort, which was the case until the late Queen Elizabeth II said it was her wish that Camilla be Queen Consort.

Queer Stammer?

Indigo8

loopyloo

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

Which Queen? Queen Caroline? I thought that our late Queen was called Elizabeth (Alexandra Mary)or Liz at a push. Am I missing something?

Queen Camilla?

or Neal

kittylester

DH and I have been married 54 tears, my Sil persists in sending cards to Kieth.

😆
Like Neil, Neil or Niel!

DH and I have been married 54 tears, my Sil persists in sending cards to Kieth.