Spell my name right!

One of my daughters has an easy enough name to spell but the ending of her name is a little different. She is now a grown woman and still people pronounce her name with the other spelling at the end. I cannot understand why they do this, even several of my older aunts would call her by the other spelling of the name.

Oh well I gave her the name and still call her by it and I am about one in a million that does.

Three Ann/Anne’s in our family .... me ...my daughter ...my sis-in-law .... I’m Ann...my daughter is Ann( better known as Annie.... and my sis-in-law is Anne. ...oh and my best friend is Anne!! Confusing on my contacts list ...many times I’ve sent wrong text to wrong person! Now know to be VERY careful before I press ‘send’

Until I got married I had a surname which, when told to anyone, would quite legitimately be taken as a quite common surname. However, where one would expect there to be an 'a' it had an 'i'. Have googled it quite a lot, but haven't ever found anyone else with the same surname apart from people in my family.
So when asked for my surname I just got used to saying it and then automatically spelling it with an emphasis on the 'i'. Even then some people would misspell it, but it didn't bother me. There are far more important misunderstandings to worry about.
Ironically my married ( now divorced!) name begins with Mac so I still have to spell it out as there's a 50;50 chance that people will spell it as Mc.
If that was all I had to worry about I would thank my lucky stars!

My name can be spelled three ways - I, y, or my way, j. So people say "it's the same thing" when they spell it badly, and I say it's not, because had it been, I would not be mentioning it. Also, it is some kind of measure of intimacy, people think, to use only first syllables of names. I point out that this must be okayed by the person, the first time it is done... otherwise, the full name is to be used. And then, of course there are those who make up what they think are pet names by adding suffixes to names... - ette, ella, ina, ona…

I don’t actually mind how individuals spell my name but do find it really annoying that companies often spell it incorrectly. These usually say something to imply that they are grateful for my contact with them, appreciate my interest in them or advise me to rest assured they are focused on me!

Mmmn.

My late husband was Indian and of course virtually nobody could spell our surname. At work once I made a note of all the correspondence that came in addressed to me. In one month there were 53 variations.

No, I don't think you are being unreasonable.

To me it is very rude to spell someone's name wrongly.

It is tantamount to saying: "you mean so little to me that I cannot be bothered to remember your name properly."

As a retired teacher, I've come across so many name variations and it's often impossible to get it right. One year, I had 5 Kierons in my class, all spelled differently and I never managed to match the correct spelling to the correct child.

The one person who always got my name wrong was my MIL . This always made me cross because I'm Anne and so was her daughter.
She got that bit right, of course , but Anne is actually my middle name .
I'm Elizabeth Anne on my birth certificate.
MIL would send me letter addressed to A.E. all my life . No matter how often I told her !
She didn't like me and i think this was deliberate . One way she knew she could make me a bit cross ?

Yep I'm Tracey not tracy or tracie always have to spell it

My friend's daughter is named Louise and since she first met her mother in law she has always written it as Lousie. No one has the courage to tell her

My name can be spelled 5 different ways, until you get to France and add the way they spell it. Then there’s the nicknames.

I have to admit that one of my neighbours who has lived in the street for many years is named Ann or Anne and every time I write out a Christmas card to her I can never remember if her name is with or without an E! Always have to wait for her to give us one first to check it. Bad, I know, and I MUST make a note next time. Yet I know how annoying it is when people get, or spell, your name wrong. My name is Alma and many times, specially when I was young and such names were more common, people would call me Thelma instead. But all my life I have had my name wrongly spelt Elma, Elmer, Olma, Almar and on one occasion Alamo, believe it or not.

I am not bothered how people spell my name - Anne, although I often know when I get a cold call from a foreign call centre as some pronounce the "e" so I get called Annie!

I have always had to spell my surname, Truswell without a "t" and nor with two "s" and Parfitt with an "f for Freddy" and double t" . Some of the names I get called or see on letters are Parsnip, Parsipp, Parsitt, Parrot! I just find it funny.

I had a very complicated maiden name, people didn’t know how to spell or pronounce it. I was pleased that my OH had a simple surname, but no, there are 3 ways of spelling it.

Then there is my given name, very simple English name, but is commonly spelt the American masculine way, why? So I now always spell out both my names.

I have that problem with my surname - my maiden name can be spelt with or without an "e" so I always either spelt it or just said the name and added "without an e"
Now with my married name, for some reason many people add an "s" so I'm back to having to say "singular, not plural"
But guess who decided to name their son Sean ? The permutations of spelling that seem to be endless and to her dying day, a friend of my mother's insisted on calling him "Seen" !!!

I also wonder if there is a bit of a North/South divide as regards the "E".
I was born in the North East . All us Anne's had our "E " but so did Lynne and Carole .
I moved south and the prevailing E seemed to vanish
Ann, Lynn ( or Lyn ) and Carol appeared.
Maybe that's just my own perception. Anyone else noticed that ?

You are clearly same generation as me. I'm always saying we are all called Susan , Jane or Anne.
I'm Anne and very proud of my E .
I usually say , if asked my name for a form , " I'm Anne with an E""

A friend of mine had a letter addressed to her as "Ann Withanee Lewis". You couldn't make this up!!

My Sisters name is lynne,lynn or Lyn she’s used all three over the years .

It's my surname, - quite an ordinary one in my opinion, -
but it's amazing the amount of variations in spelling that people come up with.

I am a Linda and been asked if that is shortened from Melinda or Belinda? No it is just Linda

My name is quite easy... Mac

The number of times I get called.. Mark, Matt, Matthew (they think if I'm Matt, I should be matthew!) And occasionally Mac!

My ex was called linzi, and that name has several versions.

According UK passport rules, you can spell your name your way! Let's say Alan, there's Allyn, Alun, Alann, and of course Al. So if you prefer one to the other, you can do this on your passport. The reason is it's still the same name.

Christine, or Kristine?

So I think knowing you have a 50/50 name, you should calm down, you're still being called Ann/e or addressed as such.

I'm fed up with people who when told my name say "is that Caroline (rhymes with line) or Carolyn (rhymes with tin)". FFS Its the one I said it was!!

My name is slightly unusual, but as far as I know there is only one way to spell it. I’ve been married 28 years and MIL
has never yet spelled it right! She adds an unnecessary H in the middle and it drives me crazy. I also find the same with work emails. My name is at the bottom of all emails, but one client always spells it wrong and others give me a different name altogether. Think Charlotte, but calling me Charles or Charlene instead. I’d love to correct them, but as it’s work related I worry about sounding rude. Although they are the rude ones in my opinion.