Does your surname get misspelt?

[Mark Sreeves]

Does your surname get misspelt?

By surname I mean last name/family name etc

anyway, mine does

My surname is of course SREEVES
but a lot of people insist that it should be

Shreeves
Screeves
Shcreeves
Greeves


these are the most common ones, I've had worse....
My son received a parcel today and the name was Sceeles !!!!!!!


When people ask my name (eg in a bank last week) I get the reply
"That's an unusual name"
I bet if I was chinese and my name was wing ching ping wong tong they wouldn't say that!



I actually know of TWO MORE Mark Sreeves so it's not that unusual.

Does anyone else have a simular problem?

no

[Nathan]

All the time,

My surname is Isaak
but I get it
Isaac
Issac
Issak
Issaac
Issaak
Isak
Isac
I've even gotten it Isic

Frustrating, now if I'm doing somethine where they are trying to write my last name I always spell it instead of just telling them what it is!

Oh yeah and there was one time when I got a letter addressed to Mr. Eyesack!

[Mark Sreeves]

yeah, and if I spell it out over the phone it frequently get spelt with an F instead on an S

[YoungBuck]

Every Single One of my names gets misspelled

My Name = Jon Boyer Mooty

Common Misspellings
Jon

John
Jonh
Jan
Joan
JonBoy

Boyer
Boyd
Boy
Boir

Mooty
Moody, Moody, Moody
Moty
Motty
Moot

And a bunch other spellings that weren't worth remembering.

ALL THE F**KING TIME!!!

My surname being Thwaites

My mother always gets Mr Thwaites for her post instead of Mrs M. R. Thwaites! hehe

[barrk]

My surname is Barr, how hard is that??? I still get

Baer
Bar
Barre
Burr

It's only four letters.....

[Iain17]

Yep, me too, mine is miss-spelt and miss-pronounced all the time.

My surname is McCairns.
Trying to get anyone who is not from Scotland to pronounce that is hell.

Most commonly it is McCains. No, I am not an oven chip damn you, its not hard, Mc, then Cairns, its not hard.

The number of times I have had to spell it out for people is unbelievable, and even then, they have often still got it wrong.

[Jamagei]

yes, both names, i get jonathon frequently, which i hate, on the birth certificate, it mostdefinatly says JOHN Grrr, but i also get jon and jhon (who would spell it that way!?!)

but the best is my surname (it is a ***** to spell i know) it is Marlborough

i get
molebra
marlboro (do i look like a *** (don't answer that!!))
malbro
malboro
marlbro
harlsboro
harlsborough

and when i say my surname i always get asked "is it spelt like the cigarettes, that pisses me off. it is pronounced differently, i usually pronounce it the proper way if the person loks like a tw*t. when i say it is spelt the same way as the town and they say "oh the posh way. BASTARDS

[Babette]

I used to work with a man who's last name was Scruton.

[HarryW]

Haha... ahh this is a funny thread

Wilkinson. Not much to go wrong with it really, and it's not that uncommon so no big probs.

Neener neener neener

[parksie]

I've been Micheal Parkes before

Originally posted by parksie
I've been Micheal Parkes before

So what where you before that

[smh]

Try having the name Shanea - (pronounced 'Shane - uh').

I get the following:

Shanna
Shawna
Sheena
Shania

and plenty more.

My middle name is Mae, which people always spell as May.

My last name is Hintz.
I usually get the following:

Heintz (like the ketchup)
Hints
Hint

[smh]

I will be getting a German last name in 7 weeks, which is impossible to spell.

[parksie]

Which is?

I take it that's Mike's surname

[SteveCRM]

My last name is Mack...sometimes it's spelled Mac...but that's not too bad

[Pix]

Both of my names get mispelt all the time!

My name is misspelt ALL THE TIME!!!!!!

It is spelt: Wrenn

It is misspelt:

Wren
Wen
Wenn
Ren
Renn
Warren
Win
Wrin
Wrennd
Wrenns
Rend
Ward
Wran
Wrann
Ran
Rann

[chrisjk]

I think an interesting slant on this topic is what your surname originally meant.

Mine, Kilhams, is literally Kill hams (i.e. pigs). Which means somewhere down the line we were pig farmers.

Anyone got any worse ones??

[Wynd]

No, but it gets mispronounced all the damn time! (Drauden)

[sail3005]

my surname is Funk, just use your imagination as to the kind of stuff i get...

Yeah, I hate that too. People spell my name like this the most:

Mathew Gates

And then I've had my name spelled like this:

Matthews

And few other ways that I hate.

Why can't people spell it right?

Matthew Gates

It is the traditional way of spelling Matthew.
It's not that hard. I'll even allow you to call me Matt. (Two t's as well there).

I am not a rug (Mat), so don't even go there .

copy and paste if you have trouble, I always do.
That's how I get Mark Sreeves (his name was not copied since I memorized it ) name spelled right.

But for everyone's name, I always copy and paste so I get it right. You are given a name, you use it all your life, you should at least get some respect with your name and people should spell it correctly.

[G.Kumaraguru]

Try Pronouncing My Name...

You Will justify why I have another nickname in the forums!

[Iain17]

Well my surname McCairns means Mc = son of, and Cairns is a pile of rocks.

I guess that makes me the son of a pile of rocks, weird.

[dimava]

try spelling this one right:

Ayrapetov

(pronounced I-ra-Pet-of)

(my last name)

my last name is Shankar..

i myself use two spellings.. bcoz
both are in use here..

Sankar and Shankar

Some spell it as
Sanker
Sankher
And once even this
Anoop Sank Her!!