Spelling The Easy Names

[draftermatt]

I go by Matt, it amazes me how many people spell it Mat (you do now wipe your feet on me damn it)

But no, I don't spell it.

[tollbaby]

laundryhater, you could just ask them to spell it, that's what I do. Had a call for my boss the other day, and couldn't for the life of me understand what the woman was saying her last name was. So I asked her if she could spell that for me. It was "Miller" *sigh*

[Sliceanddice]

My name is old-fashoined, but you'd think it'd be fairly easy to spell. It's Polly.

Not once have I had someone try to spell it the right way.

I'll give my name, and then launch straight into the spelling, and every single time I've done it, the other person has said (while backspacing, erasing, or rewriting), "Oh, Polly." Because everyone assumes that it's Paulie.


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lol andara my sister name is Holly (my parents where evil) and no one ever spells it right right away either.
but get this.
when ever she places an order for pick up and Says 'Holly. With an O." the name on the pick up will say... Paulie.....
why???? why???

[KnitShoni]

I go by Matt, it amazes me how many people spell it Mat (you do now wipe your feet on me damn it)

But no, I don't spell it.

I've had a lot of guys get pissed at me, because their name is Mathew, and I've only seen it spelled that way ONCE before I started the job I now have.

[Andara Bledin]

lol andara my sister name is Holly (my parents where evil) and no one ever spells it right right away either.
but get this.
when ever she places an order for pick up and Says 'Holly. With an O." the name on the pick up will say... Paulie.....
why???? why???

I had a teacher that would call me Molly a lot in class. But he apologized and explained why it kept happening. The year before, he had a pair of twins in his class named Holly and Molly, plus my last name began with an M.

Another teacher called me Pretty Polly... boy did that get me a lot of razzings.

Then there was the teacher who liked to call me Wally Doodles. What as asshat.

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[hawkchick11]

My name is Holly.. freshman year of college, my roommate's name was Molly.

For some reason when I'm at work, people hear Holly and start calling me Molly or Polly.. but the one that takes the cake was when I answered the phone with standard work greeting of "Welcome to _______, my name is Holly, how can I help you?"

Caller's response, "Hi Katie, I need to do an exchange".. I'm still trying to figure out where that one came from.

And Rine, I know your pain.. my last name isn't common and people always throw an extra N in the beginning of it... the N isnt until the end

[KellyHabersham]

My real last name is "Crook", but people are always hearing it as Book, Cook, Rook, Brook.....etc., and pronouncing it as Crock or Croak. So anytime I have to give my last name to someone (like when picking up prescriptions at the pharmacy), I have to spell my last name out.

[AKATHEPOOF]

this is actually one of my major pet peeves. Tons of parents are trying to make their children's names unique. so they either make up a a name, or take a normal name and add a gh and a y to it. Which is fine. Its that they never tell you that its not 'Ashley', its 'Ayshleigh'. How in the hell would i know that??????? And 9 times out of ten they get all mad that you ask them to spell their child's name. Im going to assume that its spelled the way 99% of the English speaking world spells it.

My name is pretty common for my age group. And there is really only one way to spell it. And i still get a random moron every once in a while that adds extra letters.
Even after i spell it to them.

[repsac]

I worked with a guy years ago whose last name was "Daughtry" It took me forever to pronounce or spell that right. I, like most people, fell victim to spelling it "Daughtery"

[CaroPhoenix]

My married last name is spelled with a "ph" and not a "v" (which is the more common spelling).

My first name is 3 letters long. It's simple really. But I always say "It's Amy with a "y"".

Why do you ask? Because I've seen people butcher my name. (Ami is a legitimate version of my name. Ami is the French version, Amy is the English version).

Here are the versions of my first name that I have seen:

1. Aimiee
2. Aimi
3. Aimey
4. Amey
5. Amee
6. Aimiey

[Sliceanddice]

1. Aimiee

i always loved the name Aimee but its one of those names you give a girl in a book whose going to jump off a bridge, or shot herself in the head, or swallow a bottle of pills.

[Kogarashi]

Another teacher called me Pretty Polly... boy did that get me a lot of razzings.

Then there was the teacher who liked to call me Wally Doodles. What as asshat.

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My eighth-grade English teacher gave me the nickname Holy Moley (based off of my last name). I honestly didn't mind too much, because by that point I'd learned the fine art of being socially invisible, and was no longer being picked on. Plus, that teacher gave nicknames to everyone in the class, even the social girl (Robot), the jock (FBI), and the goofball (Porkchop).

[edible_hat]

Then there was the teacher who liked to call me Wally Doodles. What as asshat.

I had a Scout leader who would put "-els" on the end of names (which is only really appropriate when talking to his son... "Hey Johnels!"). He stopped that when we started doing it to him. He became "Camels".

[Evil Queen]

I got in the habit of saying "Holy-as-in-Bible-oak-as-in-tree" when telling people my surname, so they'd spell it right.

I got into the habit of saying "You'll break your 'Schin' when you go 'ske'-ing" (Schinske) and people wonder why I'm not happy getting credit card offers that read "Shinsklee"

Why couldn't I be a "Smith" or an "Anderson" like everyone else?

[Primer]

The only nickname a teacher ever gave me was in college. The Spanish professor called me "Tiquis Miquis." I never did learn exactly what it meant, but I'm sure it was something along the lines of "Smartass." I was in there only because I needed the classroom credit, as the "test-out" credit was good for only 5 years, and it took me 11 to get my BS.