<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>All,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>My last name is Pinchefsky. I can’t begin to calculate the number of times someone has misspelled my name. Worse, people even misspell it after I break it down: Pin, like the needle; chef, like the cook; sky, like the thing above you. It’s hilarious/frustrating.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Jason: Awesome story.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Carol</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Technically speaking both sides of my family's names are misspelled the second they came to Ellis Island. And one side doesn't even have the original name we started out with because to emigrate into the US they had to buy papers off of a family of a dead Russian soldier.</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 1:33 PM Alan Zeichick <<a href="mailto:alan@zeichick.org" class="">alan@zeichick.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">As you might imagine, I’ve seen lot of misspellings of Zeichick. (“I before E except after Z”)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, the worst, and most humiliating: For eight years I worked at Miller Freeman, and for the last two, was the E-in-C of LAN Magazine, which we renamed/repositioned as Network Magazine.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">After I was leaving the company, we agreed to give me the back-page column. In the VERY FIRST ISSUE under that arrangement, they misspelled my name in the column’s byline… which meant that not only was it spelled wrong by the production team, but nobody caught it during the proofing cycle.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s funny… now. -A</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 20, 2019, at 10:45 AM, Richard Santalesa <<a href="mailto:rsantalesa3@optonline.net" target="_blank" class="">rsantalesa3@optonline.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_1681520339515916985Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">That's classic. <br class=""></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 20, 2019, at 12:40 PM, Kusnetzky Dan <<a href="mailto:dan@kusnetzky.net" target="_blank" class="">dan@kusnetzky.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Alan,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Back in my IDC days, I was quoted multiple times in an Infoworld article. My name was spell differently each time. All of the spellings were incorrect.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My favorite misspelling was found in an Italian IT magazine. They spelled it “Cusanetski.” I suppose that was somewhat similar to an Italian name.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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