<div dir="ltr">Amazing how many ways people misspell Blankenhorn. Blakenhorn is very popular. So is Blankenhor. The most popular used to be Blankenship, which is an English name. And don't get me started on Dana. Stan, Dave, Daniel, and that's when they get the sex right. But it's useful to get sexually harassed every once in a while on the Twitter machine. You other guys should try it. Teaches you something. <div><br></div><div>Fortunately we gave our daughter what has become a boy's name. Robin. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 9:41 AM <<a href="mailto:gabe@gabegold.com">gabe@gabegold.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000;font-size:10pt"><div>I say 'Gabe', they hear (and often write on Starbucks cups, messages taken, etc.) 'Dave'. If they WRITE 'Gabe' on the cups, it't often PRONOUNCED 'Gabby' or worse.<br><br></div>
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Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] Great misspellings of your name?<br>
From: Rikki Endsley <<a href="mailto:rendsley@gmail.com" target="_blank">rendsley@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Thu, February 21, 2019 9:17 am<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">People spell Rikki in all kinds of random ways. But the worst is that I regularly get variations of "Brittney" on my pizza boxes and Starbucks cups, which means people don't understand my name when I say it.🙄</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_7454815686913477778gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 8:46 AM Sharon Fisher <<a href="mailto:slfisher@gmail.com" target="_blank">slfisher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">You'd be surprised how people mess up my fairly simple name. People like to put a C in my last name, and I get variations like Karen and Sherry for my first name.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 3:40 PM Jacqueline Emigh <<a href="mailto:jacwriter20@gmail.com" target="_blank">jacwriter20@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" id="m_7454815686913477778gmail-m_6301227129613981836gmail_block_quote0"><div dir="ltr">Although my first name is much more common than my last name, my first name is misspelled more often. Sometimes, the "c" gets left out of Jacqueline. Pronunciation is a totally different story, though. <div><br></div><div>I was brought up to pronounce my surname like the woman's name "Amy." Among people who don't know me, however, it's hardly ever pronounced like that. <div><br></div><div>My last name, of course, came from my paternal grandfather (and his father, etc.) Of my eight great-grandparents, seven had names of English or Irish origins which were easy to pronounce. I got curious about the pronunciation and origins of Emigh as a kid, but nobody in my family could provide an explanation. </div><div><br></div><div>So when the Internet came along, we embarked on a whole lot of genealogical research, ultimately finding that our Emigh progenitor had come to America in 1776 from a part of Germany just east of Alsace-Lorraine in France. Eventually, some of us went over to the ancestral home town. There, the name is spelled Emich. Yet when I would write out either "Emich" or "Emigh," people there would pronounce the name pretty much like "Amy." </div><div><br></div><div>My ancestor had several cousins who settled in either upstate New York or various parts of Pennsylvania during the 1700s. I've since been in touch with a bunch of descendants, who invariably spell the name Emigh and pronounce it as "Amy." I don't know how Emich got turned into Emigh, because there was no Ellis Island back then. It could have been because of all of the Northern Irish, Welsh, and English in their midst. (There is also an Emeigh variant, BTW.) </div><div><br></div><div>Anyhow, I'm accustomed to having my last name pronounced in any of a variety of ways!</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 3:32 PM Carol Pinchefsky <<a href="mailto:will_edit_for_food@mac.com" target="_blank">will_edit_for_food@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div>All,</div><div><br></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></div><div>Jason: Awesome story.</div><div><br></div><div>Carol</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left:blue 2px solid;margin-left:8px;padding-left:8px"><div><div dir="ltr">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><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" target="_blank">alan@zeichick.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>As you might imagine, I’ve seen lot of misspellings of Zeichick. (“I before E except after Z”)<div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>It’s funny… now. -A</div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left:blue 2px solid;margin-left:8px;padding-left:8px"><div>On Feb 20, 2019, at 10:45 AM, Richard Santalesa <<a href="mailto:rsantalesa3@optonline.net" target="_blank">rsantalesa3@optonline.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_7454815686913477778gmail-m_6301227129613981836m_-321660281678342863gmail-m_-8690678683340064198gmail-m_1681520339515916985Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div><div dir="auto">That's classic. <br></div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 20, 2019, at 12:40 PM, Kusnetzky Dan <<a href="mailto:dan@kusnetzky.net" target="_blank">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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div><br><div> <div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px"><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px"><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px"><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px"><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px"><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px"><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px"><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px"><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px"><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px"><div 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