[Ipg-smz] Great misspellings of your name?

[Perlow, Jason]

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.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 1:33 PM Alan Zeichick <alan at zeichick.org> wrote:

> As you might imagine, I’ve seen lot of misspellings of Zeichick. (“I
> before E except after Z”)
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> It’s funny… now. -A
>
>
> On Feb 20, 2019, at 10:45 AM, Richard Santalesa <rsantalesa3 at optonline.net>
> wrote:
>
> That's classic.
> On Feb 20, 2019, at 12:40 PM, Kusnetzky Dan <dan at kusnetzky.net> wrote:
>>
>> Alan,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> My favorite misspelling was found in an Italian IT magazine.  They
>> spelled it “Cusanetski.” I suppose that was somewhat similar to an Italian
>> name.
>>
>>
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