[Ipg-smz] Great misspellings of your name?

[Mac McCarthy]

Reminds me of the "paper sons" of Chinese immigrants here in San Francisco.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:38 AM Perlow, Jason <jperlow at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dan Kusnetzky
>>> Kusnetzky Group LLC
>>>
>>> Mobile: 941 928-5257 Office: (941) 404-1264
>>> Email: dan at kusnetzky.net <dan at kusnetzky.net> Website:
>>> http://www.kusnetzky.net
>>> Columns:
>>> https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/list/dans-take.aspx
>>> http://www.networkworld.com/author/Dan-Kusnetzky/
>>> Author of: Virtualization: A manager’s guide (
>>> http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920020417)
>>> Amazon eBooks http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Kusnetzky/e/B0060LSTCO
>>>
>>>
>>>
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