[Ipg-smz] Great misspellings of your name?

[Lynn Greiner]

My name is regularly misspelled as Grenier (French, common in Canada) rather than Greiner (German, not so common). I’m sure I messed it up when I first met my husband.

 

From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of Alan Zeichick
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 1:32 PM
To: ipg-smz at netpress.org
Subject: [Ipg-smz] Great misspellings of your name?

 

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 <mailto:rsantalesa3 at optonline.net> > wrote:

 

That's classic. 

On Feb 20, 2019, at 12:40 PM, Kusnetzky Dan <dan at kusnetzky.net <mailto: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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