[Ipg-smz] Great misspellings of your name?

[David Needle]

Verbally and in writing a lot of people upon hearing my last name assume -
for some reason - that it's Needles and say it that way. Perhaps the impact
of Needles, California is bigger than thought. "Needleman" also comes up
occasionally, not helped by a way too long SNL skit many years ago called
"My name is Needleman" with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:50 AM Lynn Greiner <lists at itwriter.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> *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?
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> As you might imagine, I’ve seen lot of misspellings of Zeichick. (“I
> before E except after Z”)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> It’s funny… now. -A
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> On Feb 20, 2019, at 10:45 AM, Richard Santalesa <rsantalesa3 at optonline.net>
> wrote:
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> That's classic.
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> On Feb 20, 2019, at 12:40 PM, Kusnetzky Dan <dan at kusnetzky.net> wrote:
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> Alan,
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> 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.
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> 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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