[Ipg-smz] Great misspellings of your name?

[Barbara Krasnoff]

Our family's name story: My grandparents' U.S. name was Novick (not quite
what it was in Europe, but never mind). When my uncle, who at the time
spoke only Yiddish, started elementary school, his name was put in the
books as Novack. And that, for the rest of his life, was his last name --
and is the last name of his kids and grandkids.
--
Barbara Krasnoff
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http://www.brooklynwriter.com



On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 3:37 PM Dan Rosenbaum <dan at panix.com> wrote:

> Then there are all the Jews who came through Ellis Island who left with
> the last name “Ferguson.” Why? Because Yiddish for “I forget” is something
> like “Ich fergessen.”
>
> This is probably apocryphal, but I prefer to believe it.
>
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> Dan Rosenbaum
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> > On Feb 20, 2019, at 2:07 PM, Sally Wiener Grotta <
> sally at sallywienergrotta.com> wrote:
> >
> > My grandfather spelled our name Wiener, when he came to the country. His
> brother, my Uncle Ike, spelled it Weiner. But their real name was
> Viprinsky. Wiener/Weiner was the name given to the first of them (I'm not
> sure which arrived before the other) by the immigration officer processing
> him. I suppose Viprinsky was too difficult to spell.
> >
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> > On 2019/02/20 12:37, Perlow, Jason 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.
> >>>
> >>>
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