[Ipg-smz] Great misspellings of your name?

[Carol Pinchefsky]

All,

My last name is Pinchefsky. I can’t begin to calculate the number of times someone has misspelled my name. Worse, people even misspell it after I break it down: Pin, like the needle; chef, like the cook; sky, like the thing above you. It’s hilarious/frustrating.

Jason: Awesome story.

Carol




> 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 <mailto: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 <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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