[Ipg-smz] Great misspellings of your name?

[Jacqueline Emigh]

Although my first name is much more common than my last name, my first name
is misspelled more often. Sometimes, the "c" gets left out of Jacqueline.
Pronunciation is a totally different story, though.

I was brought up to pronounce my surname like the woman's name "Amy." Among
people who don't know me, however, it's hardly ever pronounced like that.

My last name, of course, came from my paternal grandfather (and his father,
etc.) Of my eight great-grandparents, seven had names of English or Irish
origins which were easy to pronounce. I got curious about the pronunciation
and origins of Emigh as a kid, but nobody in my family could provide an
explanation.

So when the Internet came along, we embarked on a whole lot of genealogical
research, ultimately finding that our Emigh progenitor had come to America
in 1776 from a part of Germany just east of Alsace-Lorraine in France.
Eventually, some of us went over to the ancestral home town. There, the
name is spelled Emich. Yet when I would write out either "Emich" or
"Emigh," people there would pronounce the name pretty much like "Amy."

My ancestor had several cousins who settled in either upstate New York or
various parts of Pennsylvania during the 1700s. I've since been in touch
with a bunch of descendants, who invariably spell the name Emigh and
pronounce it as "Amy." I don't know how Emich got turned into Emigh,
because there was no Ellis Island back then. It could have been because of
all of the Northern Irish, Welsh, and English in their midst. (There is
also an Emeigh variant, BTW.)

Anyhow, I'm accustomed to having my last name pronounced in any of a
variety of ways!



On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 3:32 PM Carol Pinchefsky <will_edit_for_food at mac.com>
wrote:

> 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> 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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>>> 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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