[Ipg-smz] Great misspellings of your name?

[Sharon Fisher]

You'd be surprised how people mess up my fairly simple name. People like to
put a C in my last name, and I get variations like Karen and Sherry for my
first name.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 3:40 PM Jacqueline Emigh <jacwriter20 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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