[Ipg-smz] Great misspellings of your name?

Thu Feb 21 14:17:38 UTC 2019

People spell Rikki in all kinds of random ways. But the worst is that I
regularly get variations of "Brittney" on my pizza boxes and Starbucks
cups, which means people don't understand my name when I say it.🙄

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 8:46 AM Sharon Fisher <slfisher at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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