[Ipg-smz] Great misspellings of your name?

Thu Feb 21 15:04:13 UTC 2019

Amazing how many ways people misspell Blankenhorn. Blakenhorn is very
popular. So is Blankenhor. The most popular used to be Blankenship, which
is an English name. And don't get me started on Dana. Stan, Dave, Daniel,
and that's when they get the sex right. But it's useful to get sexually
harassed every once in a while on the Twitter machine. You other guys
should try it. Teaches you something.

Fortunately we gave our daughter what has become a boy's name. Robin.

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 9:41 AM <gabe at gabegold.com> wrote:

> I say 'Gabe', they hear (and often write on Starbucks cups, messages
> taken, etc.) 'Dave'. If they WRITE 'Gabe' on the cups, it't often
> PRONOUNCED 'Gabby' or worse.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] Great misspellings of your name?
> From: Rikki Endsley <rendsley at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, February 21, 2019 9:17 am
> To: ipg-smz at netpress.org
>
> 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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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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