the mispelling of a name...

I've never seen anyone spell Rachel with an "a" in front of the "el". That's strange. Yes it makes me irritated but it's so common with my name it's not funny. I've got an EXTREMELY rare name and no one seems to have a clue how to spell it and most don't know how to pronounce it. The last name they can get - don't really know how they could screw that up...then again they screwed up Rachel LOL. So a lot of time the telemarketers will just say Mrs. *******. Even people who have known me for some time still have loads of trouble spelling it correctly. And a few still pronounce it wrong - but it's close enough so...It makes my hubby angry though when they repeatedly mispronounce it. I had a best friend too in high school who would correct everyone who said it wrong LOL.

Well I have a very easy name but if I am speaking to someone on the phone they constantly call me a name other than my own even names that don't even sound close to my name and I correct them many times and they keep saying different names. I get annoyed, but I just have to shurgg it off and keep correcting them lol. I have a coworker that has an easy name also and there are people always changing her name and she got used to it but I get very upset about it. She laughs it off. LOL

hello raychill, i can understand what it feels when someone mispells your name.its quite irritating and it becomes disgusting when they do that even after informing them some dozen times.a person's name is not something just to identify that person.its something more to it and we are attached to it emotionally.i don't know about others but atleast i feel so.so if someone mispells it,its something like they are offending you.i don't know how people can be so inconsiderate. i have faced this several times in my school and college days.my last name is very very different and uncommon.its called MANSINGH.but everybody would spell it wrong even i rectify them several times.they can't pronounce it correctly.do you think so?is it that difficult pronouncing?there is no problem with my first name but many times it has been written wrongly ommiting an additional "a" in it. sometimes i feel i got a unique name but then sometimes it hurts me that why my parents gave me such a name that people feel difficulty calling me. so nothing to worry about this.it happens and people will continue doing this.its our reponsibility to rectify them each time so that they will feel embarrased at one point.

I have a simple name - Amy - yet people hear EEmie and they can still mispell it - Aimee, Amee, etc - even when they've seen it spelled correctly. When I go to my pediatrician and check in - time and time again they get my last name wrong - its close to another common name - but I tell them purposefully not (other spelling/pronounciation) but (correct spelling/ pronounciation) and I emphasize the pronounciation - it does sound totally different - but they're expecting the usual sound/spelling I guess. They always say - we can't find his record. How did you spell it - and its always how I said not to. I had a friend whose name was Gabrele - like GA and brell. But people heard what they expected to hear - Gabrielle. Very much like my husband's family name. She never got irritated she was used to it. She even had a hairdresser that she was friends with, who even set her up with her brother who pronounced it Gabrielle. When I would pronounce it correctly, she would look at me like she was irritated - the hairdresser - then she would say something to my friend, emphasizes the Gabrielle -as if I had it wrong!

Hi rachel, I think its a habit thingy. Some people will have been used to one particular name - for example - in your case it must have been Rachael, the woman must have heard and uttered the name Rachael far more frequently than Rachel, so she has just gotten used to the phonetics of Rachael. So, whenever she sees something like Rachael or Rachel or some pattern closely related to it, it reminds her of the phonetics of Rachael. So, even after you taught her, she found it hard to change. You see, its more like a deep-rooted habit, not so easy to change or get rid of. Just give her some time, she'll do fine with some practice, incase you have further interactions left with her, unfortunately:( Ofcourse, it happens with my name too, very often. Now i'm immune to the mispronounciation, so it does'nt have any effect on me. Earlier, when i was in school, every new teacher would pronounce my name wrong while marking the attendance. My classmates used to giggle at me and tease by that newly invented name, my face would turn red out of embarassment. But once it became a regular event taking place, i started to have a preconcieved notion about name being mispronounced, everytime when someone new was about to get introduced to my name. Now, after years of experience, it will be the first thing on my mind when somebody asks my name. I've developed a mind-set for it now, which enables myself to digest all those awful inventions/modifications by which people used to embarass me acutely. The best part of it is, often when i try to correct them with a smile, many of them feel really happy that i did'nt get mad at them for such a terrible mispronounciation and tacitly express their appreciation. Some of them even apologise and thank me for being kind enough to forgive their mistakes readily, with a smile and correcting them.

My name is Patty. My email address has my name in it. Yet people insist on writing "Patti" no matter how many times they see my name is spelled Patty. Everywhere I am on the net, my first name is included in my user name yet people still don't spell it right. I don't get it. And my last name, it's spelled wrong and SAID wrong. But I don't get really mad, just a little annoyed, like how can people continue to make the same mistakes over and over again? People I know well? My own DOCTOR sometimes calls me by my last name, which sounds but doesn't look like the name Terry. So my doctor of many years calls me by a name I don't respond to. *sigh* I would be mad, but it is so common now that I just laugh.

I don't worry about it too much. My name originally was something that is very easy to mispell, but my last name, as it is very common, was never spelled incorrectly. When my husband and I got married, I took his name, and it's impossible to spell. Not impossible, but fairly difficult. So I've given up. A lot of my clients don't even try to write my name on the cheques anymore - they just hand me a cheque with the amount filled out and no name.

It bugs me too. You know my last name....imagine having to spell that out everytime you correspond with someone over the phone. It bothers me when people can't pronounce my name either...I mean, it's honestly not a difficult last name to say. Every now and then I get asked how to spell my first name. Jessica. I mean, I know there are other spellings, but come on. Anyway, business wise especially, you should make sure to spell that person's name correctly. It's not hard to take two extra seconds and double check a name spelling. It doesn't make someone look very professional either if they can't even get your name right. It's like they didn't really take the time to read your email over.

My name is also mispelled all the time. Everytime I go to starbucks and the counter asks my name, my cup of coffee ends up with "Bill" or "Vyel" or even "Beyl" instead of Byel.. I don't know but I always pronounce my name clearly.. maybe it's their hearing problem..hehehe

Well maybe be she has some problem and maybe cannot see that she mispell your name.It happen to me all the time, becuase I am from Europe and live in Usa and nobody probably ever pronounc my name correctly, becuase just people cannot say it.So everybody started callign me Laura from that time.(becuase I like that name)If I am mad?No.Because I believe it is hard for them and they were trying hard and there are other things you should get mad about or are more important.

It happened to me many times. My name may not be unique but it is spelled in a different way. So I just don't mind if my name is being misspelled because in the first place it has been speelled differently.

yes, raychill, i do find it annoying when people can't get your name right and it does seem very rude for them not to take the care of pronouncing it correctly. i've had this happen to me a lot, especially when i meet some new people. but i have to admit i do have a harder name than your rachel lol. still tho, i don't understand why some people will still call you something else even after you've told them how to say/spell like 4 times. it just makes them seem less caring of getting to know you.

my name isn't hard to pronounce but sometimes people interchange som leeters when they pronounce it. i don't get mad. i quickly correct them in that case they'll not mispell again...

Normally my first name wont get misspelled as it is very simple but there are a number of occasion my last name got misspelled. Because it is very difficult to pronounce as well as very long. Earlier i used to get angry but now a days i just correct it as i know the difficulty to spell/write it

Some people are clueless, aren't they? Often through laziness and lack of consideration, other times due to an inability to pay attention to details. Some might spell your name wrong on purpose, as part of a personal vendetta. But that's less likely, I suspect. If only we could shake some people and slap them till they get it right, without fear of litigation. *sigh*

yes its so rude,and it makes you wonder why they didnt take the few seconds to check on the spelling at least the second time they made the same mistake.especially if its for something important.my name gets spelled wrong all the time but i am so use to it that it doesnt bother me.have a great weekend.

My name is often spelled wrong by people even when it is right if front of them. I can even spell it out to someone and they will spell it wrong. My name is spelled Kathrine, but I get mail all the time with it spelled Katherine. A lot of times my last name is spelled wrong too.