How do you feel when somebody misspelled your name officially?

Hello thewonderboy, On the first instance I thought that it is ok, since it is my son's certificate, it may not create any problem (mother's name), but on a second thought I pointed out the wrong spelling to them. Good I have corrected the mistake, in the other school, they are not accepting if there is any mistakes in TC (if the name is not matching in certificate and TC)

I am OK.

I think you are OK now

You are right.

Hello Jan, When people write the name wrongly in official papers then it creates lots of problems and frustrations. I think the officials should take extra care while furnishing the details in documents. Once the mistake happens then rectifying the same is really tests our patience.

Hi Sreekala, I agree with you. Very much. Not only that it will test our patience, it will also cost us in correcting our names on legal documents. It will take a lot of waiting time.

Hello Kat, It will annoy all of us for sure.

My dear mtr, In our place, that 'h' is absolutely correct dear. I mean people are adding 'h' with this name. I hope there is no other problem with your name and it spelled the same way in all documents. In our case it is rectified and I have heard that others also faced similar problem with their names (parent’s).

My dear mtr Now I understood.

Hi my dear Sree! It's okay to put an "h" to names in our country but the thing is,in my birth certificate,there's no "h" attached to my name so there goes the problem. What is written in the birth certificate should be used in all of my details.

Hello svg, I agree with you, that is one of the reason I didn't get angry on seeing the mistake on the first hand. However, they have records in front of them when they prepared the TC where my name is written correctly. How they can apply their own likes to spell other's name. How are your kids, hope they are on their vacation now and eagerly waiting to join to the new class in next week. Best of luck and love to them.

Schools are reopened for everyone. The torching heat also started. Care them well.

Yes they are enjoying vacations and from 2nd April they will start going to new school.They both are excited to go to new school..hehehe

Hello ashraf, Yes, the officials do mistakes but we have to run behind them to correct it. Waste of time and energy.

Hello Veejay, I am fine. Hope you are doing good. My name in their record is Sreekala Anilkumar, and they wrote in TC as Shree Kala Anilkumar. They know me well that I am the mother of the child (if they use Shree instead of Mr.), still I can't understand the logic by splitting my name according to their wish. We can't blame anybody if they are not familiar with all names. But they can use the common sense at least.

Hello Rajib, I am fine and hope you too. Now I really started to think, what is the problem of these staff, lack of knowledge or careless attitude. They should realize they are playing with career of others. It may create problems at some point in their life.

@ Chhotu, you are a person I have met who have forcefully made himself endearing. I really appreciate this simplicity and humility in you. Chalo you are my younger brother from today onward for I too do not have a younger brother to chide. love to you.

@Rajibda: You are the only one on this planet who calls me by the name - "Chhotu". I never had an elder brother and always thought and wished I had one. When you refer me by this name, I see the love and the care of an elder brother in you. And I cannot even think of saying no to what this brings in for me

Dear Chhotu, and I spell you as "chhotu" right? And virtually you have no complain of your name being misspelled. Right Kala?

And I almost forgot.. my clients call me sid, the people here know me as thesids, the others here call me "Sir" (as I have worked for more than 18 years as a teacher, and my website has a different name and also... you call me sidhu So how is that for a trial?

Hi Bro.. So I call you bro.. So you having different names their.. It is like that. Not only in your case, here we are also having many such mistakes. Now only thing is left that we are laughing on it.

Why should children object to their father's name for which he himself is not responsible? You should correct your daughter Thangappan[in Tamil it can be THangappan and not THankappan isn't it?]; I feel it is not fair that a daughter should say this to her father however loving the child is.

Thanks, So you have lot issues along with your name in home as well as in your office. I have heard this name since my childhood so I don’t feel anything bad with your name (one of my childhood friend’s father name is exactly the same. There was another neighbour too with the same name. We used to call him Thankan chettan. I think your daughter will realize the beauty of your name once. She will love your name other than any hero’s name in the world once she becomes matured.

Hello Thanks, That was disgusting, it is a serious mistake they put the seal as ‘failed’. I can’t understand where they are concentrating while preparing important documents. All these mistakes can spoil one’s career for sure. I know your name well as I am from the same state of yours. The name is very much familiar to me. In my case it is not a big one as I am the mother of the child. Still I felt, this is the beginning and if I can correct it now then why should I spoil the opportunity. I felt irritated when she said; I have written my name wrongly.

Hello Venkit, First they said that it is me written the name wrongly in their records, second they asked me to come again another working day, I really got annoyed, I said I can’t come again (I have to take another permission from office to go and correct this) then she said, she can’t go and check the register at the moment as she is dealing with TC and parents may keep on coming. There my husband interfered and agreed to come again then she told me she will call me and inform how my name recorded in the register. Later she informed me on phone, I am right, she can issue a new TC with corrected name. Ramaswamy and Ramalekshmi, there is much difference in both name, I don’t know how they can make such a big mistake. The school is a private school and that is the reason we got the new TC quickly.

Hello venkit, I too thought the same, since the school is changing and I can correct the name here itself (this is a primary school) it will be good. Otherwise I may face more difficulties. Yes, that may be the possibility, then also 'Rajaleskshmi' wont be a male, it is a matter of common sense. Now I remember one incident in last summer vacation, we were travelling to Kerala in train, some other families were also with us. The other two familys booked their tickets together. The name of one person was 'Biju', as you know it is a male name but in ticket the gender was written as 'F' instead of 'M'. They have not checked this in the ticket earlier, they filled the form correctly and mentioned it 'M' rightly. When the ticket examiner came on checking the people with tickets he asked who is Biju, Biju, quickly replied, I am Biju. The examiner look on the ticket then look on him, he did this repeatedly, and then Biju felt something wrong. The examiner said, it is written as 'F' and it is an offence travelling a male in place of female. He asked fine for this offence.... finally talking long time with him, seeing the little kids... the examiner agreed to travel without fine by giving a warning. Next time, check your ticket before leaving the counter.

So you spend lot of time behind the TC, at least be happy that you got it right.. If it was a government school, you would not have got the new TC. It's good that you corrected it now itself, otherwise it will bring more problems in future.. And My brothers name is Ramaswamy and mother's name is Rajalekshmi, probably, they may have mixed the name and gave my brother a new name.. Have a nice day..

Hello Anand, That is the accuracy of our officials. In my Voting I card my father’s name is wrongly written, I took sometimes to read the name written in it. Here, the school officials sent a form before two months to write the name of the child and parent’s name again so that there won’t be any mistake in TC. We filled the form correctly and sent to the school, then also they written my name wrongly and blaming me for the mistake. Today she admitted her mistake and ready to re-write the TC. Thank you so much for your quick reply.

Hi friends, In my husband's voter id, his age is 26 & my MIL's age is also 26. Take care.

Hello flapiz, When they checked the record they realized that mistake is their and issued a fresh one with corrected spelling.

Hello else, It is difficult or time consuming process to change the name in Voter identity card. In my voter id my father's name is written differently, I can't read the name properly as I heard such a name for the first time.

Oh is it, really funny people

Of course,it's too long a process.Irritatingly long.Think about one of my relatives whose name is 'Chandrashekhar.'His name printed on his voter id is,'Chandrashekhar Hussain.'Secularism in true sense of the term.lol.

My name in my country is very common, that's why I say that. My name is common in most of European and American culture. If people have trouble spelling my name, then I begin to wonder where they are from because my name is so common, but somehow people still end up misspelling my name, and I often don't understand it.

Hello rogue, If I say like that then it may be rude. I must accept my name is not familiar in this place. I become annoyed when she said that I spelled my name wrongly, which never happen. (If I can't spell my name correctly what is the use of my education). Finally they have issued a fresh TC with the corrected name.

I can understand your feelings; I too wish to ask the same way you felt.

Sree - I hope that your son passed out with flying colours, inspite of spelling errors.

Yes.

Hello Deepak and Dupremo, I may be busy with school this whole week for getting results for both sons, to get books, attending parent's orientation etc. Luckily they have not misspelled my son's name, in that case I would have shouted on them for sure.

Hello Jenny, ha ha so you started your schooling very early (as you are younger than your class mates). The authority wanted your age equal to class mates, not a bad idea but why you become older than you actually (they can' decide it themselves). It is frustrating to know it took almost one year to correct it. Here they took only couple of days.

I knew that dear Jenny even if you didn't mention the same.

I could read since I was about 4 years old and since the I bugged my parent to send me to school. I still look young for my age, even now...

If there is no problem, then no need to worry. Please do the necessary steps to start your job as early as possible. Once again good luck to you.

Hello Cherish, First of all Congratulations for your nursing degree. There must be enough reason to be proud. I think you may join a new job very soon, best of luck to you. You said that your name is wrongly spelled in the certificate, can you change the same. Please make it sure that it won’t create any problem in your career life. If possible do correct it.

awww thank you Luckily i don't have a problem with my certificate. it was just on the streamer where my name was posted and spelled wrong. i am also going to claim my license as a nurse some time this week and i really hope there is no problem in it like my name being misspelled. thank you. i really hope i can finish all my papers very soon so i can finally work as a nurse real soon already.

Dear Maa, Yes the pronunciations are different in state to state with the same things. 'Prasadam' is the malayalam word infact. In South we write 'Sree'. That is not the case here, we have spelled it correctly to the school people, and they should have followed the same spelling which we have written in forms. May be they used with other spellings.

Hello honest, If a new person makes a mistake with my name then I can understand. I do spell it out clearly so that no mistakes happen. Here, school authority took another slip from us to make sure the spellings. Then again they done mistake. Thank you so much. Have a great day.