People who don't know how to spell your name or location
By snowy
@snowy22315 (183663)
United States
January 18, 2025 8:39am CST
For those of you who don't know my first name is Karen.with a K. I seem to invariably run into people I need to give my name to that want to know if it is with a C or a K. In all my years of being a Karen, and knowing Karen's I have probably only known of two that spelled it with a C. Do you run into people wanting to spell your name wrong?
Another thing is people constantly want to put an m in my street name when it's an n. I try to take care to enunciate it so people don't get confused. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
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@LooeyVille (61)
• United States
6h
Yes my name is Lori and they want to spell it laurie
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@NJChicaa (120731)
• United States
5h
@snowy22315 I could kill whoever let that detail slip on here first. 
That is my middle name which I have always been called by. No one in my life has ever addressed me by my legal first name aside from telemarketers and strangers.
That is my middle name which I have always been called by. No one in my life has ever addressed me by my legal first name aside from telemarketers and strangers.1 person likes this
@Juliaacv (51959)
• Canada
6h
I have only ever heard of your first name being spelt Karen or some east Indians shorten their name from Karindeep to Karin. But the names are not the same.
I often, almost always get my name, Julia, spelt like the month, July.
We live on Capulet Lane, and rarely can anyone spell Capulet.
Didn't anyone read Romeo and Juliet-her last name was Capulet.
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@snowy22315 (183663)
• United States
5h
I would have thought you would get Julie..Who has ever known somebody named July? Although I have heard of people named June an August.
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@Juliaacv (51959)
• Canada
5h
@snowy22315 I get Jules too, and that just pisses me off to the point where I will repeat my name and advise the person NOT to call me anything otherwise. Julie or Julia are interchangeable for me, and I answer easily to both and give both names also. But when people say Julia or Julie and spell it J-U-L-Y I just shake my head and wonder how they made it out of grade school with such ignorance.
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@Tampa_girl7 (50937)
• United States
5h
I have never heard of Karen starting with a C. That must be frustrating. My husband’s name does have a different spelling than most. We constantly have to spell his name out to people.
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@snowy22315 (183663)
• United States
5h
I knew one in school, and one I saw on a nametag was Carin.
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@Marilynda1225 (83423)
• United States
2h
My daughters name is Karen (with a a K) and I've never really seen it spelled with a C but I can see where it might be spelled that way.
As for me most people mispronounce my name rather than misspell it. All my working years I was commonly called Marion, Madeline, Maryann instead of my given name Marilyn. If I corrected someone they would say
"oh like Monroe"
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@marguicha (224301)
• Chile
4h
My first name ( a German name) is often miss spelled here. And my last name is so difficult for people that when I take garments to the dry cleaners, I give my grandmother´s last name as my own.
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@much2say (56673)
• Los Angeles, California
1h
I had a little chuckle because we just met this man in our tai chi class who goes by "Karlo with a K" 
. It's interesting because all the Carlo's I know, it's with a C . . . just like all Karen's that I know have been with a K. But I guess these days there are just so many variations. My name is Japanese - believe me, it has been butchered all my life 
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. It's interesting because all the Carlo's I know, it's with a C . . . just like all Karen's that I know have been with a K. But I guess these days there are just so many variations. My name is Japanese - believe me, it has been butchered all my life .
@FourWalls (70078)
• United States
3h
What a coincidence, my name is Karen, too! Since the advent of those “Karen” memes I don’t have people asking how to spell it anymore.
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@1creekgirl (42005)
• United States
5h
I've never seen Karen spelled with a C. People always ask me if my name is y or ie at the end and I tell them it's just I.
My maiden name was Dutch/German so I always just spelled it.
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@snowy22315 (183663)
• United States
2h
My last name isn't usually a problem Usually that is
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