Post by mintygreen on May 28, 2012 13:30:17 GMT -5
Does your name get messed up by people on a regular basis(or even sometimes)?
Just thought it would be an interesting thing to ask people....and this forum is rather inactive, so I try to make it more active. XD
Anyway, my name is Kathleen and you wouldn't think people would mess it up a lot but they do. People very often mistakenly call me Katherine/Catherine. And if people don't remember my name exactly and only kind of remember it....they assume that I'm a Katherine/Catherine....not a Kathleen.
I do of course also always have to tell people that my name starts with a K and not a C since even if they remember my name, some girls are named Cathleen and so they sometimes get that wrong.
I've also had multiple people spell my name accidentally as Kathlene for some reason. Is there even anyone with that spelling? I guess there probably is but I'm pretty sure Kathleen is more common, so why do a fair number of people accidentally get that wrong with my name?
I guess I'll never know.
I'm not even going to get into how many people mess up my last name and spell it wrong or pronounce it wrong. Even after I correct people, they still do it wrong. I remember in high school when they'd say my name over the PA system when I got down there I would correct them but the next time they called me on the PA....they would still say it wrong.
My last name is short, only 4 letters.....but it gets horribly mutilated a lot by people. I don't really blame people for pronouncing it wrong because it doesn't sound like it's spelled at all really....but they still forget after I tell them the correct way to say it. XD It gets spelled wrong by people a lot too, even though it's only 4 letters long.
Just thought it would be an interesting thing to ask people....and this forum is rather inactive, so I try to make it more active. XD
Anyway, my name is Kathleen and you wouldn't think people would mess it up a lot but they do. People very often mistakenly call me Katherine/Catherine. And if people don't remember my name exactly and only kind of remember it....they assume that I'm a Katherine/Catherine....not a Kathleen.
I do of course also always have to tell people that my name starts with a K and not a C since even if they remember my name, some girls are named Cathleen and so they sometimes get that wrong.
I've also had multiple people spell my name accidentally as Kathlene for some reason. Is there even anyone with that spelling? I guess there probably is but I'm pretty sure Kathleen is more common, so why do a fair number of people accidentally get that wrong with my name?
I guess I'll never know.
I'm not even going to get into how many people mess up my last name and spell it wrong or pronounce it wrong. Even after I correct people, they still do it wrong. I remember in high school when they'd say my name over the PA system when I got down there I would correct them but the next time they called me on the PA....they would still say it wrong.
My last name is short, only 4 letters.....but it gets horribly mutilated a lot by people. I don't really blame people for pronouncing it wrong because it doesn't sound like it's spelled at all really....but they still forget after I tell them the correct way to say it. XD It gets spelled wrong by people a lot too, even though it's only 4 letters long.
