Well, I have had a phone in my name for over 20 years, the bill has always had my name, correctly spelled, on it.
So I sign up for high speed phone access for my computer, different billing but comes also in my, correctly spelled, name. But I was getting the bill before I got the computer configged ( needed a little help, that’s all, it took some time to arrange…).
When I do get it all set up and check my email address, you guessed it - - they mispelled my name.
Boneheads!
My first name is pretty common, and while I don’t mind telling people that it doesn’t have an “e” at the end, it bugs the honk out of me when people who should know how to spell it add the “e” anyway. There’s one person I work with who does this regularly in email, so I misspell her name back. I don’t think she’s noticed, though.
My maiden name is Bebb. Pronounced Bebb. Not Beeb, or Beebe, or Bibb, or Babb. And that first letter? Thay’s a B, not a W, D, N, K, or G. You’d be surprised at how many teachers can’t properly pronounce such a simple name – I got Beeb almost every year. :rolleyes:
Our last name is fairly common. It also happens to be the same last name as a Hollywood actress.
Now, my daughter’s name is close enough to this actress’s first name as to cause confusion among those who don’t listen. I even had someone snottily say to me, “I can’t believe you named your daughter X, as in XX.”
I looked at him and said, “We didn’t. Her name is Y.”
Probably not, my last name does have three syllables.
Actually if someone said your first name, I’d automatically think “ph”.
And FairyChatMom-I’ve always spelled it “Sarah”, seems natural to me. Though that may be because it was my grandmother’s name.
Tell me about it. My last name is “Cartwright”. Once people associate it with Bonanza, they tend not to misspell it. Until then, it’s been mangled every which way.
Robin
My first name and last name can cause troubles.
My first name has a “q” in it. I like that. I like q’s. But as most people know, most words with q’s also have a u. As in “quiet” or “quit” and so forth. So why do people remove the “u” from my name? I have no idea. (And just for the record, my name is not terribly uncommon and some famous people have the same name.)
People also tend to immediately call me by my nickname, even after they are given my full name. It’s like they just do it, without even blinking. Like my full name just went through some “nickname filter” where they didn’t even hear my full name. I dislike the nickname because there isn’t any “q” in it. Besides, it’s polite to be asked if you want to be called by your nickname. But people simply do not get this. I think it’s somewhat rude.
So, I’ve resorted (for some years now) to going by my initials only. I like this. It doesn’t allow people the opportunity to call me by my disliked nickname. It also makes my name much easier to spell. But some people don’t like this because I guess they feel entitled to know my full name (just so they can immediately call me by my nickname, I suppose :rolleyes: ). Too bad. I don’t care. They don’t get to know 'cause all they’ll do is screw it up anyway. (Do I have issues? No! ;))
My last name is not hard to pronounce, not hard to spell, but is far more common in the UK than in America. (However, I don’t think it’s that common in the UK, though a famous British author did title a book with my last name!) But unless I spell out my name, people will invariably mispell it, using a word that is related to garbage (yes, isn’t that delightful!). So I always have to spell it out. Annoying.
My first name is not particularly common, but it’s also not particularly difficult to pronounce if you just say it the way it’s spelled. That doesn’t stop people from looking right at it and then mentally adding and pronouncing the letter they expect in the more common version of the name. It’s sort of like looking at the name “Jonathan” and deciding it actually says “Jondathan,” if the latter were a common variant of the former, if that makes any sense.
My last name (Dunehew) is an uncommon spelling of a more-common one (Donohue). People rarely get it right even if they are trying to spell it the more common way. I have received mail addressed to “Mr. Dune Hen” and “Mr. Dun Chew”, along with many other less-amusing variants.
Recently, at a V.A. clinic appointment, I had them correct my middle initial on some paperwork. “Are you sure?” :rolleyes:
–SSgtBaloo
You’re wrong. 
The last name (also more commonly spelled Lucas than Lukas) undoubtedly influenced this. Meanwhile, English-language Bibles feature The Gospel According to Luke. The last name Luce is pronounced “loose”, as in Henry Luce of publishing fame.
I can only empathize.
I don’t care how many babies you know named Kayla. There is only one a in my name. I don’t care that you know someone named Kayla and that’s why you keep screwing it up (it is absolutely amazing how many people give me this excuse for repeatedly misseplling/mispronouncing my name), there’s still only one a in my name. And yes, I will continue to correct you every time you get it wrong because you’re saying/spelling it wrong. No, I am not going to eventually get over it and allow you to address me by the wrong name. You’re the one who’s wrong here, not me!
Don’t even get me started on my last name. At least it’s unique enough (it’s hyphenated) that people don’t attempt to rearrange it for me, usually. I guess they figure there’s no way they could possibly be right without me telling them, so they don’t bother guessing/correcting.
Why do I always run into people who have no idea how to pronounce a German name? It’s only 7 letters long, people! CH is pronounced like a K…how hard can it be? But during the Nixon years, I would always get people pronouncing it “Erlichmann.” Excuse me? That’s 3 letters too many! Doesn’t anyone watch the History Channel? :mad:
I once made a grad student from my alma mater call back 4 times until she got the pronunciation right. 
My given name is Laura, and the entire world wants to call me “Laurie.” I’ve hated it all my life, and just a couple years ago finally learned why: When I was very young, we were living abroad and my parents had many British friends, so I heard lots of British English. So whenever anyone would call me Laurie, I would reply, “I am not a truck!”
On the other hand, my maiden name is a color. A very simple color. So why did the school secretary call me my sister’s first name followed by the WRONG color?
My married name now is very easy, five letters, ends in LY. I spell it out for people. I say, “It only has one E in it.” So even though I spell it out for them, they promptly repeat it back to me with the extra E. Every single bleeping time.
It’s a conspiracy, I tell you. A conspiracy.