# Could you please spell my fucking name right? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 7, 2000, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556 "2000-12-07T22:09:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556/122 "2013-12-13T02:56:39Z")
My name is three incredibly common (northern European) names, with the most common variants for spelling. You have to work to misspell my names. I have received letters with ALL THREE names misspelled. People transliterating from different alphabets make fewer mistakes. So, don’t take it personally. (Yes, you might use a “u” instead of a “w” or a “a” instead of an “e”, if you lived anywhere else in this country, but we don’t) ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556/123 "2013-12-13T03:09:11Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > I STILL wonder about that. How does anyone make over 600 posts in a year? That’s almost two a day. Where do people find that much free time? My own self-pitting from 2003… [I have gone absolutely bugfuck with the posts.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=163011&highlight=bugfuck) ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556/124 "2013-12-13T05:47:35Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > And that’s not even Alyson- it’s her child! You know it’s a powerful grudge when even your children are holding on to it for her! Yeah, that was sure weird. _Especially_ considering what I said about Alyson herself was actually _nice_: > [@Shayna](#): > > I used to be friends with a girl named Alyson Allison.\*\* I witnessed a great deal of patience from her dealing with spelling her name for people\*\* who, when she’d finish the first name and start spelling the last, they’d cross off what they’d just written, thinking they must’ve gotten it wrong somehow. Huh? If they want the truth about why I’m no longer friends with their mother or aunt, whichever it is, they should ask her about Vail. I’m sure she won’t tell them the truth, but she knows what she did (and said). I’d like to hope she’s changed since then, but she’s from Texas, so I don’t hold out much hope. > [@Kimballkid](#): > > I’m kind of curious to know what Shayna wished would happen to the parents/grandparents and what their sad demise was. I’m sure she was referring to the offhand remark that her parents should be shot (which I clearly didn’t mean literally for god’s sakes) for saddling her with a name she was constantly having to explain to everyone. And though Anne may have been a family name, the way _she_ told the story herself, it was given to her because during her mother’s pregnancy they didn’t know the sex so they didn’t have a first name to call it — all they knew was that it would be “an Allison,” and after months of calling it just Allison or “an Allison,” they made it official and named her Alyson Anne Allison. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556/125 "2013-12-13T06:50:25Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Or pronunciation. I think it was Ralph Fiennes who gets pissed when people pronounce “Ralph” as the vast majority of the world pronounces it instead of as “Rafe”. Pretentious fuck. You mean the vast majority of the world doesn’t read Time. The very first “time” I learned he existed, the article quickly instructed readers, “rhymes with ‘safe signs,’” so I was never confused. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556/126 "2013-12-13T15:49:13Z")
> [@tracer](#): > > And OpalCat. I saw one of her posts in this thread too. ☹ That’s what clued me in that it was a zombie thread. ☹ I will add that one of the perks of getting married (besides gaining a wonderful husband) is that I no longer have to see my last name spelled wrong _all the time_. It was an easy mistake - usual spelling is with -en, mine is with -an, but it’s still annoying as fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556/127 "2013-12-13T15:59:16Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > And though Anne may have been a family name, the way _she_ told the story herself, it was given to her because during her mother’s pregnancy they didn’t know the sex so they didn’t have a first name to call it — all they knew was that it would be “an Allison,” and after months of calling it just Allison or “an Allison,” they made it official and named her Alyson Anne Allison. This thread just keeps getting better and better even though we had to wait 13 years for the sequel. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556/128 "2013-12-15T16:46:02Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > Maybe we should revive zombie threads around Easter and see how it goes for three days? > [@FXMastermind](#): > > OMG that is a fantastic idea. Easter Sunday could be a zombie day. No infractions for reviving the dead. > Oh calm down Mods. It is just an idea. My God, that is sick, twisted, and highly offensive! Job well done! ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556/129 "2013-12-15T17:39:12Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > My God, that is sick, twisted, and highly offensive! Imagine an entire zombie army, thousands of zombie threads rising up at once … … some things should probably never even be imagined :smack: ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556/130 "2013-12-16T02:35:17Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > I just love it when people have confusing spelling in their names and then go around mad at the rest of the world for not getting it right. Well, I’ve got the opposite problem. There are several ways people spell my first name. The way my parents (and therefore I) spelled it was just how you find it in an English translation of both Judges and 1 and 2 Samuel. The sheer number of ways I’ve had it misspelled over the years is really quite amazing. The worst is on my cable bill–I spelled it for him in person and he still managed to screw it up in all the ways possible simultaneously. I haven’t tried to fix it because I figure that with TWC I’ll wind up getting my cable cancelled on me or something. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556/131 "2013-12-16T03:01:35Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > . I haven’t tried to fix it because I figure that with TWC I’ll wind up getting my cable cancelled on me or something. I’m confused, did you accidentally the downside of trying to correct the spelling. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556/132 "2013-12-17T13:00:07Z")
> [@shaynahasnoclue](#): > > It was easier for her to jokingly tell ignorant and confused people that her father stuttered. Fortunately, she did change her name once she moved far away, married and had children. > > ## Shayna, you virtually got your sick wish about the sad demise of “her parents”, our grandparents. It hurt looking up our families names and running across your tasteless and inaccurate post. It also proves once again that she was telling the truth about her so-called friends from the past. Btw, we think her former name is beautiful even if it was different! > > P.S.: Best wishes Esprix 😉 If it’s beautiful, why was it fortunate she changed it? And if you’re going to hang around on the internet you should really learn about hyperbole and how to tell exaggeration from “sick wishes”. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556/133 "2013-12-17T17:59:01Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Well, I’ve got the opposite problem. There are several ways people spell my first name. The way my parents (and therefore I) spelled it was just how you find it in an English translation of both Judges and 1 and 2 Samuel. The sheer number of ways I’ve had it misspelled over the years is really quite amazing. The worst is on my cable bill–I spelled it for him in person and he still managed to screw it up in all the ways possible simultaneously. I haven’t tried to fix it because I figure that with TWC I’ll wind up getting my cable cancelled on me or something. Ms. Chanandler Bong, is that you? ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556/134 "2014-01-08T23:26:17Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > True story, swear to God: when I was a newbie Esprix was one of the first people I noticed on a consistent basis (JillGat was the other). He had like 500-600 posts and I was like, “Man, I’ll NEVER have that many posts. How does he find the time?” I used to have a LOT of free time. Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556/135 "2014-01-09T01:24:59Z")
> [@Esprix](#): > > I used to have a LOT of free time. > > Esprix He’s here. Someone tie him down! ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556/136 "2014-01-09T01:32:22Z")
You can’t tie him down, he’s a free\*\* Espirit\*\*! ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556/137 "2014-01-09T01:44:14Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > OMG that is a fantastic idea. Easter Sunday could be a zombie day. No infractions for reviving the dead. > Oh calm down Mods. It is just an idea. I feel a few things about this sort of thing… [ol] [li]Funny![/li][li]Evil![/li][li]Hi, ZombieOpal![/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556/138 "2014-01-09T07:00:16Z")
One Final Comment: Esprix, with that kind of typing skill you certainly deserve to have your name pronounced right. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556/139 "2014-01-09T17:09:56Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > I STILL wonder about that. How does anyone make over 600 posts in a year? That’s almost two a day. Where do people find that much free time? Work. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556/140 "2014-01-09T17:28:51Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > He’s here. Someone tie him down! No-That’s just what he wants! ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556/141 "2014-01-09T17:39:12Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > With auto spellcheck so easy and ever present, nobody should ever make a spelking error. Maybe the OP should use, like, English … _la mente_ … besides, spelting is overratted. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-please-spell-my-fucking-name-right/44556.md?page=8)