Could you please spell my fucking name right?

[Patch]

@Esprix

Esprix, 123 wpm and does this for a living, thankyouverymuch…

Can you really make a living bitching about how people spell your name?

[kaylasdad99]

@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!

Not necessarily. Could be a niece or a nephew.

Welcome to the SDMB, shaynahasnoclue (you may wish to change that if you decide to stick around).

[kaylasdad99]

@Esprix

Esprix, 123 wpm and does this for a living, thankyouverymuch…

@Patch

Can you really make a living bitching about how people spell your name?

Well, not NOW, obviously. :rolleyes: Back in 2000, it was practically a cottage industry. You 2005 n00bs can’t be expected to know that, though, so you’re forgiven.

THIS time.

[kaylasdad99]

@kaylasdad99

Welcome to the SDMB, shaynahasnoclue (you may wish to change that [username] if you decide to stick around).

Come to think of it, ESPECIALLY on account of the fact that you might actually know Shayna personally.

[bup]

@shaynahasnoclue

Shayna, you virtually got your sick wish about the sad demise of “her parents”, our grandparents.

They got shot for naming their daughter Allison Anne Alleyson?

[Smeghead]

Aw, man. For a brief moment, I thought that perhaps Esprix was back.

[Happy_Fun_Ball]

@Smeghead

Aw, man. For a brief moment, I thought that perhaps Esprix was back.

Yeah, me too. That was the only reason I clicked on the thread.

[dougie_monty]

@casdave

…and what do we call you when you ain’t fucking ?

Touché! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!

[El_Kabong]

@Biggirl

Wow Allyson Anne Allison, you sure know how to hold on to a grudge.

Pfft. That’s nothing. My grandmother’s been dead 20 years, but she annoyed me so much sometimes that to this day I’ll occasionally drive out to the cemetery and glare at her headstone for a while.

[FXMastermind]

Goddamn it I start reading a thread and it’s all like awesome and fun and then I realize it’s from 2000.

Pictures of Lily

[Biggirl]

@FXMastermind

Goddamn it I start reading a thread and it’s all like awesome and fun and then I realize it’s from 2000.

Pictures of Lily

I know! I was all diisappointed. I’m coming back in 13 years to curse noclue out.

[dougie_monty]

@Esprix

OK, it’s bad enough that IRL I’ve seen my name spelled four different ways, regardless of the fact that I spell it the simplest way. (And, I might add, my professional phone manner at work, combined with the fact that people have certain expectations of what a secretary should be, makes a lot of people refer to me as “ma’am” on the phone, and every so often it pisses me off.) But now I have to contend with a thousand and one different ways to spell my screen name here.

Let’s say it together, goys and birls: Esprix

E
S
P
R
I
X

E-S-P-R-I-X

It’s pronounced “es-PREE.” It’s a derivitive of the French word esprit. It’s not “Es-spirit.” It’s not “Es-pricks.” It’s not spelled “espirit” or “espirix” or anything else.

Poor typing skills is no excuse for being a moron.

Thank you.

Esprix, 123 wpm and does this for a living, thankyouverymuch…

Forgive me. I had thought it was “ess-pricks” (making no French association with the name), and let it go at that. OK. Ess-pree. I got it now. When I was in high school, some people wrote my name as “Dough Montgummery.”

[FXMastermind]

@Smeghead

Aw, man. For a brief moment, I thought that perhaps Esprix was back.

Well if you really miss him, you can always say hello here

My Gorgeous Life

[Miller]

@shaynahasnoclue

Yes, let’s fight ignorance!

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[kaylasdad99]

@dougie_monty

Touché! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Did you just now get that, dougie?

Wow.

[Cat_Whisperer]

And here I was, all set to bitch about yet another Christmas of my in-laws spelling my name wrong, after seeing the correct spelling for 13 years now. My husband’s cousin has the same name, but she spells her version without an E, so I guess they all figure that’s the only way it can be spelled. Heaven forbid they should actually LOOK at how I spell it in all the emails and cards I’ve given THEM over the years.

Hmm, I might have a little pent-up bitterness about this.

[EmilyG]

@Cat_Whisperer

And here I was, all set to bitch about yet another Christmas of my in-laws spelling my name wrong, after seeing the correct spelling for 13 years now. My husband’s cousin has the same name, but she spells her version without an E, so I guess they all figure that’s the only way it can be spelled. Heaven forbid they should actually LOOK at how I spell it in all the emails and cards I’ve given THEM over the years.

Hmm, I might have a little pent-up bitterness about this.

I’ve seen some dumb misspellings of my name. “Emilie” I don’t mind as much, because it’s close to the French version of my name, but I hate it when people spell my name “Emely” or “Emilly.” Arrgh.

[Little_Nemo]

So wait a second … are you guys saying Rix doesn’t have ESP?

I feel like I’ve been living in a lie these last thirteen years.

[digs]

Ehh… we have a (Swiss) last name that gets misspelled all the time. My kid got a part in a skate video, with his name super’ed over him doing a trick.

Yep, wrong spelling. I told him to get used to it, he says he doesn’t care.

If he or my wife ever does, we could always pick a new last name. Maybe Jones (Jeâuxnz?)

[dougie_monty]

@kaylasdad99

Did you just now get that, dougie?

Wow.

I only just KNEW about it.