# Easily Misspelled Names -- Use At Your Own Risk

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easily-misspelled-names-use-at-your-own-risk/80345
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [September 8, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easily-misspelled-names-use-at-your-own-risk/80345 "2001-09-08T03:49:36Z")
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### Author: ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easily-misspelled-names-use-at-your-own-risk/80345/1 "2001-09-08T03:49:36Z")

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Case in point: singer Mary J. Blige.

You won’t be surprised that putting “Mary J. B **il** ge” into Google gets no fewer than 247 hits.

She was asking for it. Bilge. Yuck.