Jonathan. J-O-N.

[MsRobyn]

*Originally posted by Jonathan Chance *
**Wow.

We should start a support group.

However, mine’s just a handle. But it does bug me.

Same with my little girls name. It’s ‘Kathleen’, called ‘Kate’. Not ‘Katie’…not ‘Katy’.

And certainly not ‘Katty’.

Just ‘Kate’. If I could get daycare to believe that (all children’s names must apparently be diminutives) I could be a happy man.

J-O-N-A-T-H-A-N **

Why do you think I named Aaron Aaron? There is no diminutive for that, unless you count Ronnie and no one I’ve met has the temerity to do that.

Robin

[ioioio]

J-O-N, I was going to post something cute about calling you “eddy” and you could call me “al”. I wanted to make sure I had the lyrics right, so I did a google and found the site http://www.acelyrics.com/error404.html
which says the lyrics to Paul Simon’s “Bodyguard” are…

i can call you betty
and betty when you call me
you can call me al

Kinda puts your problem in perspective, no?

Also, look for Paul Simon under “P”, not “S”.

[tdn]

I think the Jon-John thing is understandable, at least for people that have never seen the name in writing.

But some of the names I have been called, yeesh! My name is Todd. I have been called

Tod
Bob
Robert
Jo(h)n
Scott
Henry

And from a company that desperately wanted my money: Toddral

[Jonathan_Chance]

I’ve got a vendor who’s name is Todd. He goes by Toddums, God help me. Even has that on his license plate.

It’d be a deal-breaker but he provides REALLY good pricing.

[ascrivey]

*Originally posted by MsRobyn *
**And while we’re on the subject…

My son’s name is Aaron. Note the two A’s at the beginning of his name. It’s not Aron, or (God help us) Erin.

Thank you.

Robin **

Leaving the lurking world, Ms. Robin to let you know that I have a student named Arron and one named Aaron. Sometimes I get so confused, I could weep. Arron? With 2 r’s? WTF?

[Skerri]

Feh. At least Jonathan is a common name. Try living with “Kerri”. My aunt and uncle have been married for 20 years, they still can’t get my name down correctly. Every year my birthday/Christmas presents from them are labeled Kerrie, Karri, Karrie, Carrie, Carey, or Kerry. Not once has it been spelled correctly. I get mail addressed to Karen, Karyn, Carol, Corrine, and Kerwin. (Where they got the last one, I don’t know.)

And no, don’t get me started on my last name. That’s just an added bonus when I get married to Boyfriend, changing my last name to something completely recognizable and relatively easy to spell!

[Flamsterette_X]

*Originally posted by tdn *
**I think the Jon-John thing is understandable, at least for people that have never seen the name in writing.

But some of the names I have been called, yeesh! My name is Todd. I have been called

Tod
Bob
Robert
Jo(h)n
Scott
Henry

And from a company that desperately wanted my money: Toddral

**

Well, I am a female Leslie… as previously stated. You wouldn’t believe some of the things I’ve been called… some by people who had known me for at least a couple of years!

Lisa
Leanne
Wesley ( I am NOT a boy!)
Louise
Lindsay
Then there was the time where a company that wanted my money called me Mr. Leslie [LastName]. Yup, that’s right… in plain letters on the envelope. Reminded me of high school, really…

F_X

[Jerrybear]

Looks like somebody beat me to mentioning Robyn Hitchcock. I think I have one of his albums somewhere in my collection.

[fizzestothetop]

My middle name is a family name. From my father’s side of the family.

Every year, without fail, one of his brothers sends out a family calendar. Every year since the first one I was born, he’s spelled my middle name O’Brien or O’Brian or O’Bryen or something other than O’Bryan. Every year we’ve corrected him.

Every year he gets it wrong. I don’t even want to know how he’s going to mangle fizzy’s name.

[iampunha]

Fizzy both does not have O’Bryan as a middle name and rarely (if ever) posts in the third person.

Three guesses as to who that was…

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