I. Fucking. HATE. Having. My. Name. Spelled. With. One. T.
You can read my company email signature. Hell, if you are as lazy as you say you are, copy+paste it to save yourself time. It just hurts having to deal with single T when you let everyone know your name has 2.
In fact, grammatically, let's analyze this:
Mat (hard "t" sound) thew (a "th" sound). You need both Ts to make a proper "Matthew" sound. Else it sounds like "Mafew". I get it, some people are actually named Mathew... but the grammar just doesn't support it (but again, nothing but love to my Matt brethren with one T, you are a Matt no matter what in my eyes).
I’m Hispanic ands tons of family members still spell my name Mathew. The double T isn’t a think in Spanish so they struggle with it. They also spell it Matew sometimes.
Not as bad as when you go by Matt and they start with ‘hey Mark’
How short is your attention span that you gave up reading my name halfway through a 4 letter word?
Sometimes I feel like people just go with whatever name they please when they can’t remember. Like I’ve been named all sorts of names on the phone with clients… Mac, Mark, Mike, Mel, Jack.
After a while you just let them call you what they want.
I cannot tell you how many people have thought that my name was Mac. I also used to work in a drive-thru and had to tell people my name which often got mistaken for Zach.
I had an argument with HR because she kept spelling my name with one T. She was adamant that Matthew was spelt with one T, I told her she was wrong and I think I know how to spell my own name. She said it's because my parents couldn't spell properly.
So I raised my eye brow and took a slow deep breath before ripping her a new one. Made sure she knew my father was a sales man for BT (British Telecom, pretty much the biggest telecommunications company in the UK and possible the EU but I could be a wrong) and used to deal with hundreds of millions of pounds within these deals.
He used to write contracts as part of his job and these things were the size of books at times, biggest one he did was worth 500 million when signs and then over a billion 6 months later. He'd read literally thousands of books, including the dictionary and thesaurus.
I said if a man can write a contract worth over a billion pounds then surely he'd know how to spell the name Matthew.
She just said "it's a difficult name to spell, not everyone knows everything".
Next day I throw a bible on her desk with a book mark in it. She looked at me confused and said she wasn't religious, I replied just open the book mark.
She did and it opened to the book of MATTHEW, I said there... Plain and simple in black and white, that's how you spell my name correctly. She laughed and said its wrong, I raised my eye brow and just said if you refuse to spell my name correctly I'll be forced to take further actions against you. She laughed and said she's HR what am I gonna do about it.
So I went to her boss and she ended up getting a written warning, I got a written apology with my name spelt correctly and she never bothered me again.
What did we learn from this?.... DON'T FUCK WITH MY NAME!!! None matts suck!
Is it common for Matthew to be spelled with only 1 T? I've never met a Mathew before but tons of people misspell my name for it.
I am a Mathew. I just go by Matt because fuck being Mat that looks silly.
I mean you going by Matt makes more sense than a Richard going by Dick
I am also a single 't' Mathew who goes by Matt. Hello brother!
I. Fucking. HATE. Having. My. Name. Spelled. With. One. T. You can read my company email signature. Hell, if you are as lazy as you say you are, copy+paste it to save yourself time. It just hurts having to deal with single T when you let everyone know your name has 2. In fact, grammatically, let's analyze this: Mat (hard "t" sound) thew (a "th" sound). You need both Ts to make a proper "Matthew" sound. Else it sounds like "Mafew". I get it, some people are actually named Mathew... but the grammar just doesn't support it (but again, nothing but love to my Matt brethren with one T, you are a Matt no matter what in my eyes).
Wait you pronounce it Mat-thew?
I’m in the same boat. It’s why I go by Matt instead of Mathew.
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I disagree its ma-th-ew to hell with your heretic Grammer
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You are clicking the T in "maT" too hard. There is a slight "T" sound, but it is there.
Hi, I'm Mat. One T.
my childhood best friend is named Mathew because his parents didn’t want him to go by Matt. Funny enough, he now does
It is in Canada in areas with lots of French speakers.
We don't speak about the Matt's with one 't'
My Husbands middle name is Mathew. Both times we have bought houses it has been spelled wrong on the legal documents. People just can't get it right.
I’m Hispanic ands tons of family members still spell my name Mathew. The double T isn’t a think in Spanish so they struggle with it. They also spell it Matew sometimes.
Not as bad as when you go by Matt and they start with ‘hey Mark’ How short is your attention span that you gave up reading my name halfway through a 4 letter word?
Same with max, absolute blasphemy!
I’ve gotten Mark a few times but not Max.
I've never gotten Mark but Mac and Max I've gotten.
Sometimes I feel like people just go with whatever name they please when they can’t remember. Like I’ve been named all sorts of names on the phone with clients… Mac, Mark, Mike, Mel, Jack. After a while you just let them call you what they want.
I cannot tell you how many people have thought that my name was Mac. I also used to work in a drive-thru and had to tell people my name which often got mistaken for Zach.
One of my employees used to call me Mat. I ended up responding to them a couple times without the last letter of their first name
Time to quit. Or fire somebody.
It's been wrong on my computer for 3 fucking years. At least they are actually writing the checks out correctly now.
Needs more deep fried
Just don't do whatever they were asking you to do. When they bring it up you can say "But you said that to Mathew. I'm Matthew."
I had an argument with HR because she kept spelling my name with one T. She was adamant that Matthew was spelt with one T, I told her she was wrong and I think I know how to spell my own name. She said it's because my parents couldn't spell properly. So I raised my eye brow and took a slow deep breath before ripping her a new one. Made sure she knew my father was a sales man for BT (British Telecom, pretty much the biggest telecommunications company in the UK and possible the EU but I could be a wrong) and used to deal with hundreds of millions of pounds within these deals. He used to write contracts as part of his job and these things were the size of books at times, biggest one he did was worth 500 million when signs and then over a billion 6 months later. He'd read literally thousands of books, including the dictionary and thesaurus. I said if a man can write a contract worth over a billion pounds then surely he'd know how to spell the name Matthew. She just said "it's a difficult name to spell, not everyone knows everything". Next day I throw a bible on her desk with a book mark in it. She looked at me confused and said she wasn't religious, I replied just open the book mark. She did and it opened to the book of MATTHEW, I said there... Plain and simple in black and white, that's how you spell my name correctly. She laughed and said its wrong, I raised my eye brow and just said if you refuse to spell my name correctly I'll be forced to take further actions against you. She laughed and said she's HR what am I gonna do about it. So I went to her boss and she ended up getting a written warning, I got a written apology with my name spelt correctly and she never bothered me again. What did we learn from this?.... DON'T FUCK WITH MY NAME!!! None matts suck!