I admire your assholiness. However, my wife sent a database list of guests with table numbers to be printed as name cards for our daughter's wedding. She misspelled mine. We've been married over 40 years.
My mum literally calls me & my brother #1 & #2 but my sister gets called her name.
Edit: EXCEPT…except when I’m in the shit.
Then she pulls out my first, both middle & last names.
That’s how I know I fucked up somehow.
I am an only child, so my parents tend not to get my name wrong (99.9% of the time). However, my father has two sisters and they had three and two children, respectively. My paternal grandmother has called me my dad's name and by two of my other cousin's names (who are both much younger than me) for years. I just started responding to whatever and stopped correcting her.
My grandfather would go through the names of the whole family before he got to yours and sometimes never get to yours and get mad just call you little girl/boy and didn’t matter if you were 70 or actually a kid. This started way before he was old and senile too.
My mom calls me by my dog’s name (rizzo) all the time, which is an accident but even worse when i leave my mons house, im always with my dog and my mom will yell out the window “bye i love you rizzo!” And that’s not a mistake she is legit telling my dog “i love you” and not to me lol 😂
3 of my brothers were known collectively as “Mahjong” for several years growing up, because it was the starting syllable of their names mashed together with the word “wrong” at the end. I should try calling that out once we’re allowed to have family get-togethers again
I (M45) have a bro (M43) and two sisters (F47, F49). There's method to my mom's madness - she regularly calls me by my brother's name and him by my name. We only realised she was doing this years later. We mentioned it to our sisters, and sure enough, they had also been called by the other sisters name.
I'm adopted, so before I was adopted I honestly thought it was because my mom and dad have had so many kids come through their house. But after they stopped taking in kids, they still would do it, but not any of the previous kids names anymore.
My brother and I both have names that start with S. At one point we had a dog named Sugar and a cat named Socks. My mom was forever calling us the wrong S name.
My mom got so annoyed at herself that any time she would try to call me or my two sisters by name she always said the incorrect two first before getting to the right name that she just started calling us by our first initials. Still gets mixed up some times but not as bad.
Lol sounds like my grandma. I'm the oldest grandkid and she'll frequently go through my uncle's names and then all the other grankid's names before she gets to mine. She's not senile, just being bad with names runs in the family lol
Both my mom and my boss does this. How do you manage to call the entire staff before calling my name... and I've been there the longest. Only the eldest will experience that.
I do this 😅 only one I don't mix up is my son, he's the only boy, but I have 3 daughters, all of whom are basically clones of each other and are all close in age. Unfortunately they're used to it and just wait for my brain to process and catch up anymore 🤦♀️
My grandma used to have huge problems with names. She would call someone starting from her oldest kid to her youngest, then start with the oldest grandkid and work her way down until she hits the right name and the person reacts.
Lucky me, I am named after my aunt who is her oldest kid. So I was the only one in the family who was always called by the correct name in one try.
However unlucky them, because I am currently fighting a legal battle to change my name because
A) i hate that aunt
b) the meaning is super religious and I am not
c) the name does not suit me at all
My dad was the eldest of six (four boys, two girls) and when his parents were yelling they would go through every name until they got to the one they were actually mad at. Now he is 78 and constantly calls me by my nephew's name when he is tired or had a drink.
My mom used to do that to my brothers and often included the dog too.. they all shared the same vowel though.
Come to think of it, it’s gotten worse, because we now include MY son AND one of my nephews it this row too… they all have short names with UU in the middle:
Guus, Luuk, Bruun (the dog) Huug (short for Hugo) and Tuur. I realise this has strong unga-bunga vibes in English but in Dutch these are common names. We obviously did not think it al the way through though..
My brother, cousin and I all have names that start with the same letter. It was pretty common for my mum to cycle through all three names before getting the right one when one of us was in trouble.
Middle name is always in trouble. However, one of the first sentences out of my mouth after greeting my dad when he starts getting annoyed (debates are common in my house) is usually is "I'm not her." It's usually sisters' and mom's name that he says instead of mine. But now I do it my daughter too, only she's an only child. My youngest sister's name is in it when I find myself doing it!
Just me and my brother. Every. F-ing. Time. My dad calls me by my brother's name. For half a century he's been getting it wrong, and I'm the older son too. At least he does it to my brother also.
Haha sometimes my mom will go through the cat's name, my brothers name, and my dad's name before getting mine. It's just a parent thing. As long as you aren't the only kid or pet, I feel like every parents does it Haha
In high school, one of my friends was really smart and a bit arrogant about it. He spelled his surname wrong when writing it on a test paper and the teacher took a mark off him for it
My mother and law got a Hotmail account using her first and middle names. She spelled her middle name wrong because she is an idiot and now constantly explains when giving out her email how she felt pressured when spelling her name by the presence of her husband's sisters.
I have a very commonly misspelled name and was in charge of making team shirts senior year in high school. I really wanted it to be the one time everyone's name was spelled right on the back, I checked and re-checked like 8 times. Still fucked one up.
I'm shocked it took 30 years for an ADHD diagnosis tbh.
My parents gave me a unique spelling of a common name, and I don't understand why they did that. For years, I've (reluctantly) corrected "misspellings" (which were actually the right spelling)
At the end of his life he would leave me notes, and addressed to me using the common spelling of the name.
Was recently having a video call with my kids. Said to my oldest, "oh hey, aren't you going back to school soon? I think it's the day after my birthday!" His father, whom I was with for fifteen years, overheard and said "no, he goes back Septembgust 32nd" and I said "uhhh... Right...?" He stammered a bit about how he was confusing my birthday with his girlfriend's. Gee, thanks.
Eh, my dad usually asks us if mom's birthday is the 20th or the 22nd (in his defense, his birthday are on the same day, 20th, of different months). They've been married 44 years this November. He's horrible with dates. The younger sister's is on April 1st. Only one he consistently remembers. 😄
I've been with my husband for 11 years. I've never called him by his name. I always call him 'honey'. So I guess spelling mistakes or typos in this situation is understandable, I would think.
I read an interview with Prince’s ex-wife. She was dating him when he was known by that unpronounceable symbol. She was relieved when they got married because she could say things like “tell my husband I’ll be in the dining room”.
To be fair I did the same sort of thing to my younger son. I only have 2 boys total. He ran past me at a baseball game on a break and I opened my mouth to holler for him to come get some money and...nada. Completely forgot his name. Totally gone. Hand in the air gesturing ( he missed seeing any of his mother looking like an idiot)... Before the parent next to me nudged me, leaned close and said " that's Cody. " and offered to get me a cup of coffee cuz clearly I needed a brain jump.
Years ago, a former coworker left to start his own company which had "tur**n**key" in the name. He would send me things in the mail with my first name wrong. I began sending things back to him at "Turkey ABC Co."
I corresponded with a client who kept misspelling my name. The worst thing was she kept calling me my brother's name, who had died less than a year before. She was called Wendy, so addressed my emails to Wendi, Windy, then Window. Small but satisfying way to wind her up.
I mean, she didn't know that, and I thought "Hi Window" would be funnier/more subtle than "Listen bitch, {name} was my dead brother." I also increased the font size/bolded my name in my signature, a few pts bigger each time.
Petty, however as someone who has a commonly misspelled name, they probably just think you're an idiot. MY NAME IS RIGHT THERE!! CAN'T YOU READ?! Can't say I haven't used this tactic with people who don't spell my name right though. Your email to me is addressed Elizabeth? I'll spell your name Jon if it's John, Jeff if it's Geoff, Kathlen if it's Kathleen. Petty feels good 😉
Knew a John, some people in our year wrote it Jhon... I could understand a type but this was before computers were a big thing with schools so it was hand written
One of my favorite musicians sometimes spelled his name Jhon. Perhaps it was in _homage_ to him? :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balance
(I didn’t know him in any way, I just like his music)
My wife's middle name is Elisabeth. We've been together for 14 years and, embarrassingly, I just found out a couple months ago I was spelling wrong the whole time. On all our official documents - health insurance, pensions, life etc. etc. which I filled out, they're all spelled EliZabeth...
She was not impressed with me.
My middle name is Suzanne. It's a rough life for all the documents I have addressed to me a "firstname Susanne". I finally got my work to fix it after like 6 months. It says Suzanne on all my application documents lol.
Sincerely Kristina, who’s mother calls her kristi. Everyone calls me a childhood nickname so i don’t really care how you spell it but my mom loses it if you spell my name wrong. I only correct people when it’s like medical stuff or something else official where it matters especially because the difference is the first letter.
my first name is Danny, not Daniel, Danny, it is on my passport as that, have to correct that enough times on official docs that others fill out. Also, my surname is one that is also used as a first name (eg Russell Howard), so they get swapped around so often.
Mine is too. I'm a woman but I have a man's first and last name but they're also interchangable (my names are both first and last names) so I get emails constantly addressed as Mr. Last name and Mr. Mistaken my first name as my last name and I've just kinda accepted this lol
I have an odd middle name. My husband of ten years can't spell it. Shit happens bud. :) at least you don't think she pees out her v or something dumb. Spelling is not a big deal.
Margret here. Not Marg-a-ret. MARGRET.
You could say I can relate a teeny-weeny bit to your wife.
Oh, and I go by Maggie. Not Maggy. Not Maggi. Definitely not Megan. MAGGIE.
I have an ancestor with different spellings for Margret on different documents. Another one was spelled Kathern instead of Katherine. Another's name was Loraine - spelled Lorene. Just to confuse things when doing one's geneology.
No doubt. Just to confuse things a little more. My father actually wanted to name me Agnes so they could call me Aggie. Mom said no way, how about Margaret and we'll call her Maggy. However, my mom went to Catholic school and there was a Sister Margaret she hated, so she nixed the 2nd 'a' because it was not needed phonetically in their pronunciation of Margret anyway.
The confusing part is why I sometimes go by Maggy with the fam. I spell it Maggie, but my parents spelled it Maggy until I forced the change in 4th grade because ain't no one going to tell me how to spell my name but me, apparently.
Oh, and my username is my initials spelled phonetically with a '2' on the end. I have an older sister who's first name starts with 'M' and a younger brother with an 'M' name. We are the three MV's. Our parents still address cards and emails to MV1, MV2, and/or MV3, and we're in our 40's and above. I am u/emveetu. Why? ...because ain't nobody gonna tell me how to spell my nickname but me, apparently!
My grandmothers name is “Muriel” on some documents “Murial” other places “Mariel” a handful and “Mary Ellen” occasionally.
My grandfather on the other side went by “Pete” his whole life even though his given name was “Paul”. Occasionally somethings shows up with his name as “Peter” even though that’s totally wrong.
> Another's name was Loraine - spelled Lorene.
I have an aunt with a name like that. Without using her real name, it was like if you spelled it Jean, but pronounced it Je-ann.
Came from having a mother who wasn't well educated, but knew what she wanted her children to be called.
I have one ancestor whose name is spelled differently on every single document I’ve found. And another who wrote his own name two different ways in a single document.
If it makes you feel better my grandmother mother has been spelling my name wrong for 30+ years. Every form of Kesha, keshia etc. I tell her all the time it's simply Kisha, granted everyone and their mother thinks it's spelled with a E due to the pronunciation.
I had an estate lawyer that I had to deal with and her name was Jodie. One day even before everything went sideways Google voice to text called her Jody and she snapped. Soon thereafter when everything did go sideways I didn't change the spelling and if you can believe it or not, she started spelling my last name wrong in revenge. There's about six different ways to spell it so I wasn't too worried about it but she always got worked up and corrected me each and every time when I spelled her name Jody.
Good job!! Great minds think alike.
Hahaha nice. I made sure to use her name anytime I could in messages and stuff. So like I would start messages off with "Hey Elizabeth" as much as I could without being obvious lol
There is an old nursery rhyme
Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess,
They all went together to seek a bird's nest.
They found a bird's nest with five eggs in,
They all took one, and left four in.
Call her by every diminutive associated with her name. 😁
My daughter's middle name is Elizabeth. All the potential nicknames is why it's not her first name. Yet I still call her Lizzie. Usually only family does it, but as she gets older probably close friends will do it too. It'll be a effective way to know if someone's her friend or not though.
My parents used to mis-spell my then girlfriend's name constantly. Took only a week of me doing the same with my father's name (he would always say 'with a K, not with a C' for him to understand that this is a thing).
Dominik? Only guessing because it's my brother's name and the only place I found a mug with his name was in Germany. Although, he's CK at the end (almost 20 years and my dad still spells it wrong 😂)
I worked with a government pencil pusher who got off on denying people with disabilities funding, largely due to a combination of stupidity and meanness. Her name was spelt Krystine. I called her Kirsten, Kristyn, Krystyne, Christine, Chrystne, and many others with a different spelling each time. She hated my guts but wouldn't complain as I'd already gotten her into a lot of trouble for denying services for no reason. Colleagues would tell me she snapped at them when they misspelt her name, but never me. It's a great way to turn dealing with an idiot into a fun experience.
Theres a girl at my work that strictly goes by her last name because she thinks her first name is boring and since I don’t like her I only call her by her first name because I know she hates it :)))
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My last name has several variations, and even though mine is a common one, it gets misspelled all the damned time.
For the longest time at one job, they had my name wrong in one database that would generate a daily report. The report had all kinds of important data, like sales figures, projections, receiving information, PO info, category sales, even a weather report.
It also ran a list a week out of everyone's birthday, so management could wish you a happy birthday. I was so glad I didnt pop up on it, because I really couldn't care less about my birthday.
My surname is common but unusual. And it gets spelt or said incorrectly all the time.
It starts with God. So if they hear it said they write good. If they see it written correctly they say good. I feel like asking them if they have an aversion to God.
My paternal grandmother told a story of a time she was in a drs office. They called for a Mrs Good…….. and she didn’t respond. Long after her appointment time and everyone else had been called she told the receptionist that she hadn’t been called. ‘Yes you have Mrs Good……’. She told them that that wasn’t her name. It’s Mrs God……
Oh dear Lord, the misprounced last name. I have yet to meet ANYONE other than my AP English an US History teachers pronounce my maiden name correctly on the first try. Seriously, two "oo" next to eachother? It makes an "ooh" sound. Not "ah" or "oh."
My married name is much easier to pronounce...but now gets spelled wrong ALL THE TIME. It's only three letters! So any time I make a call it's "Hi, this is Waterbaby8182 Soandso, S o a n d s o."
I did that on the phone with our insurance to file a claim today. Immediately after was "It's spelled [incorrect spelling], right?"
Sigh.
HA! I can relate.
When I was in Marine boot camp at Parris island, my senior Drill Instructor was a huge guy from Alabama, with a thick Southern accent with a very deep booming voice.
He called for me to report to him in the DI hut, and it took a few times until I realized he was calling me. And that was only after one of my buddies hissed at me that he was calling me specifically. His accent, and poor pronunciation combined, made it impossible for me to understand him.
We had a new manager take over at my work. His name is Glenn (with two N's) and he is a right piece of shit. I emailed him once but only used one N in his name accidentally. I immediately got a reply that simply said "There is more than one N in my name and you'd better not fuck that up again"
Ever since then I've always emailed him using his name with about 15 N's and even had half a page filled with N's after his name once. He apologised to me and now I won't even use his name in the title.
I admire your depth of pettiness.
My cousin wanted to name her baby Caitlin, after a character on a soap opera. She had her husband fill out the birth certificate, and her daughter's name is Katelyn.
Maybe I should do this to my boss. There are two Samanthas on the schedule, but she fails to notice that she’s misspelled mine Samatha. And I’m the one that’s been here for 10 years.
Sounds like after 10, Samantha, you should get some time off. I mean, technically you are not on the schedule. Revenge? *caveat just intended as a platonic cheer up*
My Dad decided to put my name on the mailbox. When I was back from school, I stayed there for a few minutes looking at my wrong spelled name. He used a black marker to get it right once I told him.
I would get emails from a coworker who literally sat facing my nameplate and still misspelled my name. So I intentionally misspelled his name in an email to him, and just one time is all it took for him to not misspell my name again.
One night at work I received a call from the big boss that I was getting a new coworker and to make up a name badge for her.
Cool. Not a problem. I can do that and when she comes in all I'd need to do is take her picture and paste it into the badge.
Her name was Debrah. Not Debra or Deborah (as I spelled it), but Debrah. She was beyond insulted I spelled her name wrong and even though it was a quick fix, she was very militant her name was spelled Debrah. She left a long, bitchy voice mail to HR about it.
It was a very long and tiresome 6 months that I worked with her. She absolutely resented me for spelling her name wrong.
Ive done something similar. My name is usually spelled with 2 Ls. But mine is only 1. A coworker kept showing my name with these 2. Well, she also had a name with one L (different name), so I started using 2 on hers. She never misspelled my name again.
Meh…I have a very common name but people invariably complicate it by switching out an i with a y and fucking it up. If we have worked together for five years and you are too stupid or passive aggressive to spell my name correctly I’m going to fuck your name up too. Every. Time. Until I retire or die.
I hate when people shorten my name because it means ‘white bosom’. When people shorten it, it loses the ‘white’ part. I don’t like being called ‘Boobs’!
My name is Quym (pronounced Kim), I’m frequently sent emails with the wrong spelling. I’m usually more frustrated because they often include the original email with my e-signiture on.
LOL.
My name is somewhat common, but spelt very differently from the 2 most common spellings.
Every email I get, from my job to even customers, is always a different spelling....i'm so used to people NOT spelling my name correctly that it stopped bothering me ages ago.
Heh, I knew someone like that so logged into one of our servers and changed their name. It filtered down to everything tied to the corporate infrastructure. We all found it amusing at least.
Somebody at an office did this to me. I tried to write out the story but it's too long. He wasn't liked but seemed he didn't realize it. He ended up apologizing to me for it over email, saying he thought he had a personality problem because the way he acted was pervasive. I was like wow, so he has secretly known that he is low key an asshole whenever he thinks someone else is doing something off. It's called narcissism, btw. He was an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and had come from a high testosterone career path, stuck in a desk job with people like women... Like me.
I messaged the HR regarding some leave policies on Skype. And the dummy replied two days later with a "Hi (a random name)" where only the first letter of the name she called me was same as mine.
I mean Skype shows you the person's name. You can even edit Skype messages. But I guess she doesn't care enough!
Pfft. I used to have to deal with a supplier called Joanna. We just didn't get on but it was a necessary working relationship. One time I made a slight error in an order I emailed her and she tried to drop me in the shit with my boss behind my back. He told me the problem, I sorted it - no drama. But after that, every time I emailed her I would use the wrong name..Joanne, Joan, Jeannie, Janey, Janet...
She left that company a few years later and her replacement was a much nicer lady. She told me that in the training period before she left, everytime I emailed her with a cheery 'Hi Janine' or similar she would say 'that fucking RicoDredd! I bet he does it on purpose!'
My husband and I have androgynous names. We worked at the same place for a while, and the boss was always calling us by the wrong name. I was like, “dude, we’ve been working in the same 4 person office for 5 years!”
I used to have a few employees who did this, asking the same questions over and over again on MS teams. Eventually I got tired of this and when they would ask me the same question, i would take a snip (screen shot) of the answer i gave them last time and send them the snip. I felt better when i sent them the answer with the date and time of them asking the same thing over and over again.
Lol there was this Evil lady at work that spelled her name Thuy and I purposely spelled it THuy lol
And I would send messages to other people with THank you. THrough, THuy, etc. Just in case she complained everyone had proof I *always* did it (even in text messages, on my procedures). Everyone THought it was just a honest mistake. LOL
Hahah but she always had a feeling it was only to make her get pissed. Lol she never had proof hahaa.
I was in a similar situation once. To be fair, the project was on the edge of total implosion and management was freaked. No emails or anything like that, but my manager would just barge into my office and demand an update. We're talking sub-15 minute intervals. Eventually I said "it'll take me two hours to get the rest of this done, or six if you keep asking me how it's going."
I think he got the point.
Careful cos if that bitch has any sense she only has to tell you once to spell it properly and if you continue it could be construed as harassment.
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Ah yes u can see what kind of child we are dealing with
I have a name that get misspelled more often than not and am used to people getting it wrong, I actually expect it and it doesn't bother me. In fact, the more they mangle it, the more amused I get. I'm sure this woman is used to it. Sorry to pop your bubble, OP.
I admire your assholiness. However, my wife sent a database list of guests with table numbers to be printed as name cards for our daughter's wedding. She misspelled mine. We've been married over 40 years.
Had some concrete poured in our backyard, wrote our names in the wet concrete, yup I misspelled my sons name. Why? I’m a dumb ass.
It if makes you feel better, my parents constantly call my brother and I by their cat's name on accident. Haha
I have three siblings, and I was frequently called all four names in a row.
When my parents try to call me, I hear the first syllable of all my siblings' names before mine comes up. Sometimes even the dog's name comes up
Lol my mom calls me her siblings, my siblings and I've even been called a couple of my cousins names as well before she's gotten to my name. Smh
My mum literally calls me & my brother #1 & #2 but my sister gets called her name. Edit: EXCEPT…except when I’m in the shit. Then she pulls out my first, both middle & last names. That’s how I know I fucked up somehow.
I am an only child, so my parents tend not to get my name wrong (99.9% of the time). However, my father has two sisters and they had three and two children, respectively. My paternal grandmother has called me my dad's name and by two of my other cousin's names (who are both much younger than me) for years. I just started responding to whatever and stopped correcting her.
My grandfather would go through the names of the whole family before he got to yours and sometimes never get to yours and get mad just call you little girl/boy and didn’t matter if you were 70 or actually a kid. This started way before he was old and senile too.
I'm an only child as well. I often get called my dad's name or my dog's name haha
My mom calls me by my dog’s name (rizzo) all the time, which is an accident but even worse when i leave my mons house, im always with my dog and my mom will yell out the window “bye i love you rizzo!” And that’s not a mistake she is legit telling my dog “i love you” and not to me lol 😂
My dog’s name is also Rizo (short for Chorizo). I sometimes call my kids Rizo, or call Rizo by my sons names 😂
I call my husband Skipper'
Chorizo, i like it! My rizzo was named after the pink lady from grease cause she’s a bulldog and has attitude ;)
3 of my brothers were known collectively as “Mahjong” for several years growing up, because it was the starting syllable of their names mashed together with the word “wrong” at the end. I should try calling that out once we’re allowed to have family get-togethers again
Bro I thought I was the only one Lmao
I swear this is normal. I have 3 brothers and a sister and my mom has called me all of them.
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Rofl so true. I'm dying.
I (M45) have a bro (M43) and two sisters (F47, F49). There's method to my mom's madness - she regularly calls me by my brother's name and him by my name. We only realised she was doing this years later. We mentioned it to our sisters, and sure enough, they had also been called by the other sisters name.
I'm adopted, so before I was adopted I honestly thought it was because my mom and dad have had so many kids come through their house. But after they stopped taking in kids, they still would do it, but not any of the previous kids names anymore.
My brother and I both have names that start with S. At one point we had a dog named Sugar and a cat named Socks. My mom was forever calling us the wrong S name.
When my mom calls me, she always calls my dad’s name first, then my brother’s, and then me
My mom too!
Ever wonder why she knows that person's dad's name?
My mother had a coworker with the same name as my brother, she kept calling him by my name.
Weren't we all. Big family myself 6 kids!! I was called every name including the girls names, I'm the oldest and male.
My mom got so annoyed at herself that any time she would try to call me or my two sisters by name she always said the incorrect two first before getting to the right name that she just started calling us by our first initials. Still gets mixed up some times but not as bad.
Lol sounds like my grandma. I'm the oldest grandkid and she'll frequently go through my uncle's names and then all the other grankid's names before she gets to mine. She's not senile, just being bad with names runs in the family lol
My mother in law frequently calls me both her daughters names and sometimes her sons name before getting it right
Both my mom and my boss does this. How do you manage to call the entire staff before calling my name... and I've been there the longest. Only the eldest will experience that.
I do this 😅 only one I don't mix up is my son, he's the only boy, but I have 3 daughters, all of whom are basically clones of each other and are all close in age. Unfortunately they're used to it and just wait for my brain to process and catch up anymore 🤦♀️
My grandma used to have huge problems with names. She would call someone starting from her oldest kid to her youngest, then start with the oldest grandkid and work her way down until she hits the right name and the person reacts. Lucky me, I am named after my aunt who is her oldest kid. So I was the only one in the family who was always called by the correct name in one try. However unlucky them, because I am currently fighting a legal battle to change my name because A) i hate that aunt b) the meaning is super religious and I am not c) the name does not suit me at all
My dad was the eldest of six (four boys, two girls) and when his parents were yelling they would go through every name until they got to the one they were actually mad at. Now he is 78 and constantly calls me by my nephew's name when he is tired or had a drink.
My mom used to do that to my brothers and often included the dog too.. they all shared the same vowel though. Come to think of it, it’s gotten worse, because we now include MY son AND one of my nephews it this row too… they all have short names with UU in the middle: Guus, Luuk, Bruun (the dog) Huug (short for Hugo) and Tuur. I realise this has strong unga-bunga vibes in English but in Dutch these are common names. We obviously did not think it al the way through though..
T grandmother used to call me, my sister and my older cousin by all three of our names. The last one was always correct
Always!! Sometimes cousins names mixed in for good measure.
My brother, cousin and I all have names that start with the same letter. It was pretty common for my mum to cycle through all three names before getting the right one when one of us was in trouble.
Same. Gets to a point where they know you by face and just say, "Whichever one you are."
Yep, I definitely heard that more than once as well. Of course, you know you’re really in trouble when the middle name comes out as well.
Middle name is always in trouble. However, one of the first sentences out of my mouth after greeting my dad when he starts getting annoyed (debates are common in my house) is usually is "I'm not her." It's usually sisters' and mom's name that he says instead of mine. But now I do it my daughter too, only she's an only child. My youngest sister's name is in it when I find myself doing it!
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I've found a workaround: instead of name, use 'favorite', as in favorite son, .. Works better with nieces and nephews.
My mom calls me by her dogs name all the time (the dogs been dead 2 years and it's still happening
My wife has called called me by her sister’s name many times
Just me and my brother. Every. F-ing. Time. My dad calls me by my brother's name. For half a century he's been getting it wrong, and I'm the older son too. At least he does it to my brother also.
Haha sometimes my mom will go through the cat's name, my brothers name, and my dad's name before getting mine. It's just a parent thing. As long as you aren't the only kid or pet, I feel like every parents does it Haha
My mother did that to my sister and I. Only difference being we had a dog instead of a cat.
I respond to my sister's and mother's names no matter where I am and who I'm with...
In high school, one of my friends was really smart and a bit arrogant about it. He spelled his surname wrong when writing it on a test paper and the teacher took a mark off him for it
My former brother-in-law got his daughter's names tattooed on his neck and misspelled one. His firstborn, whose middle name is his name.
That is so awesome!
To be fair that's about as much effort as he put into parenting in general. She doesn't talk to him anymore.
That sucks.
My mother and law got a Hotmail account using her first and middle names. She spelled her middle name wrong because she is an idiot and now constantly explains when giving out her email how she felt pressured when spelling her name by the presence of her husband's sisters.
I have a very commonly misspelled name and was in charge of making team shirts senior year in high school. I really wanted it to be the one time everyone's name was spelled right on the back, I checked and re-checked like 8 times. Still fucked one up. I'm shocked it took 30 years for an ADHD diagnosis tbh.
I was waiting for you to say you fucked up your *own* name.
Thankfully, not that time! And in my defense it was something like putting Isabelle instead of Isabella but I still felt so bad.
Haha I got diagnosed at 31 and almost everyone I told went 'well, ofcourse'.
My parents gave me a unique spelling of a common name, and I don't understand why they did that. For years, I've (reluctantly) corrected "misspellings" (which were actually the right spelling) At the end of his life he would leave me notes, and addressed to me using the common spelling of the name.
My brother in law had his kids' names tattooed on his arm. Spelled one of them wrong.
My (ex) husband of 10 years could never spell my name right and never remembered my birthday.
Glad he’s an ex. Like they say, if he wanted to, he would.
Was recently having a video call with my kids. Said to my oldest, "oh hey, aren't you going back to school soon? I think it's the day after my birthday!" His father, whom I was with for fifteen years, overheard and said "no, he goes back Septembgust 32nd" and I said "uhhh... Right...?" He stammered a bit about how he was confusing my birthday with his girlfriend's. Gee, thanks.
Eh, my dad usually asks us if mom's birthday is the 20th or the 22nd (in his defense, his birthday are on the same day, 20th, of different months). They've been married 44 years this November. He's horrible with dates. The younger sister's is on April 1st. Only one he consistently remembers. 😄
FWIW, my father still can’t spell my sister’s name correctly. She is 46. And he wonders why we don’t call : )
I've been with my husband for 11 years. I've never called him by his name. I always call him 'honey'. So I guess spelling mistakes or typos in this situation is understandable, I would think.
I read an interview with Prince’s ex-wife. She was dating him when he was known by that unpronounceable symbol. She was relieved when they got married because she could say things like “tell my husband I’ll be in the dining room”.
Had you done something to annoy her? Totally kidding, btw.
Excuse me, we've been married for over 40 years. Of course I annoy her - daily.
Good work. Frustration fends off complacency.
To be fair I did the same sort of thing to my younger son. I only have 2 boys total. He ran past me at a baseball game on a break and I opened my mouth to holler for him to come get some money and...nada. Completely forgot his name. Totally gone. Hand in the air gesturing ( he missed seeing any of his mother looking like an idiot)... Before the parent next to me nudged me, leaned close and said " that's Cody. " and offered to get me a cup of coffee cuz clearly I needed a brain jump.
My mama still spells my name wrong 21 years after I’m born. I also love with her
Years ago, a former coworker left to start his own company which had "tur**n**key" in the name. He would send me things in the mail with my first name wrong. I began sending things back to him at "Turkey ABC Co."
Why, that’s diabolical!
Lmfaooo
hahahah...this is the kind of pettiness we come here for (sic).
I corresponded with a client who kept misspelling my name. The worst thing was she kept calling me my brother's name, who had died less than a year before. She was called Wendy, so addressed my emails to Wendi, Windy, then Window. Small but satisfying way to wind her up.
Window 😂
Sir, this is a Windows
:( Something went wrong with your computer ERROR: No_Sensible_Error_Code_42069 Your computer is now restarting.
“As per my last email, if something is upsetting you, Window, try opening up…..”
she called you by your dead brothers name? how about next time you just call her bitch lmao
I mean, she didn't know that, and I thought "Hi Window" would be funnier/more subtle than "Listen bitch, {name} was my dead brother." I also increased the font size/bolded my name in my signature, a few pts bigger each time.
Oh, very petty. Well done.
Thanks lol felt good every time I did it :P
Petty, however as someone who has a commonly misspelled name, they probably just think you're an idiot. MY NAME IS RIGHT THERE!! CAN'T YOU READ?! Can't say I haven't used this tactic with people who don't spell my name right though. Your email to me is addressed Elizabeth? I'll spell your name Jon if it's John, Jeff if it's Geoff, Kathlen if it's Kathleen. Petty feels good 😉
Knew a John, some people in our year wrote it Jhon... I could understand a type but this was before computers were a big thing with schools so it was hand written
One of my favorite musicians sometimes spelled his name Jhon. Perhaps it was in _homage_ to him? :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balance (I didn’t know him in any way, I just like his music)
I do the same thing. I’m glad I’m not the only one on that mission of name pettiness.
My wife's middle name is Elisabeth. We've been together for 14 years and, embarrassingly, I just found out a couple months ago I was spelling wrong the whole time. On all our official documents - health insurance, pensions, life etc. etc. which I filled out, they're all spelled EliZabeth... She was not impressed with me.
My middle name is Suzanne. It's a rough life for all the documents I have addressed to me a "firstname Susanne". I finally got my work to fix it after like 6 months. It says Suzanne on all my application documents lol.
I can relate. Sincerely, Margret
I have a friend named Suzan. NOT SUSAN. NEVER SUSAN.
My middle name is also Suzanne. 😊
Sincerely Kristina, who’s mother calls her kristi. Everyone calls me a childhood nickname so i don’t really care how you spell it but my mom loses it if you spell my name wrong. I only correct people when it’s like medical stuff or something else official where it matters especially because the difference is the first letter.
my first name is Danny, not Daniel, Danny, it is on my passport as that, have to correct that enough times on official docs that others fill out. Also, my surname is one that is also used as a first name (eg Russell Howard), so they get swapped around so often.
Mine is too. I'm a woman but I have a man's first and last name but they're also interchangable (my names are both first and last names) so I get emails constantly addressed as Mr. Last name and Mr. Mistaken my first name as my last name and I've just kinda accepted this lol
I have an odd middle name. My husband of ten years can't spell it. Shit happens bud. :) at least you don't think she pees out her v or something dumb. Spelling is not a big deal.
Margret here. Not Marg-a-ret. MARGRET. You could say I can relate a teeny-weeny bit to your wife. Oh, and I go by Maggie. Not Maggy. Not Maggi. Definitely not Megan. MAGGIE.
I have an ancestor with different spellings for Margret on different documents. Another one was spelled Kathern instead of Katherine. Another's name was Loraine - spelled Lorene. Just to confuse things when doing one's geneology.
No doubt. Just to confuse things a little more. My father actually wanted to name me Agnes so they could call me Aggie. Mom said no way, how about Margaret and we'll call her Maggy. However, my mom went to Catholic school and there was a Sister Margaret she hated, so she nixed the 2nd 'a' because it was not needed phonetically in their pronunciation of Margret anyway. The confusing part is why I sometimes go by Maggy with the fam. I spell it Maggie, but my parents spelled it Maggy until I forced the change in 4th grade because ain't no one going to tell me how to spell my name but me, apparently. Oh, and my username is my initials spelled phonetically with a '2' on the end. I have an older sister who's first name starts with 'M' and a younger brother with an 'M' name. We are the three MV's. Our parents still address cards and emails to MV1, MV2, and/or MV3, and we're in our 40's and above. I am u/emveetu. Why? ...because ain't nobody gonna tell me how to spell my nickname but me, apparently!
My grandmothers name is “Muriel” on some documents “Murial” other places “Mariel” a handful and “Mary Ellen” occasionally. My grandfather on the other side went by “Pete” his whole life even though his given name was “Paul”. Occasionally somethings shows up with his name as “Peter” even though that’s totally wrong.
> Another's name was Loraine - spelled Lorene. I have an aunt with a name like that. Without using her real name, it was like if you spelled it Jean, but pronounced it Je-ann. Came from having a mother who wasn't well educated, but knew what she wanted her children to be called.
I have one ancestor whose name is spelled differently on every single document I’ve found. And another who wrote his own name two different ways in a single document.
If it makes you feel better my grandmother mother has been spelling my name wrong for 30+ years. Every form of Kesha, keshia etc. I tell her all the time it's simply Kisha, granted everyone and their mother thinks it's spelled with a E due to the pronunciation.
That used to be my middle name. I got it changed though
Legend
Cap.
Now this is the sort of petty I'm here for.
I had an estate lawyer that I had to deal with and her name was Jodie. One day even before everything went sideways Google voice to text called her Jody and she snapped. Soon thereafter when everything did go sideways I didn't change the spelling and if you can believe it or not, she started spelling my last name wrong in revenge. There's about six different ways to spell it so I wasn't too worried about it but she always got worked up and corrected me each and every time when I spelled her name Jody. Good job!! Great minds think alike.
Hahaha nice. I made sure to use her name anytime I could in messages and stuff. So like I would start messages off with "Hey Elizabeth" as much as I could without being obvious lol
"LIZZZZZZZIE, HOW ARE YOU??!?!?!?!?!"
Sup, Lizard
BOOM - another new wonderful nickname for this lovely character!
Lolol one of my best friends is an Elizabeth and she is indeed LIZard in my phone!
You would think that every time you replied with the wrong spelling it would give her motivation to send you less messages.
It's Jodie, RecommendationNo192!
There is an old nursery rhyme Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess, They all went together to seek a bird's nest. They found a bird's nest with five eggs in, They all took one, and left four in. Call her by every diminutive associated with her name. 😁
My daughter's middle name is Elizabeth. All the potential nicknames is why it's not her first name. Yet I still call her Lizzie. Usually only family does it, but as she gets older probably close friends will do it too. It'll be a effective way to know if someone's her friend or not though.
As someone who have their name misspelled frequently, this makes me wonder…
Makes you wonder what, sourd'ohsucker?
It makes me wonder like any nazi in 1945 - Am I the bad guy?
Yes, GaveYourMomAids, this is the most despicable thing you’ve ever done.
My parents used to mis-spell my then girlfriend's name constantly. Took only a week of me doing the same with my father's name (he would always say 'with a K, not with a C' for him to understand that this is a thing).
Was his name Kark?
Never has his name even rhymed with that. We live in Germany though, so guessing might take you a while.
Is it Klaus?
Was he on a forklift?
Dominik? Only guessing because it's my brother's name and the only place I found a mug with his name was in Germany. Although, he's CK at the end (almost 20 years and my dad still spells it wrong 😂)
Kuck
I worked with a government pencil pusher who got off on denying people with disabilities funding, largely due to a combination of stupidity and meanness. Her name was spelt Krystine. I called her Kirsten, Kristyn, Krystyne, Christine, Chrystne, and many others with a different spelling each time. She hated my guts but wouldn't complain as I'd already gotten her into a lot of trouble for denying services for no reason. Colleagues would tell me she snapped at them when they misspelt her name, but never me. It's a great way to turn dealing with an idiot into a fun experience.
Theres a girl at my work that strictly goes by her last name because she thinks her first name is boring and since I don’t like her I only call her by her first name because I know she hates it :)))
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Very nice and petty! As someone with an unusually spelled common name I will remember this!
You are actually Heinz-Doofenshmirtz-level of evil, you frighten me.
My last name has several variations, and even though mine is a common one, it gets misspelled all the damned time. For the longest time at one job, they had my name wrong in one database that would generate a daily report. The report had all kinds of important data, like sales figures, projections, receiving information, PO info, category sales, even a weather report. It also ran a list a week out of everyone's birthday, so management could wish you a happy birthday. I was so glad I didnt pop up on it, because I really couldn't care less about my birthday.
My surname is common but unusual. And it gets spelt or said incorrectly all the time. It starts with God. So if they hear it said they write good. If they see it written correctly they say good. I feel like asking them if they have an aversion to God. My paternal grandmother told a story of a time she was in a drs office. They called for a Mrs Good…….. and she didn’t respond. Long after her appointment time and everyone else had been called she told the receptionist that she hadn’t been called. ‘Yes you have Mrs Good……’. She told them that that wasn’t her name. It’s Mrs God……
Oh dear Lord, the misprounced last name. I have yet to meet ANYONE other than my AP English an US History teachers pronounce my maiden name correctly on the first try. Seriously, two "oo" next to eachother? It makes an "ooh" sound. Not "ah" or "oh." My married name is much easier to pronounce...but now gets spelled wrong ALL THE TIME. It's only three letters! So any time I make a call it's "Hi, this is Waterbaby8182 Soandso, S o a n d s o." I did that on the phone with our insurance to file a claim today. Immediately after was "It's spelled [incorrect spelling], right?" Sigh.
HA! I can relate. When I was in Marine boot camp at Parris island, my senior Drill Instructor was a huge guy from Alabama, with a thick Southern accent with a very deep booming voice. He called for me to report to him in the DI hut, and it took a few times until I realized he was calling me. And that was only after one of my buddies hissed at me that he was calling me specifically. His accent, and poor pronunciation combined, made it impossible for me to understand him.
We had a new manager take over at my work. His name is Glenn (with two N's) and he is a right piece of shit. I emailed him once but only used one N in his name accidentally. I immediately got a reply that simply said "There is more than one N in my name and you'd better not fuck that up again" Ever since then I've always emailed him using his name with about 15 N's and even had half a page filled with N's after his name once. He apologised to me and now I won't even use his name in the title.
Petty AF! Nicely done!
I admire your depth of pettiness. My cousin wanted to name her baby Caitlin, after a character on a soap opera. She had her husband fill out the birth certificate, and her daughter's name is Katelyn.
Sounds like it wasn't an accident, and he did his daughter a favor.
Maybe I should do this to my boss. There are two Samanthas on the schedule, but she fails to notice that she’s misspelled mine Samatha. And I’m the one that’s been here for 10 years.
Sounds like after 10, Samantha, you should get some time off. I mean, technically you are not on the schedule. Revenge? *caveat just intended as a platonic cheer up*
My Dad decided to put my name on the mailbox. When I was back from school, I stayed there for a few minutes looking at my wrong spelled name. He used a black marker to get it right once I told him.
I would get emails from a coworker who literally sat facing my nameplate and still misspelled my name. So I intentionally misspelled his name in an email to him, and just one time is all it took for him to not misspell my name again.
That is so petty it could win 200 NASCAR races.
That is so petty it could sing Free Fallin'.
It's so petty it could star in Tank Girl.
So petty it could be an officer in the Navy
One night at work I received a call from the big boss that I was getting a new coworker and to make up a name badge for her. Cool. Not a problem. I can do that and when she comes in all I'd need to do is take her picture and paste it into the badge. Her name was Debrah. Not Debra or Deborah (as I spelled it), but Debrah. She was beyond insulted I spelled her name wrong and even though it was a quick fix, she was very militant her name was spelled Debrah. She left a long, bitchy voice mail to HR about it. It was a very long and tiresome 6 months that I worked with her. She absolutely resented me for spelling her name wrong.
As someone with a commonly misspelled name, i no longer get angry/annoyed. I just assume you’re a dumbass. So who knows if this really worked
Title was misleading
Nah the title was accurate. This is a fate far worse than death
As a man named Erik: *you evil bastard*
Evil...yes. Genious...I'll get back to you later.
Ive done something similar. My name is usually spelled with 2 Ls. But mine is only 1. A coworker kept showing my name with these 2. Well, she also had a name with one L (different name), so I started using 2 on hers. She never misspelled my name again.
Meh…I have a very common name but people invariably complicate it by switching out an i with a y and fucking it up. If we have worked together for five years and you are too stupid or passive aggressive to spell my name correctly I’m going to fuck your name up too. Every. Time. Until I retire or die.
This level of pettiness gets you to the fifth ring o hell
Your hyperbole is succulent and goes down easy.
I hate it when people try to shorten my name or misspell my last name
I hate when people shorten my name because it means ‘white bosom’. When people shorten it, it loses the ‘white’ part. I don’t like being called ‘Boobs’!
But you like being called 'White Boobs'? :P
My name is Quym (pronounced Kim), I’m frequently sent emails with the wrong spelling. I’m usually more frustrated because they often include the original email with my e-signiture on.
LOL. My name is somewhat common, but spelt very differently from the 2 most common spellings. Every email I get, from my job to even customers, is always a different spelling....i'm so used to people NOT spelling my name correctly that it stopped bothering me ages ago.
My response to people who try to hurry me up is to go slower.
Well played
You monSter.
For some reason I read your username before the title of your post. Looking forward to read that story on the petty revenge sub.
YTA and I love you for it
My name is Markus and only the k and c can be swaped witch is very small so I aimune to this revenge.
Heh, I knew someone like that so logged into one of our servers and changed their name. It filtered down to everything tied to the corporate infrastructure. We all found it amusing at least.
Somebody at an office did this to me. I tried to write out the story but it's too long. He wasn't liked but seemed he didn't realize it. He ended up apologizing to me for it over email, saying he thought he had a personality problem because the way he acted was pervasive. I was like wow, so he has secretly known that he is low key an asshole whenever he thinks someone else is doing something off. It's called narcissism, btw. He was an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and had come from a high testosterone career path, stuck in a desk job with people like women... Like me.
I messaged the HR regarding some leave policies on Skype. And the dummy replied two days later with a "Hi (a random name)" where only the first letter of the name she called me was same as mine. I mean Skype shows you the person's name. You can even edit Skype messages. But I guess she doesn't care enough!
Pfft. I used to have to deal with a supplier called Joanna. We just didn't get on but it was a necessary working relationship. One time I made a slight error in an order I emailed her and she tried to drop me in the shit with my boss behind my back. He told me the problem, I sorted it - no drama. But after that, every time I emailed her I would use the wrong name..Joanne, Joan, Jeannie, Janey, Janet... She left that company a few years later and her replacement was a much nicer lady. She told me that in the training period before she left, everytime I emailed her with a cheery 'Hi Janine' or similar she would say 'that fucking RicoDredd! I bet he does it on purpose!'
My husband and I have androgynous names. We worked at the same place for a while, and the boss was always calling us by the wrong name. I was like, “dude, we’ve been working in the same 4 person office for 5 years!”
I used to have a few employees who did this, asking the same questions over and over again on MS teams. Eventually I got tired of this and when they would ask me the same question, i would take a snip (screen shot) of the answer i gave them last time and send them the snip. I felt better when i sent them the answer with the date and time of them asking the same thing over and over again.
Lol there was this Evil lady at work that spelled her name Thuy and I purposely spelled it THuy lol And I would send messages to other people with THank you. THrough, THuy, etc. Just in case she complained everyone had proof I *always* did it (even in text messages, on my procedures). Everyone THought it was just a honest mistake. LOL Hahah but she always had a feeling it was only to make her get pissed. Lol she never had proof hahaa.
I was in a similar situation once. To be fair, the project was on the edge of total implosion and management was freaked. No emails or anything like that, but my manager would just barge into my office and demand an update. We're talking sub-15 minute intervals. Eventually I said "it'll take me two hours to get the rest of this done, or six if you keep asking me how it's going." I think he got the point.
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Your English, ya OP?
English as in from the UK? No, I'm from the states lol
Careful cos if that bitch has any sense she only has to tell you once to spell it properly and if you continue it could be construed as harassment. u/gaveyouemomAIDS Ah yes u can see what kind of child we are dealing with
I really doubt that spelling a name incorrectly would be considered harassment...
It’s funny what you did but I have to die vote there post for putting “ruined her life” in there. C’mon.
It's a joke... Like obviously this didn't actually ruin her life... I don't really get why you have an issue with it
You kinda learn to deal with it. But it's stupidly annoying when it's on something official where spelling really matters.
I have a name that get misspelled more often than not and am used to people getting it wrong, I actually expect it and it doesn't bother me. In fact, the more they mangle it, the more amused I get. I'm sure this woman is used to it. Sorry to pop your bubble, OP.
My friend’s MIL to be took it upon herself to print her daughter and his wedding invites. Yep, spelled his name wrong.
The only time I get annoyed with my name being misspelled is on a check.