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Gabu

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Posted on 06-18-10 02:16:41 AM Link | Quote
People love to butcher my last name. It's not Deering, or Derrink.

Here's a hint: It rhymes with boring, and pretend that e is another o. Or learn how to listen to a certain ethnicity in surnames once in a while and change pronunciations accordingly.

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Posted on 06-18-10 02:36:07 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Gabu
People love to butcher my last name. It's not Deering, or Derrink.

Here's a hint: It rhymes with boring, and pretend that e is another o. Or learn how to listen to a certain ethnicity in surnames once in a while and change pronunciations accordingly.


I thought it was pronounced "Daring", myself. Although if it's German, the oe is the non-English sound [ø] really.

My last name is Burke, the guy said Brook but corrected himself. Since u and o look similar in my handwriting, I'm waiting for someone to misread it as Borke, like I'm Ye Olde Swedishe Chefe or someone

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Posted on 06-18-10 03:48:04 AM Link | Quote
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Nothing but the occasional pualguy, but that's because they're either idiots or made a typo (but more often than not they're an idiot because they spell it wrong every time.).

As for my real name, Paul is pretty common so most people with a couple brain cells to rub together spell it fine and It's never been pronounced wrong. My last name is a bit more difficult, though, and people often spell that one wrong or say it wrong, and ask me to spell it every time even though it's spelled the way it's pronounced. Maybe I don't speak clearly enough...

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Posted on 06-18-10 07:24:54 AM Link | Quote
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Always, because few people know how to pronounce the letter x.

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Posted on 06-18-10 08:05:00 AM Link | Quote
Me-me is not hard to pronounce. Sometimes someone spells it meme but... meh.
In the beginning I always thought of it being short e's.

My real name is quite usual so it's never mispronounced. My last name is, but I can live with it.
It's only a pain when I buy something important and the last name have to be right.

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Posted on 06-18-10 04:06:35 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by paulguy
As for my real name, Paul is pretty common so most people with a couple brain cells to rub together spell it fine and It's never been pronounced wrong.


Just don't go to Germany, where Paul rhymes with howl

Originally posted by Xkeeper
SOme like to think that my name is spelt using TWo CApital LEtters (or drop the X thinking it is just padding, which it is not).


I know the former happens a lot, but I wasn't aware that people dropped the X entirely

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Posted on 06-19-10 03:48:29 AM Link | Quote
My first name is pretty common, and people spell it wrong only occasionally (s instead of z, but it really doesn't matter). As for my last name, I am surprised if someone gets it right the first time. I normally congratulate the successful people, too.

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Posted on 06-19-10 03:53:40 AM Link | Quote
I discovered recently that a friend apparently thought my name was "Theron", like Charlize Theron, for months now. Then, when I spelled it out a few people were confused, like "There's a Y?"

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Posted on 06-19-10 04:00:50 AM Link | Quote
My last name is "Alwardt" which is commonly mispronounced and mispelled. One time I got a certificate with "Award" instead of "Alwardt" because that's what MS Word's spellcheck suggests.

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Posted on 06-19-10 04:04:57 AM Link | Quote
Was it an award? "We present this award to Award!".

Yeah, some names are challenging. I once knew someone with the nice short last name of "Ary", then got married and decided to adopt her husband's really long Polish name that people couldn't pronounce or spell. It was even put on a spelling test, I think as an extra credit word.

Mine has a few possible spellings such as "Berk", so I usually spell it out if it's important.

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Posted on 06-19-10 04:06:50 AM (last edited by Boing at 06-19-10 01:07 AM) Link | Quote
Yeah. It was presented to Alexander Award.

My girlfriend's last name is "Okerhjelm" and it is VERY commonly mispronounced and spelled. It in itself is even a bastardization of the original name. (Which I don't know off the top of my head... but I believe it starts with "Ao")

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Posted on 06-19-10 12:49:03 PM (last edited by Rick at 06-19-10 09:49 AM) Link | Quote
Anyone who ever screwed up my name is already dead. =)

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Posted on 06-19-10 01:16:41 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Rick
Anyone who ever screwed up my name is already dead. =)


I better watch out for you then, Rikc?

Ops

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Posted on 06-19-10 05:06:09 PM Link | Quote
The letters a, s and d are right next to each other on the keyboard. Therefore, misspellings are almost predetermined to occur.

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Posted on 06-20-10 09:44:27 AM Link | Quote
Noone stuffs up my name, but my poor friend Gian...
He's been called Jiyon, Jiyan, Guyane, John(?), Gan and Jen.
I know it's not a common name, but geez.
Take note, 'tis pronounced 'Yä-n'.

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Posted on 06-20-10 05:21:05 PM Link | Quote
Just about everybody here screws up my username in some way (not that I mind in the slightest: It adds to the humor) and a LOT of people in real life call me Jeremy which is NOT my name.

They also leave the "h" out of Jeremiah. Meh.

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Posted on 06-20-10 09:25:12 PM Link | Quote
It's a given because you have a long username, Ork Warboss of Crabbydeff.

If someone has a difficult name I just copy and paste like I did above

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Posted on 06-20-10 09:29:25 PM Link | Quote
I often just call him "Nelrith" or "Ork", although I still miss the name "Demon King of Crabmeat"...

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Posted on 06-20-10 09:32:47 PM Link | Quote
He was the Demon King of Crabmeat? It was a cool name nontheless.

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Posted on 06-20-10 10:45:33 PM (last edited by Reimu at 06-20-10 07:47 PM) Link | Quote
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I just call him Crabbyboss due to not even remembering his other usernames, let alone the current one...

My usernames are difficult to mispell, considering they are... 5 and 6 letters. If anything you guys would've trouble with the soft r and sylables but eh, same deal as Hiryuu.

As for my given name, I don't like it anyways so I don't care. Though they tend to either accentuate it wrong or just merge it with the surname and make up random shit.

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