OT: Top 10 Mispellings of "subscribe"

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 12:40 pm

If I had a dime for every moron who insists on spelling my name "rebbeca"....

aderyn_du · Post by **aderyn_du** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 1:22 pm

For a minute, I couldn't sign on to the board and almost had a panic attack thinking the servers had gone down again... whew! ::wiping brow::

I've also had lots of variations on my name pronunciation, the worst being an intentional one from a grade-school boy. But we won't go there again.

In case anyone wanted to know, my name is pronounced more like On-dray-uh; I'll answer to An-dree-uh, but will ignore you if you pronounce it An-dray-uh.

My hubby's irritation is when people insist on spelling his name Micheal, when it's Michael.

Okay, well that was more than anyone wanted to know, I'm sure...

Andrea ~*~

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 1:26 pm

On 2002-12-11 13:40, TelegramSam wrote:
If I had a dime for every moron who insists on spelling my name "rebbeca"....

Geez, and I thot yer name was Sam!

Zubivka · Post by **Zubivka** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 1:39 pm

On 2002-12-11 14:26, The Weekenders wrote:
Geez, and I thot yer name was Sam!

Right. Now you see the problem ?

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 2:00 pm

On 2002-12-11 09:09, jim_mc wrote:
I, for one, have been waiting with baited breathe for the retrun of the speling cop.

I was around and I was maliciously accused of being said Spelling Cop after someone noted that my spelling was impeccible. Talk about circumstantial evidence.) I used to proofread after typing a post. Now, I don't have time for that.
Tony
edited to proffread. just kiding.
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Zubivka · Post by **Zubivka** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 6:10 pm

On 2002-12-11 12:55, amar wrote:
I know someone by that name too, the name's from Finnland, right?

Kerry Bodhran ? Gotta be Eirin-Ougric roots...

BTW, Cees. You say your nickname derived from Seesee, so from now I'll know better. I used to mentally pronounce your name as Kééss. Cees is a common enough Dutch and Flamish name... I guess it's a diminutive for a Christian name, but dunno which.

Cees · Post by **Cees** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 8:19 pm

Yes, Zub, I can see where the nickname gets mispronounced. I probably should've started spelling it "Sees" way back when, but I liked the look of "Cees" better.

mvhplank · Post by **mvhplank** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 8:46 pm

Ah, Cees--I kind of envy you. You'd think with a moniker like mine I'd end up with a workable nickname but nothing seems to have stuck. Well, "Maggie" worked for some people for a while, but I never liked it and these "friends" were very manipulative. It wasn't just my name they were trying to change.

Anyway, "Marguerite" came to me third-hand. We called my maternal grandmother Marguerite by the nickname "Rita" while my mother Marguerite was always called "Peggy." The full-blown version stuck with me and now that I'm "of a certain age," I think I may be stuck with it.

But sometimes people just call me "Em." I can live with it.

M

Mack.Hoover · Post by **Mack.Hoover** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 9:45 pm

Mac is usually short for something. Mc is usually the start of something.
My name is Mack--short for nothing, so the dendency is to lengthen it or to make it plural (as in Max). I stopped Jack from calling me that! I also stopped Phill from calling me macadamian, by making a nut out of his name. Several have asked me for my first name, Mr. McKoover. So as you can see, I am no longer sensitive about what insensitive folks want to call me.

rebl_rn · Post by **rebl_rn** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 10:19 pm

My last name is Walsh, which I think is pretty basic as well as fairly common. In fact there are several Beth Walshes in the rural area where I live (another one besides me goes to the same vet and has a cat with a similar name as mine, and they always pull the wrong chart whenever I am there, but I digress). Anyway, it always surprises me the inventive ways people come up with to spell Walsh. Most common is Welsh, which is pretty close and the origin of the name, but I also have seen
Welch
Walshe
Walsch
Walsche
Walstch
Waltsch

(I haven't gotten Waltz yet, but I have a feeling that may be next).

Beth

Zubivka · Post by **Zubivka** » Thu Dec 12, 2002 3:06 am

On 2002-12-11 21:46, mvhplank wrote:
Ah, Cees--I kind of envy you. You'd think with a moniker like mine I'd end up with a workable nickname but nothing seems to have stuck.

What about shortening it to just Plank, Maxie ?

mvhplank · Post by **mvhplank** » Thu Dec 12, 2002 6:40 am

On 2002-12-12 04:06, Zubivka wrote:
On 2002-12-11 21:46, mvhplank wrote:
Ah, Cees--I kind of envy you. You'd think with a moniker like mine I'd end up with a workable nickname but nothing seems to have stuck.
What about shortening it to just Plank, Maxie ?

Well, "Plank" isn't the name I was born with but easier on the whole than my maiden name of Haralson. (No one ever got that one right.)

I'll take "Planxty," though

M

chas · Post by **chas** » Thu Dec 12, 2002 7:11 am

Cees, I have two sisters who still go by names I called them when I was little. The more interesting is Chree (I pronounced Christine as Chree-Chree).

Planxty, I have a neice Margarite (named after my grandmother Marguerite, go figger) who goes by Maggie. I had a friend named Marguerite in college who went by Mike, which I thought was a really cool and creative nickname, but couldn't convince my bro and SiL to call my neice that.

serpent · Post by **serpent** » Thu Dec 12, 2002 7:20 am

mvh, how about "Margie"?

Still, I'd think you'd want to either lay or vocally deny claim to that "Maggie" made famous by one Rod Stewart...

Just a thought. Nobody misspells or mispronounces "serpent". Nobody dares...

serpink

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Thu Dec 12, 2002 7:44 am

Well Mr Serpant, since it's a dare...