My name is Tim, but call me Tom

[dudleybloke]

red_slr said:

Axionknight said:

DAVE?

[Monkeylegend]

My sons name is Tom and everybody calls him Tom.

[CR6ZZ]

I have a friend named Bill, but everyone calls him Harry. Go figure...

[Chlamydia]

DrDeAtH said:

DrDoofenshmirtz said:

I can completely understand people being unable to pronounce a name...I mean my wife is Irish and called Siobhán FFS (Still not quite sure how you get 'shi-vawn' from that, but anyway)

The Gaelic pronunciation of bh results in a v sound... The â will give an aw sound

Thus... Sio (sho) bh(v) ân (awn)


Rock on Tommy.....

Or you could just spell it like someone I know of did: Shervawn. I st you not.

[jas xjr]

Chlamydia said:

DrDeAtH said:

DrDoofenshmirtz said:

I can completely understand people being unable to pronounce a name...I mean my wife is Irish and called Siobhán FFS (Still not quite sure how you get 'shi-vawn' from that, but anyway)

The Gaelic pronunciation of bh results in a v sound... The â will give an aw sound

Thus... Sio (sho) bh(v) ân (awn)


Rock on Tommy.....

Or you could just spell it like someone I know of did: Shervawn. I st you not.

I work with a young lady called emerly

[whoami]

DrDoofenshmirtz said:

My name is Tim.

No one is perfect.

[jjones]

Use your real name Timothy and then people will not confuse it with Tom.

[spud989]

Unless they go for Tomothy. Which would doubtless be more annoying.

[Deadlift]

Both are ridiculous names, it's a lose lose situation Tony.

[dudleybloke]

Is that you John?

[daqinggegg]

Christened Greg, everyone added ory, so l later added a ‘g’ Gregg, that killed off that little ruse.

[iambeowulf]

[JimbobVFR]

I share some of your pain. I'm Jamie, I was christened Jamie and all my official documents all say Jamie. And yet some people call me James, I fking hate being called James. Jim is almost acceptable as the short version of JimBob ,the nickname I've had since school, but I refuse to answer to James.

[Timmy40]

Are you Tim the Enchanter?

If so I have a rabbit problem I need some help with.

Edited by Timmy40 on Monday 27th July 10:06

[PositronicRay]

And if it's a boy they'll name him Rodney, after Dave.

[UnluckyTimmeh]

DrDoofenshmirtz said:

My name is Tim.
But all my life, people have mistakenly, on occasion, called me Tom. Not once or twice, at least once a fortnight someone will call me Tom.
It's usually people who I've met before but they probably can't quite remember my name, so they call me Tom.

I can completely understand people being unable to pronounce a name...I mean my wife is Irish and called Siobhán FFS (Still not quite sure how you get 'shi-vawn' from that, but anyway) - Tim? Obviously anyone can pronounce that, it's just they seem to confuse it with Tom.

Any other Tims share my life long hate of all Toms?

Haha.


I have this exact same problem so I feel your pain. I wear a name badge at work and my colleagues even introduce me as Tim, but at some point they will call me Tom.

My favourite is one of my friends late mother used to get me confused with another friend called Tom. We look totally different, but she could never remember if I was the Tim or
Just another Tom, so to her I became Tim-Tom. I even had Christmas cards, birthday cards and invitations addressed Tim-Tom.

[DickyC]

Apparently, I look like a Bob.

[HRL]

jas xjr said:

I work with a young lady called emerly

Is she an American? Or should her parents just be prevented from ever naming another child?

[Super Slo Mo]

jas xjr said:

I work with a young lady called emerly

There used to be someone in Stoke called Tuesday, she worked for a marketing company I knew a few years back.

Also recall many years back that another Stoke girl (bit of a theme here possibly) had her name changed by deed poll to Seventeen, as she liked being seventeen years old so much she wanted to remember it.

I've also never met so many people with double barrelled surnames as I have in Stoke, no idea why as it's a bit of a st hole, although perhaps everyone's trying to raise its status

[Ste1987]

My name's Steve, or Steven. Don't mind what you call me, as long as you don't spell it fking Stephen!