My name is Tim, but call me Tom
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Ste1987 said:
My name's Steve, or Steven. Don't mind what you call me, as long as you don't spell it f
king Stephen!
Similar - one of my oldest friends is Stewart, he hates it when people spell it Stuart.king Stephen!With a name like mine you don't tend to get mixed up with anyone else but I have been called Leon in my current job and Lee in my previous because there were colleagues with those names. Easily corrected, no embarassment.
I find it a little weird that some of you do not want to correct people when they get your name wrong because it is embarrassing for you?
Alec, I hate being called Alec it's not my name.
On email I get called Clay, mostly by Americans it has to be said. I've signed the email Alex, it's not hard to write back in kind. I always double check names, especially in emails. An email address could be daniel but they sign it Dan or another variant.
One oddity I have found recently though is that a large % of the Israelis in the Co. use a name completely different to their official name. Makes it a nightmare finding the right person in a large company.
On email I get called Clay, mostly by Americans it has to be said. I've signed the email Alex, it's not hard to write back in kind. I always double check names, especially in emails. An email address could be daniel but they sign it Dan or another variant.
One oddity I have found recently though is that a large % of the Israelis in the Co. use a name completely different to their official name. Makes it a nightmare finding the right person in a large company.
Step Daughter #2 is Rachael. She likes having the second A and makes a point of having her name spelled correctly. On her first morning at a job she was dealing with a girl in HR:
"Your first name?"
"Rachael; spelt A - E - L."
"So, R - A - C - H - A - E - L?"
"Yes."
"That's not pronounced Rachael. It's Raquel."
We now call her Raquel occasionally. Oh, how we laugh. The long evenings just fly past.
"Your first name?"
"Rachael; spelt A - E - L."
"So, R - A - C - H - A - E - L?"
"Yes."
"That's not pronounced Rachael. It's Raquel."
We now call her Raquel occasionally. Oh, how we laugh. The long evenings just fly past.
Bullett said:
Alec, I hate being called Alec it's not my name.
I get called Alec too, mainly it's old people that do it. A very good and old friend of the mum in law's has always called me Alec, she even addresses Christmas cards to me as Alec, I have told her on numerous occasions that it is Alex, still calls me Alec though.My daughter has an unusaul name; Saskia, it is amazing how many people can't pronounce it, she has had Shashika, Shaska, Sak-eye-a and various others. It is pronounced exactly as it is spelt, fortunately she just finds it funny.
Super Slo Mo said:
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 
A lot of the double barrelled names occur because the parents are not married 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 s
t hole, although perhaps everyone's trying to raise its status RizzoTheRat said:
My surname's Gray, so many people manage to misspell it that had our work IT lot add Grey variants of my e-mail address as aliases as lots of people seem to get that wrong. Since 50 shades of Grey came out my first name has caused some amusement too...
Oh, no, you've started on surnames."Your surname?"
"Cutler."
"Butler?"
"Cutler."
"Gutter?"
"Cutler."
"Culter?"
"Cutler. C - U - T - L - E - R. As in knife and fork."
When I looked, I had become Richard Cutlery.
jas xjr said:
A lot of the double barrelled names occur because the parents are not married
Not always though. My mother was one of two sisters so the last in her line to carry the surname. My parents decided to hyphenate my mother's and father's surname to continue the lineage and preserve ancestry.Also, my brother and I is more posher.
Mr Obertshaw said:
My name's Mathew, but I nearly always get called Rob because that's the first part of my surname. The exception to this is my mum who calls me Simon, Graham, Ian, Jim before finally remembering I'm Mat.
My grandmother used to do that as she got older, work through my uncles names before she got to mine 
Worryingly my mothers started doing it occasionally too.RizzoTheRat said:
Mr Obertshaw said:
My name's Mathew, but I nearly always get called Rob because that's the first part of my surname. The exception to this is my mum who calls me Simon, Graham, Ian, Jim before finally remembering I'm Mat.
My grandmother used to do that as she got older, work through my uncles names before she got to mine Worryingly my mothers started doing it occasionally too.Now I do it to my youngest having given all but the firstborn similar treatment - though it involves four incorrect attempts compared to my parents who only had to go through three.
They also sound alike, so phone calls don't always start accurately, and now they're all old (they think anything 20+ is old and two are 30+) they sound like me, so confusion over identity is commonplace.
jas xjr said:
Chlamydia said:
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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 soundThus... Sio (sho) bh(v) ân (awn)
Rock on Tommy.....
t you not.jas xjr said:
Super Slo Mo said:
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
A lot of the double barrelled names occur because the parents are not married 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 s
t hole, although perhaps everyone's trying to raise its status DickyC said:
RizzoTheRat said:
My surname's Gray, so many people manage to misspell it that had our work IT lot add Grey variants of my e-mail address as aliases as lots of people seem to get that wrong. Since 50 shades of Grey came out my first name has caused some amusement too...
Oh, no, you've started on surnames."Your surname?"
"Cutler."
"Butler?"
"Cutler."
"Gutter?"
"Cutler."
"Culter?"
"Cutler. C - U - T - L - E - R. As in knife and fork."
When I looked, I had become Richard Cutlery.
king letters in fact."Surname?"
"Tait"
"T-A-T-E?"
"No T-A-I-T"
"T-A-I-T-E?"
"No, no "E", just T-A-I-T"
"Oh OK, it's just so confusing"
No, no it f
king isn't confusing.What's in a name?
f
k knows.I have a friend called Robert. He dislike being called Bob and another one called Bob who dose not take to be called Robert. My nephew Anthony will respond to Ant but hates to be called Tony. Yet another friend Tony will not stand being addressed as Anthony.
Having the surname Clarke my father was known a Nobby. Growing up as a kid most people around the village referred to me as young knob.
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