My name is Tim, but call me Tom

[Mr Obertshaw]

LeoZwalf said:

With only one T?

No idea, I assume someone was in a rush at the registry office...

[AlasdairMc]

I reckon there is about a 50% success rate of people being able to spell my name correctly if responding to an email (i.e. where it's already written for them) yet about 1% of someone correctly spelling it if I say it to them. The 1% is fair enough as it's not the most common spelling, but the 50% is just rudeness.

[Fane]

It's Jonathan. Not Johnothon. Or Jeremy FFS.

[Fishtigua]

I worked on one boat and out of a crew of 18, 6 of us were called Dave. That led to all sorts of confusion. This is where nicknames are a must.

Cheers.

Fish.

[Dr Interceptor]

Fane said:

It's Jonathan. Not Johnothon. Or Jeremy FFS.

I shortened mine to Jon to try and make life easier...

But, you should see the look on peoples faces when you tell them you're a 'Jon with no H'.

[sc0tt]

My name is scott.

Please think I am called Stewart???

[Hackney]

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.....

My son's name is Ruairí

When he was born I spelled it out to the Doctor who then told me a story of how she was at uni with someone called Ruairidh.
A nurse came in and asked me to spell the name, but the Doctor chimed in with the spelling of her mate's name so I corrected her.
Then she chided me for not knowing my own son's name and I'd better learn it before my wife found out. I couldn't slapped her!

[Stenn]

"Hi, I'm Stephen."

"Oh, hi there Steve!"

No. Just no.

[mcdjl]

I can understand David if I write my name down- its actually Daniel (yes my writing can be bad), but when its wrong from an email... Mind you i do manage to misspell names from emails if I'm not careful sometimes!

[StottyEvo]

Rickyy said:

Introductions often go as follows:

"Hi, I'm Ricky"

"Hello Richard, nice to meet you"

"No, my parents actually had awful taste and called me Ricky, then Eastenders ruined my life"

Similarly my business partner is named Danny, not Daniel. Over the years plenty of people have been ignored, especially school teachers.

I've been called "Scott" before via email, they'd somehow made the jump from my surname being signed off as "Stott" I responded with Hi followed by there surname spelt incorrectly

[mybrainhurts]

DrDoofenshmirtz said:

My name is Tim.
But all my life, people have mistakenly, on occasion, called me Tom.

Are you round and red, like a tomato...?

[DickyC]

On his first day at primary school a teacher asked my nephew his name and replied he was Louis.

"Oh, you must mean Lewis."

[Issi]

In my local boozer, I'm 'my name' to everybody, apart from one barmaid who calls me Steve, stranger than that is the father and son who come in occassionally.
the son calls me 'my name' and a heartbeat later the Dad says "Hi Tim"

I can be called 3 different names in about 10 seconds and none of the three have noticed that they're all using different names.

[mybrainhurts]

Issi said:

In my local boozer, I'm 'my name' to everybody, apart from one barmaid who calls me Steve, stranger than that is the father and son who come in occassionally.
the son calls me 'my name' and a heartbeat later the Dad says "Hi Tim"

I can be called 3 different names in about 10 seconds and none of the three have noticed that they're all using different names.

FFS, switch your hearing aid on...

[Monkeylegend]

Issi said:

In my local boozer, I'm 'my name' to everybody, apart from one barmaid who calls me Steve, stranger than that is the father and son who come in occassionally.
the son calls me 'my name' and a heartbeat later the Dad says "Hi Tim"

I can be called 3 different names in about 10 seconds and none of the three have noticed that they're all using different names.

I have heard of some funny nicknames in my time but my name takes the biscuit.

[Pferdestarke]

My name's Tom, but people on the other end of the phone like to call me Paul. After I've told them it's Tom.

Okay Paul, I'll just put you through to Tom.

[Issi]

Monkeylegend said:

Issi said:

In my local boozer, I'm 'my name' to everybody, apart from one barmaid who calls me Steve, stranger than that is the father and son who come in occassionally.
the son calls me 'my name' and a heartbeat later the Dad says "Hi Tim"

I can be called 3 different names in about 10 seconds and none of the three have noticed that they're all using different names.

I have heard of some funny nicknames in my time but my name takes the biscuit.

That's brilliant.

[Monkeylegend]

Issi said:

Monkeylegend said:

Issi said:

In my local boozer, I'm 'my name' to everybody, apart from one barmaid who calls me Steve, stranger than that is the father and son who come in occassionally.
the son calls me 'my name' and a heartbeat later the Dad says "Hi Tim"

I can be called 3 different names in about 10 seconds and none of the three have noticed that they're all using different names.

I have heard of some funny nicknames in my time but my name takes the biscuit.

That's brilliant.

I think you don't mean that really

[CB2152]

When I take customer's names I often get looked at like I'm daft.

"Can I take a first name and surname please?"
"Yes it's Mollie Eliott" (obviously they speak that so I don't know the spelling)
"Thanks, is that Molly with a Y or Mollie with an IE?"
"IE"
"And the surname, how is that spelt sorry?"
"E-L-I-O-T-T. Is there another way?"
"Just making sure "

I don't mention the fact that I've seen at least three other different ways of spelling Elliott, and I do apologise to all the Anthony's, Stephen's, Chris's, Rachael's, John's, Hannah's, Sarah's, etc etc, and the people who have various different ways of spelling names that may or may not be as they sound...

[bodhi]

doogz said:

My wife's maiden name was Kettlewell.

She used to complain about it, and looked forward to our wedding for many reasons, one of which being she could ditch her surname.

I didn't get the problem at first, until I phoned a few places and tried to give them her name"

"Kettlewell"

"Oh, and how do you spell that?"

"Kettle. Well. Are you really asking me that?"

I still don't get it tbh.

You have absolutely no idea. My last name is Kyle. All 4 letters of it. But yet, whenever I order some sort of takeaway food, I have to spell it out. Every single goddamned time.

Having said that, a friend of mine at uni had to spell his name out to the local Chinese takeaway. Not a massive problem you would assume - until you find out his name is Ed.