My name is Tim, but call me Tom

[BossHogg]

My name is Tom, please don't call me Tim!

[DickyC]

Her name was McGill and she called herself Lil but everyone knew her as Nancy.

[here_we_go]

HTP99 said:

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.

For people of a certain age Alec is a traditional shortening for Alexander, Alex would be the shortened form of Alexandra (ie a girls name)

[omgus]

bodhi said:

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.

Gus. My fking name is Gus.

G. U. S.

Recent Starbucks efforts include:
Gaf
Gas
Gass
Gaz
Gazz
Bus
Dus
Guf
Guff
Guzz

Just after xmas i got really tired with the same woman spelling it wrong every day and being a little tired and grumpy (and really hungover) i snapped a bit and said it was spelt "G-space-U-space-S" and i got Geespacesyouspaces on my cup.
After that i just stopped complaining.

[Monkeylegend]

I picked up a Nigerian guy a few years ago from Heathrow whose surname was Ng.

He was late coming through and I had to ask the information desk to put a call out for him, thee only problem being neither of us had a clue how to say it, and to this day I still don't.

[kwaka jack]

My name is Jackson, I'm always being called Jason again by people who are to tied up in their own little world to remember someones name. I usually correct them with a not to happy look.

[Philplop]

Monkeylegend said:

I picked up a Nigerian guy a few years ago from Heathrow whose surname was Ng.

He was late coming through and I had to ask the information desk to put a call out for him, thee only problem being neither of us had a clue how to say it, and to this day I still don't.

If it's the same as the Asian name, it's pronounced like "ing" but without the i.

[Philplop]

Monkeylegend said:

I picked up a Nigerian guy a few years ago from Heathrow whose surname was Ng.

He was late coming through and I had to ask the information desk to put a call out for him, thee only problem being neither of us had a clue how to say it, and to this day I still don't.

If it's the same as the Asian name, it's pronounced like "ing" but without the i.

[4941cc]

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"

Is it the Nag's Head?

[motco]

bodhi said:

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.

An old workmate of mine lives in a road called Pasteur Gardens in north London. I often overheard him giving his address to people on the phone: "It's Pasteur, as in Louis Pasteur....." <few seconds> "P.A.S.T.E.U.R....."

[Monkeylegend]

Philplop said:

Monkeylegend said:

I picked up a Nigerian guy a few years ago from Heathrow whose surname was Ng.

He was late coming through and I had to ask the information desk to put a call out for him, thee only problem being neither of us had a clue how to say it, and to this day I still don't.

If it's the same as the Asian name, it's pronounced like "ing" but without the i.

That's easier said than done

[DickyC]

4941cc said:

Is it the Nag's Head?

My all-time favourite boozer, The Willoughby Arms in Kingston, was called The Murderer's by my colleagues who first took me there. The reason was one of the regulars had spent most of his time in prison for three murders. He found out, in the sixties, that three men were systematically abusing his daughter and went after them one at a time with an axe. He found and killed two of them before the Police got to him. He was convicted and put away. In prison, a fellow inmate decided to test how hard he was and was also killed. However, as an older man, in his local, he was a polite and pleasant man. The only thing was, apart from the Landlord, he was hopeless with names. He was John - John the Murderer - and you were Dave. When you went into the pub you would greet the regulars and when you got to him, you would say, "Hello, John," and he would smile broadly, genuinely pleased to see you, and say, "Hello, Dave." No one ever attempted to put him straight.

[callmedave]

My name is Tom, but I get called Tim, John and sometimes Dave! Strange

[axgizmo]

Hello, my name is Laura Etherington

My email address is laurae@******.co.uk so I get emails starting: "hi Laurae, please find attached, blah blah blah"
WHAT?!?! Since when has LauraE been a name?

Often get called Lauren or Loz... Just no!

Have to constantly spell my surname as other wise it gets written Hetherington/ Everington/ Retherington

Ive even been asked: "What is your first name Ms Letherington"

[4941cc]

DickyC said:

...He would smile broadly, genuinely pleased to see you, and say, "Hello, Dave." No one ever attempted to put him straight.

Well that puts a dark spin on a family favourite.

[aw51 121565]

My name is Richard; I tend to be known as Rich at work but my (now late) wife called me Rick and the neighbours have taken this on as well.

I became known as Rick at the local hospital when she was in and out of there in her last 18 months, naturally this included the Chaplain who attended us and also led her funeral. There were several questions asked at her wake by my family and older friends, mostly along the lines of "When did you change your name to Rick?"

Then there was the car club I was once events organiser for, they knew me as Rich. But there was another Rich on the committee who attended events with me and lived near me, plus a third Rich who lived at the opposite end of the country - so three Riches on one forum, and two manning the club stand. What to do?

At the prompting of another, we decided on shorted middle names as nicknames; I took the nickname Al (from my middle name Allan) and the other Rich then became known as Doug (from his middle name Douglas).

Truth be told, I prefer Richard followed closely by Al, and absolutely detest being called Rich or Rick!!

[DickyC]

I'm also Richard. My parents told my brother and me that they named us Peter and Richard as two names impossible to abbreviate.

I'm sorry, you did what?

Love, Pete and Dicky.

[TheExcession]

axgizmo said:

Hello, my name is Laura Etherington

My email address is laurae@******.co.uk so I get emails starting: "hi Laurae, please find attached, blah blah blah"
WHAT?!?! Since when has LauraE been a name?

Often get called Lauren or Loz... Just no!

Have to constantly spell my surname as other wise it gets written Hetherington/ Everington/ Retherington

Ive even been asked: "What is your first name Ms Letherington"

Perhaps you could just learn to elucidate a little more

[Monkeylegend]

Hello, I'm Julian and this is my friend Sandy.

[gazza285]

DickyC said:

I'm also Richard. My parents told my brother and me that they named us Peter and Richard as two names impossible to abbreviate.

I'm sorry, you did what?

Love, Pete and Dicky.

My mate is called Richard Edwin Scott, we call him Dick 'Ed.