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Originally Posted by Sciencewoman
Too bad my mother-in-law wasn't told this when my husband was born. He has a common name with two of the letters reversed: Jeffery instead of Jeffrey. People tend to "correct" it to the typical spelling. This has caused him to have to have his passport redone, barely in time for a trip to Australia, and to have the mortgage papers on our first house redone. It's just a pain.
Changing the spelling on a common name creates a lifelong nuisance.
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See,I feel for your husband. I have a name that has many spelling options, all "correct" (and some wacky).
Tracey
Tracy
Tracie
Traci
Traycee (don't do this to your child!)
It burns my biscuits that people INSIST on spelling my name incorrectly, especially in the face of overwhelming documentation to the contrary. For example: when I was a teenager/college age, I was a municipal lifeguard. I had to fill my timesheets out in triplicate. All spelled TracEY. Nope, all paychecks to TracY.
My current work e-mail is
Name@Company.com. Right? So you have to TYPE my first name to get an e-mail to me, but then when you address me by misspelling my first name in the body of the e-mail, I have to question your sanity. I'm going to blame it all on the fact that they're a bunch of computer dudes.
My mortgage paperwork had to be changed because the mortgage company had misspelled my name. Dude, you had my driver's license right in front of you!
The plus side is that this has made me hyper aware of checking the spelling of people's names before I hit send. Grr, etc.