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Originally Posted by PhoenixAzul
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 . . . .
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And I feel your pain. I have a given name that has more than one standard nickname with more than one accepted spelling, and the one I use isn't the more common one, though it's hardly unusual. I've lost count of how many times people like bank tellers will see my full name and, trying to be friendly and familiar, call me by a nickname that I not only don't use, but that I really don't like being called.
Add to that, there is more than one pronunciation—the "usual" one and the one you'll likely only find in parts of the South and, supposedly, in Scotland. Yes, I have had people tell me that I pronounce my name incorrectly.
The funny thing is that growing up, I knew a handful of other people with my name (or the more common spelling variant), and they all pronounce the name the same way my family and I do. I was in college before I met anyone who pronounces it the "normal" way.
Meanwhile, my brother has a name that isn't but so common and that is spelled differently from the way it's normally seen. He had to have his med school diploma redone. My sister has a name we've never heard outside our family, except as a surname.
And to be clear, our parents didn't change spellings or anything like that. These are all family names that go back generations.
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