Apropos of Nothing

[penmage]

I really hate it when people misspell my name.

It's not a common name. It's unusual, I know, and even the people who share it with me spell it differently than I do. I can excuse it to a degree. If you've just met me, or if you've never seen it written down, or only write my name down infrequently, whatever, I don't care.

BUT. My professional email address is firstname.lastname@gmail.com. Is it SO HARD to realize that I spell my name like the first half of said email address when you're emailing me? Or, when you've known me for a really long time, and had opportunity to see me write my name and spell my name many times, is it so hard to spell it right?

It's totally unjustified, but it seriously pisses me off.

Comments

[lizardling.livejournal.com]

I have people who spell my first name with an i in corporate email, even though Outlook automatically expands my email alias to the right spelling. Not only that, but my alias is also firstnamelastname at company. :p I'm with you on the irritation.

However, my last name is pretty much unspellable on first glance and is completely not phonetic. So I just shrug when people screw that up.