have you ever been called by a wrong name?

Question

have you ever been called by a wrong name or have your name/surname been pronounced incorrectly? how did you feel? what did you do?

Answer 1

Oh,yes,many times. To tell you the truth it is not pretty to be pronounciated, it is Slavic one and I am let's say came to terms with myself with that fact.
Have a nice time!

Answer 2

My boss has been calling me by the wrong name for over a year now. There are two of us in the building who both have brown hair and are of similar builds - but the similarities end there. However, she has been mixing up our names the entire time, and no amount of correcting seems to be getting through. My "twin" and I just laugh at it now. On the last day of school (I'm a teacher), last year, we wore giant name badges all day and she didn't even ask us about them. Argh. I blame it on senility, but in my opinion if I respect you enough to know your name, and know how to pronounce it correctly, I expect you to show me the same respect. At the beginning of the school year I drive my students crazy asking them to clarify their names if they're spelled or pronounced unusually, but by the end of September I'm calling every single student by their name AND PRONOUNCING IT CORRECTLY, no matter how unusual or foreign. It's a matter of respect.

Answer 3

Yep my english instructor referred to as me Ruben continuously. My call is Wouter it doesn't even sound an same!? And we also did not seem an same so it became type of odd. the in basic terms component that would were complicated the position our marks. those were very a lot an same. not so good by technique of how...

Answer 4

All the time. I always get mad about it since the people should know better to call by the wrong name.

Answer 5

Of course, my mom calls me by my sisters name and my first and last name are African (but not hard to pronounce) but subsitutes always mispronounce my name i bet on it with my class mates that they'll say it wrong but it hasn't happened lately.

Answer 6

Sure. I pretty much let it go if it's someone I don't have much contact with or ever will again. If it's somebody I would run into a lot, I have made conversation with them and tried to insert my name into the conversation, like this: "I tried to fix the faucet and realized, '(name), you are no plumber!' "
Hopefully they'll get the hint.

Answer 7

All the time. I just politely correct the person and try not to make a big deal out of it. Although, sometimes it does become rather annoying.

Answer 8

yeah...i keep on getting called my best friends name....sometimes the teacher mistakes my name and i get in trouble but luckily i get saved by the classroom....i feel kind of mad because i don't like to get blamed for something i didn't do ...but i just am used to it now.....just let yourself tell ur friends how u feel and if u want tell the teacher how to pronounce your name or tell her that u don't like being called that

Answer 9

Happens to me all the time. I have 3 sisters and we all favor so I am always getting called by one of their names. Doesnt bother me. It could be worse.

Answer 10

Yep. Not only by my family, but by teachers too.
My name is "Katrina". It's not that hard, and now it's famous because of the hurricane. Yet, I've been called "Katie", "Katheryn", "Katarina", and anything else you could possibly begin with a K for years by teachers.
It annoys me a bit, but I don't take it seriously enough to go full out and correct them.

Answer 11

happens to me all the, I just ignore it cause its happenend my whole life. My name is not very common and when people look at on paper they don't know how to pronounce it. I usually correct them and laugh