Name problems?




Posted by Xero

[COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]At school and at work, people tend to give call me "Guillaume" when my name is "Christophe" I ask them why they call me another name and they just apologize saying that I have a face of "guillaume".

What's funny is that I also happen to give names to people. A name just comes to my head. Can't explain it. Last year a girl kept getting upset at me for calling her "Audrée" instead of "Gabrielle" but couldn't help it. Everytime I saw her I thought her name was "audrée". Weird.

Anyways does it happen to you?
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Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

My name actually is Guillaume. In, you know, French.

I can't really help you. I just wanted to make an underhanded remark at the expense of the French, and it didn't really work.




Posted by Xero

[COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]No it didn't really, but I was just asking if you guys have people calling with another name or if you call other people with different names (not on purpose)

If not, then frenchies like me must be special...[/COLOR]




Posted by Delilah

A lot of people call me Emily. I don't know why- it bothers me to no end. Lol it's funny, though, because this one guy who keeps calling me that asked "Have you seen you sister Emily around, Hannah?" (we were at the church), and I told him that I saw her in the office, and he spent the whole morning looking for "Emily."




Posted by Xero


Quoting Delilah: A lot of people call me Emily. I don't know why- it bothers me to no end. Lol it's funny, though, because this one guy who keeps calling me that asked "Have you seen you sister Emily around, Hannah?" (we were at the church), and I told him that I saw her in the office, and he spent the whole morning looking for "Emily."


[COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]I didn't get all the story, but I laughed thinking that the guy looked for nothing all morning :p: Hasen't happened to me yet though.[/COLOR]



Posted by Sapphire Rose

People call me God. Mostly because I like to go by it... but nope, no one ever calls me a name that is not mine.

And why would they not call you Christophe? That's a cool name.




Posted by Xero

[COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Aw thanx :)

They don't call me Christophe simply because I look like my name is Guillaume. About 1 student on 20 is called Guillaume in my school. I hate it.[/COLOR]




Posted by Speedfreak

Why can no one pronounce "Ely"? There's a fucking huge city in England of the same name and everyone still says it wrong.




Posted by Xero

[COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Err...Never heard of "Ely" before. That's probably why I wouldn't be able to pronounce it...[/COLOR]




Posted by junior senior

Pronounced "E Lie"

right?




Posted by Dexter

I don't respond to my real name. How messed up is that?




Posted by WackoHater2

There is a kid in my school, his name is Chris. I call him Valdez. He just acts like a Valdez.




Posted by Zeta

I always have to spell my last name for people. It's "Newkirk"; how can people not figure out how to spell that on their own? It's on the same level of simplicity as Smith, or Jackson, or Thompson, or etc...




Posted by Dexter

It probably sounds like something that should be more complicated to spell.

I always have to spell my last name, too. Hartunian.




Posted by Killer Jordo

Yeah, I give some of my mates nick-names.

Damola = Big D(haha a teacher called him that so I stole it)
John = Gab gab(asian/ethnic name)
Levi = Lebro(long conversation led to this)
Brett = Bretto
Jasmine = Yasmine

There are some 'one-time' nick-names that I use too.




Posted by Vampiro V. Empire

Almost everyone calls me CJ when technically that's not my name. Otherwise, usually doesn't happen to me. Though pretty much every friend I have has a nickname, but I'm not going to list them all.




Posted by Sapphire Rose

Come to think of it, my last name is done wrong all the time.

"It's SHOTWELL"... schools and stuff always put me down as "Sodwell" or "Stockwell".

Pretty gay.




Posted by Sean Fury

I have a question.

Who the **** would say someone looks like a "Guillaume"?

And in any case, my real name is Sean, and the only other name that I've been called that wasn't a nickname, is Claudio.




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

Ely is is pronounced as in 'O ELY'?




Posted by Dexter


Quoting Vampiro V. Empire: Almost everyone calls me CJ when technically that's not my name.


Because you're the son of Grim.



Posted by Vampiro V. Empire

Son of? **** you.




Posted by Omni

My name is Jonathon, which is the original spelling of the name, before it was corrupted into a more common form, which is Jonathan. I'm not saying it's a better spelling, or anything like that. The thing is how annoying it is when people ask me how it's pronounced compared to Jonathan. That's stupid.




Posted by Kit

People always say my surname "Harris" instead of "Harrison". Doesn't really bother me, but they can at least get it right.




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

Stone Cold Crazy, you're so wrong. 'Jonathan' appears in religious texts, and is derived from the name Nathan. It's the spelling with an O that is an alternative spelling.




Posted by Sapphire Rose

[quote], before it was corrupted into a more common form, which is Jonathan
He said that, Wings. :(




Posted by ScudZteR

There was a girl who went to my school last year who I always called Heather or Rachel...even though her name was Danielle. Its ridiculous to have two names I would confuse her with but she just looked like a Heather...or a Rachel. Plus I always call my friend John, Galen. Thats even more ridiculous because I've known him for...2 years?




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

Once I called a girlfriend by a name she didn't have. It didn't go over too well.




Posted by Fei-on Castor

My name is "Anthony", and any time I say that, I get one of two reactions. The typical New Yorker "Ayyyyy, Tony!", or they think I said "Andy", and I'll usually let them call me "Andy" because I feel akward correcting them.




Posted by Xero

[COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Why was my thread moved here?[/COLOR]




Posted by NES Queen

Since I have a name that is traditionally only reserved for the male gender, I've been taking **** for it for the last 28 years. People have a hard time believing it's pronounced the same way as the boy name, or think it should be short for something else.

The nurse in elementary school refused to call me by my correct name since "that's a boys name, you're not a boy silly!" so she called me Kylie for 6 years.

My high school thought I was a boy up until 12th grade, always sending things home saying "We're writing to you in regards of your son, Kyle."

Even if I specify Ms. or Miss. on application forms, I still get mail and phone calls addressed to Mr. Kyle Nevins. The best was when the army called trying to recruit me to enlist. Once I told them that I was Kyle they apologized and hung up.

Can't tell you the number of emails, junk mail, and catalogs I've received that are clearly geared towards males (viagra, penis enlargments, playboy subscriptions...)

Every bowling league I've been on has listed me as a male until I catch it and correct them after seeing my name on the top scores list for men rather than women.

The weirdest thing though, is that with emails at work I've gotten people calling me Kevin quite often. My first initial and last name is K. Nevins, so I suppose they just read it quick and think it says Kevin for some reason, but its happend about 5 times so far.




Posted by mis0

Poor Queeny. That sounds very annoying for you. :(

I have a regular first name (Kristin) but my last name (Nyyssonen) confuses the Hell out of people. They never ever spell it right, nor can they pronounce it (not that I care, but it's neez-son-ehn).




Posted by VampchickAkasha

no one ever calls me by anything but jenny.. which sucks cuz of the whole forest gump movie and everything..




Posted by WackoHater2

This dude Lance's nickname is "Romance" and for some reason, I always take that as his last name, rather than his nickname.




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

Man, Lance Romance? Awesome.




Posted by Jarulara

I really don't get problems with my name. Usually it's the closest people who mix my name up but that's because most of us start with J. But your situation is wierd because both names are unique I don't know how people do that.




Posted by KoH

In every job or school I've been to, I have given nicknames to both coworkers/students and bosses/teachers. If one guy's name was Jason, I would call him Lord Jason of Ineptitude (He was a former boss). However, my usual nicknames consisted of adding a few letters to the end of the name. Such as, Mrs. Reed would be Reedster, etc.

As for nicknames given to me... At the movie theater I used to work at they called me Superman 'cause... well... they, for some reason, thought I reminded them of Superman. Simple, yes? At another I was deemed "Neo." And during my early high school years I was named "huge whale." :( Yeah... I was a fatty. :( :( :(

Oh, I'm also called "the KoH lord" among some of my friends.




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

Well, you'll forever be Huge Whale to me, if it helps. Whaley for short.




Posted by KoH

YAY! Oh how I missed the old days of insult/nicknames as opposed to compliment/nicknames... Brings a tear to the old eye, it does. :crying:

But in all fairness to my prior state of being, I was just big. I was 6' 2" and 250 lbs. So... I was like a bloated giant.




Posted by Arwon

In America, a disturbing number of people couldn't pronounce "Sean" based on how it's written (you know, with the correct spelling). i mean, it's not an uncommon name. I an understand getting it wrong if you're from a non-English-speaking background but really, otherwise you should know it. I also had problems over there because Americans pronounce "John" and "Sean" basically identically, so I'd sometimes get confused about whether people were talking to me.

In Australia, I haven't had those problems, but one of the Asian languages I hear spoken around here (Mandarin or possibly Cantonese) contains a commonly used word which sounds basically like "Sean" so I get confused until I realise they're not saying my name.

Yay.




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

Hey, at least your name isn't a verb.