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06-10-2011, 08:39 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Columbus, Ohio | | | Why does everyone misspell my last name?
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My name is Matthew Andrus. Andrus is not a hard name to spell or even remember for that matter. While it's not a super common name like like Smith or Jones, it's not too uncommon to find someone with my last name that's not related to me. My last name has been spelled countless ways by countless people; Andes, Andreas, Andrews, Anderson, etc., and now...Angus.
So my band's new CD just had a pretty good review from a guy on a website here. He gives props to the groove and the rhythm section, BUT...he calls me Matt ANGUS!!!
How in the world is my name going to get out there if everyone keeps misspelling it? 
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06-10-2011, 08:43 AM
|  | Rocking my garage five nights a week. | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Sturtevant WI | | | Same boat. My last name ends in "en" and most people want to have it end in "on".
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06-10-2011, 08:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Tustin, CA | | Brasfield. It's usually spelled "Brassfield," "Bradfield," or "Bradsfield."
The kicker is, when I spell it out, people always say, "Are you sure?" 
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06-10-2011, 08:53 AM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | So this is more of a "hey guys, check out this review of my band" than a lament about spelling errors.
-Mike |
06-10-2011, 08:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Columbus, Ohio | | | I just read that review again and I realized that they called Pam, the singer, by here maiden name, Ison. She's married to the guitarist, Chris Nye. WTH???
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06-10-2011, 08:56 AM
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Originally Posted by MJ5150 So this is more of a "hey guys, check out this review of my band" than a lament about spelling errors.
-Mike | No, really, it's not. I was a little PO'd about it and had to rant. I really don't like this band's music as much as my other one but it's fun to play and gig with them.
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06-10-2011, 08:56 AM
|  | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | pfffff.. I have had my name misspelled and mispronounced so many times that I'm surprised when someone gets it right 
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06-10-2011, 09:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Relic pfffff.. I have had my name misspelled and mispronounced so many times that I'm surprised when someone gets it right | Last night I wondered if Moe Szyslak was supposed to be one of those anti-Polish jokes that I didn't get. I just googled him though and it doesn't look to be the case
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06-10-2011, 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Relic pfffff.. I have had my name misspelled and mispronounced so many times that I'm surprised when someone gets it right | Let's start a club- mine's *Thornbrugh* which in 2-12th grade was more often than not *Thornbarf, -dog, -dookey, etc*
One clown dubbed me *Throwup* 
Some very dear friends now refer to us as the *Thornbrutals*
I like that one. 
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06-10-2011, 09:04 AM
| | | | Meh.. it's not as bad as having to stop, and think over how to spell your own last name... or always bouncing between two pronunciations... :hide: my last name has been pronounced two ways as far back as I can remember, and furthermore... it translates from Italian to English to the name of another country.. a place I have no roots...
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06-10-2011, 09:04 AM
| | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bassteban Let's start a club- mine's *Thornbrugh* which in 2-12th grade was more often than not *Thornbarf, -dog, -dookey, etc*
One clown dubbed me *Throwup*
Some very dear friends now refer to us as the *Thornbrutals*
I like that one. | You got off easy - I'll PM you what they corrupted mine to!
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06-10-2011, 09:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Oracle, Arizona | | | But basically (albeit written with mistakes) it is not something that got you taunted in school. I always felt real bad for kids with names that other kids made fun of.....
Some of the names --- I'm sorry, but I would change them, no matter family history or pride or whatever. Kids get a serious ration of crap in school for some names that sound similar to genitals, excrement, behaviors, or "the evacuation of bodily fluids" |
06-10-2011, 09:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Toronto, Canada | | | My last name is L'Abbé, pronounced la-bay. The only people who have ever spelled it right the first time are my family and various Quebecois.
But the Quebecois are no good to me, because they automatically disregard me as 'Les Anglais.'
I'm proud of my heritage, don't get me wrong... but sometimes I wish I could have been called 'Smith'.
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06-10-2011, 09:14 AM
|  | One lab accident away from being a supervillain | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Powder Springs, Ga | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Relic pfffff.. I have had my name misspelled and mispronounced so many times that I'm surprised when someone gets it right | Amen.
I've had it mispelled on my: driver's license, debit card, credit card, student ID, car title, and I'm sure there's more. And for all of those, I handed them a form with my name block-printed on it as well as at least 1 form of picture ID with the correct spelling.
Sometimes I start to think that the rest of the world may be right and WE are simply mispelling our names 
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06-10-2011, 09:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Columbus, Ohio | | | OK, you guys are starting to make me feel bad about feeling bad about my name misspelled.
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06-10-2011, 09:18 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | Phhhhfffft!
Try having a name like Von Porklipps!
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06-10-2011, 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by R. Laevinus My last name is L'Abbé, pronounced la-bay. The only people who have ever spelled it right the first time are my family and various Quebecois.
But the Quebecois are no good to me, because they automatically disregard me as 'Les Anglais.'
I'm proud of my heritage, don't get me wrong... but sometimes I wish I could have been called 'Smith'. | Ah, I usually spell Labbé when I hear it. Except if you say it has an apostrophe.
Labadie (law-baw-dee) gets its fair share of misspellings, especially in the English world. Lab-uh-DIE!
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06-10-2011, 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Phalex Phhhhfffft!
Try having a name like Von Porklipps! | Or a face like Ron Jeremy.
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06-10-2011, 09:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: USA | | | Almost everyone gets my name wrong; I'm used to it. |
06-10-2011, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by capnsandwich My name is Matthew Andrus. /rant | Anyone ever forget the 'd' and 'r' ?  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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