What should be the spelling of my name

I got this question last night from a presumably native English-speaking lady, but admittedly very young. Here are some of the latest — Rabuda, Robeerda, Reburta, Ruberda.

So, requesting a correction would be futile. It must be the pronunciation. Is it such an unusual or difficult name? I wish I read this post when it was posted. What could be so difficult about that? Go figure , and any other variation they can come up with.

I would never want my child to go through any of those problems with their names. Their child will spend his whole life correcting people. They said Brigit with a soft g so often that she would often tell folks to call her Brigit. She used to suffer not the misspelling her name being mangled in conversation. She would get Lowree, Lonnie, Lanni, Loree, and other odd pronunciations. If the former, I see where the confusion starts, though people should listen and learn.

Maeve — how DO you say your name? I never spoken to anyone with your beautiful, but rare-in-my-parts, name. I absolutely hate it when I get something in the mail for me and they misspell, not just my first name, but my last name wrong too.

The first time, I was like wth? Then the next seven times, I was like wtf. On the fourth one, someone actually managed to spell my whole name correctly.

This is how it will go. I am also a stickler for spelling my name correctly. Nice and simple, short and sweet. It was only mentioned a million times in pages.

I appreciated the review, truly, but felt disappointed in that lack of care to take one extra step in making sure everything was spelled correctly. Another funny thing about my name is that people tend to want to over-complicate it, make it look or sound fancier than it is. They spell it Chrystal, Crystall, Christel, etc. Just had to post here. Now days with the foreigners here in the U. I get it spelled Lyn, Lin, Len, and Lynn mostly ugh. I get now that if I want it spelled correctly I have to spell it for people the first time.

BUT if they misspell it after that then I really get annoyed!!! I have devised a tag line for my email after my signature. Dynamic spell-check is not omniscient. If your software of choice is not dynamically spell-checking, you can likely turn it on in preferences.

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