Ways to misspell my name...

[Evil Dave]

Originally posted by Grizzix
i know your pain. . .my last name is Le Blanc and i have seen soooo many wrong spellings and heard soooo many wrong pronunciations that it gets to you after a while.

Le Blanc
Le Blank
Le Bonce
Le Bane
Le Blane
Le Black

DAMN YOU PEOPLE!!!! WE HAVE FEELINGS TOO!!!

that felt good

Pronounced La blaw\' ?

 

[beh]

Hey Choirspay, this is quite the thread ya\' got going on unfortunate names. Well done, there Mr. Swine!

\"The family curse is that if anyone gets in front of us, they automatically slow us down\"

Krospkie, maybe it\'s only that your family goes too fast!

 

[Nelson]

I think the worst mangling of my name I have ever witnessed was a grown adult spelling my name (which is Owen) O-n.

On. On!! I should have slapped them, but I thonk they were \"special\", or possibly drunk at the time. Probably both, as it was my dad who did it.

 

[GoldenSkeleton]

Originally posted by beh
...Well done, there Mr. Swine!

hmmm.... Crissppyy Swine, I suddenly feel hungry, could do with some of that in a bap.

Well hello Chripsy, and I share ( well more accurately used to share ) your nickname !!

My name is Chris Turner, which obviously became Chris Turnip in the classroom ( gotta love them kids ) which then became Chris P Turnip ( even though my middlename initial is M ) which then had all the trouble you speak of namely the name I\'ve greeted you with - Chripsy.

This became abbreviated to Crips which sounded too close to a well known and itchy veneral disease for my comfort so I became plain old Chris again.

 

[finn17]

Hmmm....

I suspect that was a Freudian slip with O - N being a subconscious acronym for Oh No!

Which was prolly what he said when your Mum told him to expect the pitter patter of tiny feet....

 

[tooshy]

Wot\'s in a name anyway??

I\'ve been called all matter of things in my time. Some of the less rude ones (& bad spellings) being:

T
Trace
Tracie
Tracey
T-Bone
BigT
RacyTracy (don\'t read too much into this, \'cos \'Racy\' I ain\'t)

I pretty much answer to most things tho

 

[vincegamer]

Originally posted by stumpkiller I had a teacher that insisted that there is no such name as walsh, exchanged the s for a c and marked everything i put walsh on as failing.

That\'s just complete bunk. I could sing my name \"throatwabblermangrove\" and it would still be my valid signature. In fact in Jr. High I used to stamp a green frog on all my homework instead of signing it. You can spell your name however you damn well please.

That said I hate when people misspell my last name, but probably 90% of the time people add an \"s\" to the end and I have to explain that there\'s only one of me.

Here\'s a funny one without mistake or offense:
I used to know a woman who was of African ancestry and her last name was \"Black.\" Funny thing is her maiden name was \"White.\" She loved to tell people \"well, I used to be white but now I\'m black.\"

 

[supervike]

cruelity...

Yes kids are so cruel...

In elementary school I was

StuporVike
PooperVike
SuperPooperVike
SuperPooperScooperVike
SuperSaladVike
SuperDike
PooperDike



some of this post may or may not be true....

 

[Grizzix]

Originally posted by Evil Dave

Pronounced La blaw\' ?

sadly enough it depends on who you ask. my dad pronounces it somewhere between \"Le Bla\" and \"Le Blaw\" but the american language butcher in me pronounces the \"nc at the end

 

[Grizzix]

speaking of cruel parents, at the middle school that my wife teaches their is a girl named Lacy Hooker. cmon people i mean there isnt much they can do about the last name and she already would have caught hell for that one but to name her lacy. . . they should be shot.

when i was in the army there was a guy named Peter Brown which is bad enough but each night at mail call they call last name first and first name last \"Brown, Peter\" parents suck lollol

 

[Evil Dave]

Originally posted by Grizzix

Originally posted by Evil Dave

Pronounced La blaw\' ?

sadly enough it depends on who you ask. my dad pronounces it somewhere between \"Le Bla\" and \"Le Blaw\" but the american language butcher in me pronounces the \"nc at the end

Ah, you need to move to Louisiana, we have tons of Leblanc\'s down here, not much of a problem.

 

[Grizzix]

i was actually born in mississippi which would explain the last name somewhat untill you factor in that my dad is from rhode island and my mom was from indiana. . .go figure. lol