Matt, what is your middle name?
Nick, I Americanize the pronunciation of my surname all the time, but misspell it, never. I grr at people that put an "s" after it. It's Tran, not Trans.
Averydoll, not on purpose. Usually we correct things? Typos, I understand, but what if we've had that name for most of our lives? I'm trying to figure out if this person I'm conversing with is a fake or not because there can only be one last name. Is it Wilks or Wilkes? This happened on a number of occasions too. It's not just some temporary typo.
It's hard to misspell Duff, but my mom misspells her maiden name, Peabody, a lot. It's because the name was originally Paybody and somewhere along the line it was changed. She varies between the two. She's also batshit insane, so it's quite possible you're conversing with a lunatic.
It's Pastorella, with an 'a' at the end. Not an 'o' or an 'i', it's an 'a'.
To pronounce it, imagine your formally introducing your Reverend Ella to someone, you would say, this is Pastor Ella.
It's not Pastrami, or Patrenella, or even Pasterini. It's Pastorella. It's Sicilian. It means lucky shepherd.
I tell most people my last name means Sexy Bald Man. Most people say, "how appropriate."
I NEVER misspell my name, though I do occasionally mispell misspell. <<<<<
I tell most people my last name means Sexy Bald Man. Most people say, "how appropriate."
@Bob
There's a Kings of Leon parody (of this sex is on fire) by a local (Dutch) group that's been rocking the radio stations for a while called 'Sex Met Die Kale' (Sex with the bald). That could be your theme song.
Yeah, I have a few times. Mine is Anderson and I pause a half second between the A, the n and the d. I have when someone spoke to me or something distracted me looked up from the A and came back to the D, leaving out the N. It's a common last name, the only one/spelling I've ever had. No excuse, just something that happens. So yeah it happens. Now if it happens A LOT there is a back story, this might happen to me once every year or 3.
@Verbose - Are you not American? Which is cool if you aren't, I just thought you had said you were.
When I got married i sometimes used my husband's last name and sometimes didn't. It was confusing at the dry-cleaners sometime when I didn't know which name i put stuff under. I used both for a long time. But it got scary with the IRS. They thought I was two people, so I had to go with one name. I took his, years after we were married. Old fashioned, yes, but i don't care. It worked out.
@Cove My mom did the same thing -- they never audited her, but she used her own off and on for so long that we still get mail addressed to Laura Peabody (or Paybody.) She sometimes hyphenates it, sometimes uses just my father's. She officially changed it to Duff, though, and gave my sister and me our father's name. I think it's when her inner feminist rears up that she uses Peabody.
It's hard to mispell Parks, but I've had OTHER people mispell and mispronounce it as Park. To this day, my mailman calls me "Ms. Park." I remember when we first met. He was surprised I wasn't asian... especially since I receive a lot of packages from Korea, China, and Japan.
It's even spelled PARK on my mailbox. I never bothered to correct him.
Now, my MIDDLE name? Because I've never really paid attention to my birth certificate, and because my mom has a tendency to change the way names are spelled when filling out said birth certificates, I'm not sure I've ever spelled my middle name correctly.