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Help[Opinions] Eh, a little.
in reply to a message by zoopeht
My name is a spelling nightmare. It SHOULDN'T be, for the most part, but it is. My first name is Megan - spelled with the standard, top-100-for-the-past-30-years spelling. You wouldn't BELIEVE all the misspellings I've seen of it. Most common is Meghan, but I've seen everything: Meygan, Magen (this one is extremely common for reasons that escape me), Maygan, Mehgan, Magan, Megen, etc. And occasionally it will get mispronounced as MEE-gan, too.
My middle name is Michele, with one L. It doesn't come up very often, seeing as it's just my middle name, but I have had people ask if it was a typo or something. No, that's just how I spell it.
My last name is pretty common, but it's spelled with a C instead of a K so I always have to spell it out for people or it'll wind up spelled with a K. And then my boyfriend's last name is uncommon and no one ever knows how to spell OR pronounce it, so when I marry him and take his last name that'll be a whole new set of problems.
So I do take it into consideration, since it is a little obnoxious to deal with. I would never kre8tyvlee spell anything. But at the same time, I figure some people just can't spell, so probably unless your name is John or Mary (and maybe even then) it'll get misspelled at some point, and you just kind of have to go with it.
My middle name is Michele, with one L. It doesn't come up very often, seeing as it's just my middle name, but I have had people ask if it was a typo or something. No, that's just how I spell it.
My last name is pretty common, but it's spelled with a C instead of a K so I always have to spell it out for people or it'll wind up spelled with a K. And then my boyfriend's last name is uncommon and no one ever knows how to spell OR pronounce it, so when I marry him and take his last name that'll be a whole new set of problems.
So I do take it into consideration, since it is a little obnoxious to deal with. I would never kre8tyvlee spell anything. But at the same time, I figure some people just can't spell, so probably unless your name is John or Mary (and maybe even then) it'll get misspelled at some point, and you just kind of have to go with it.
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