It’s unthinkable to try and get any kind of email address, domain name or username with any connection to my real name on any website, but that’s not terrible. Gives me a good explanation for using “LadiesMan007″ on my Gmail account (kidding).

Years ago, while hurrying out the door to have dinner with some friends, I received a telemarketer call offering a free magazine subscription for six months. Yeah, fine, it’s free, go ahead and send me your magazine, right? Well, the woman needed my name and address. Address first, no problem. Now to name: “Bill Brown,” I reply. “I’m sorry?” comes her response. “Bill Brown,” I repeat as slowly as one can possibly repeat only two syllables. “Can you spell that for me, please?” she asks. Incredulously, I say, “Bill, B-I-L-L, and Brown, like the color.” Two weeks later, along comes my shiny new magazine addressed to (you guessed it): Bill Brownlikethecolor. Spelled perfectly. That magazine and the subsequent five volumes which came later as part of that call remain in my library because it’s just too damn funny.

Otherwise, I’m pretty fortunate to have few problems with my name.

I having a big fun with the previous comments…

secondly they always spell my last name wrong like Readon Reardron when it is really spelt like this Reardon why cant they just remember it and go on with life happily and if they cant then they can just write the letter R

Secondly people always spell my last name wrong. They spell it Rashley, Rashly or Rashlie. When it is spelt ‘Rashleigh’!!

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P.S Age: 10 Grade: 5

I spell ‘Damian’ in what seems to me the obvious way. The most common misspelling of my name is Damien, as used in the Omen trilogy. I have met people spelled Dameon and Damion.

My surname ‘Cugley’ would sometimes come back as Cugleigh or Cuddley. This seems to happen less often nowadays; maybe people know to copy & paste surnames… :-)

Then there’s my surname!
McPhillips
I can see why people wouldn’t put the small “c” then the capital “P” but sometimes people spell it:
Phillips – they seem to think the McP has no meaning
mcphilips – 2 Ls why would it be any different to Phillip?
Macphillips – as if we are the phillips’ but got employed by mAcdonalds!

Middle name is grace so thats ok!

Despite the fact that most of Southwestern Ohio has heard of “Rocky and Bullwinkle” and thus Boris and Natasha (my namesake)…

L’s replace N’s, M’s replace N’s, E’s and I’s replace A’s and sometimes crucial letters such as A’s and H’s are forgotten all together. Note, there’s three A’s. Three! Not two. Not one. Three. Please, for the love of God, use them all!

(I know….new response to not-quite-so-recent entry.)

Also, like Edward wrote in comment #11, it’s especially difficult to enter a last name like mine online. It’s often recorded as D/’Agosta, if the form even accepts it at all.

*Please excuse me for not knowing the IPA. :-P

Pronounced “Lu.oh.ma”

Rhymes with “diploma”

When giving it to people over the phone I no longer tell people what it is, but instead say “I’ll spell it for you, it’s 5 letters: L U (pause) O (pause) M A.

Because as soon as people here “Lu” they write “Lou”

Louoma
Looma

It’s helpful with the telemarketers though, especially the ones whose autodialers just connect to whoever answers and then connects that call with some random telemarketer who has 2 seconds to look at the screen to figure out how to pronounce your name.

“Is Mr L– Lu-oh… Low-u-mah..” (that click you hear is me hanging up on your annoying telemarketing ass.)

It’s annoying because it’s pretty easy if you give it any effort whatsoever you ought to be able to get it.