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[rynne]

I really wish people would stop spelling my name wrong.

Our yearbook came out this week, and in two of my group pictures, my name is spelled wrong. Which two? The National Merit Finalists and the National Honor Society members.

I find it supremely ironic, albeit annoying, that both of the high-academic-honor group pictures I'm in have misspellings. It's just worse that it happens to be my name (first name in National Merit, and both first and last in Honor Society) and my twin's (last in Honor Society). And there were only twelve of us in the National Merit picture. How hard can it be to look at twelve names to make sure you're spelling them right, especially when you most likely would have had to have them with you in order to know who's who?

Gah. My name is misspelled (and mispronounced) often enough that it probably shouldn't irk me so much to see that it's happened again, but dammit, being a National Merit Finalist was one of the pinnacles of my high school career, and the least they could have done was spelled my damn name right.

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[ignipes.livejournal.com]

That sucks. :(

At my sister's high school graduation, they mispronounced her first name when they called her up for her diploma. She does have an unusual name, but this was AFTER a practice session in which she had already corrected them. The funny thing is, they also mispronounced the last name, which is a name about as ordinary as one can get without being Smith.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I feel for her. I hope they don't pronounce my name wrong too--I know they've got it spelled right for the program and the diploma, at least, but pronunciation...*worried*

[greenwitch.livejournal.com]

OUCH.

I think they misspelled my name on my diploma, though. Because it was on the list of graduating seniors, and by the time I found out and called them to correct it the diplomas had probably already been printed, so I got just a piece of paper at graduation. And for some reason, when I did call them to correct it, instead of correcting the name, they just typed it in again, so my name appeared twice in the commencement program. Heh.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Lucky us, that we've got names that are hard to spell/pronounce. *sigh*