Pet peeve

[Meenah]

Baby was eventually discovered to be his cousin's kid.

Families, gotta love em (not). Do you have to see them at family functions? If so, that must be strange,

My biggest pet peeve is people who cannot seem to spell my first name correctly. It's one that can be an "i", "ie" or a "y". I'm an "ie" and if you spell it with an "i" it's really not my name. It drives me nuts. How come the chick at Starbucks can spell it right but my SIL just cannot seem to be bothered? How hard is it really to remember?

[diggitydot]

We rarely see anyone from his side of the family at functions since we live 2,000 miles away from them. I think it's weirder for them when we are around than it is for DH since he doesn't give much of a rip about the family members who almost disowned him, including his own mother.

We're far closer with my family and DH's dad (the dis-owners were all on MIL's side). And conveniently, both DH's dad and my family live with 10 minutes of each other -- and 4 hours away from MIL's side of he clan.

[SoonerTexan]

Another pet peeve. Addressing cards to Dr and Mrs. Grrrrrrr. I'm a freaking doctor too!

That's why I went above and beyond to find out the correct way to put my in-laws names on our wedding invitation (the consensus was "Doctors Lastname" btw)--I always feel like MIL get's the shaft since she gave up her career to be with the kids and she should at least get this. Weird thing is...she didn't seem to care all that much--maybe she was just trying not to be a pain?

[Thirteen]

My biggest pet peeve is people who cannot seem to spell my first name correctly. It's one that can be an "i", "ie" or a "y". I'm an "ie" and if you spell it with an "i" it's really not my name. It drives me nuts. How come the chick at Starbucks can spell it right but my SIL just cannot seem to be bothered? How hard is it really to remember?

*smile* I feel you... I always just spell mine first. But you know what? Even THEN my name is sometimes not spelled correctly.
I also get my name mispronounced all the time. It's phonetic. Say it as it sounds. And it doesn't have any weird spellings or anything. Le sigh.

[diggitydot]

I get the name issue, too. My first name is also one of those could-be y, ie, or i -- and is regularly misspelled, even though it's spelled the most common way.

Also, our last name looks like it should be pronounced differently than it is. People should simply ask how to pronounce names they're unfamiliar with instead of making shit up. Or, my other fave -- commenting on the nationality of a last name without the slightest idea WTH they're talking about. DH's dad is Native American and during the Christianization of NW tribes, some of his ancestors took biblical first and last names. So, while DH's heritage is American Indian, our last name is Middle Eastern.

[MissCrabette]

*smile* I feel you... I always just spell mine first. But you know what? Even THEN my name is sometimes not spelled correctly.
I also get my name mispronounced all the time. It's phonetic. Say it as it sounds. And it doesn't have any weird spellings or anything. Le sigh.

I'm used to this by now and I expect that people will get it wrong. I only threw a hissy fit when my FIL called me "Christine" after having known me for 5 years. If someone's writing down my name, I even say "Cristina, no H. C-R-I..."

[Chrisada]

I'm used to this by now and I expect that people will get it wrong. I only threw a hissy fit when my FIL called me "Christine" after having known me for 5 years. If someone's writing down my name, I even say "Cristina, no H. C-R-I..."

And I'm Christine and get Christina. In fact my parks pass for our city has "Christina" on it.

I spell mine out every time I have to give it and it still gets put down as K.R.I. Or people say "are you sure it's not K.R.I.?". I am thinking of changing the spelling to the scandinavian Kjersti because then at least people would look twice!

Adrianne I am pretty sure I spelled your name with an "E" in the middle when I wrote your christmas card, but then changed it! And you think I would be especially careful given my own issues with my name!!

The Mr. and Dr. thing really bugs me too. My entire family address our cards to Mr and Mrs. Why do the formal if you are going to get it wrong? I tell them every year either do it right or just put R and K lastname!!

[MissCrabette]

Or people say "are you sure it's not K.R.I.?"

LOL! Pretty sure.

[MrsK]

I was so relieved that my married last name is more popular and easier to spell than my extemely unusual maiden name. (It's so rare that I can confidently say that anyone in the country with the same last name is a first, second, or third degree relative of mine.) Yet people constantly mispronounce my married name, misspell it, mistake it for my first name, and insist that they know people "with the exact same name except it is pronounced and spelled differently." It never bothered me when people got my maiden name wrong but I guess that's because I always looked forward to changing it when I married.

[diggitydot]

I used to work with a guy named Waleed (sounds like Wah-leed). We always knew when someone called in asking for "Wally", "Whitney", "Allen" or any other name of someone who didnt work there, it was for him. And every time he called someone it went like this: "Hello, this I Waleed from XYZ, may I please speak with So-and-so? Yes, XYZ...Waleed. W-A-L-E-E-D..."

Every call.

[alison]

We goofed when we named dd. She's forever going to be called "Maya."

[Vanquisher]

My name is universally spelled the same. However, that doesn't stop people from spelling it stupidly. Just this week, I got "Hydiee." I can not make this shit up. Seriously?

No one can pronounce my last name. It's not that hard. Can you say bureau or beau? Yet, I constantly get "Mrs. Lamoreee... Aaaa....youuu...exxxx?" Um, no. "Are you French?". No, I took my husband's last name. I am sure his great, great, great, great grandafther probably was though. I'm from Utah.

Oh, and people call me Heather a lot. Whats up with that? My whole life, people have called me Heather.

Whatever. My name rocks. Well, my last name rocks. Wish I didn't have to share it with my MIL.


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[L.Jane]

Haha @ Hydiee!!!! .

lol yeah. My name is biblical. Its amazing how screwed up it can get. But my mother was so drugged up after having me when she put my name on the birth certificate that she spelled my middle name wrong. We have just gone with it.