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Anyone ever mishear your name for something else?

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Lé.Skiing
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I get it all the time. My name is Martin and often people mishear it as Mark. I think even a few times people thought my name was Markin.

So NS, tell me what do people often mishear your name as?





(not sure if a thread like this has been done before, Tried searching for something like it, but I couldn't find anything though.)
10 years ago
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.Hugo.
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My name is Kyle and people sometimes think i say tyler
10 years ago
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crotchvent
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Lots of people read/spell my name as copper but it's cooper.
10 years ago
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crotchvent
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Lots of people read/spell my name as copper but it's cooper.
10 years ago
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Aidan-G
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I hear Adam a lot


also my friend's name is Hayden so we often don't know which one of us people are talking to
10 years ago
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connecticunt
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One of the permanent subs in my high school used to call me Mckinley (Mackenzie).

I've also been called Kinsley a lot. Especially across the pond.

I don't really get it though. Mackenzie is a pretty popular name.
10 years ago
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corona
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my name is Vincent but people mishear it all the time and call me "faggot" or "asshole"
10 years ago
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byubound
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My name is Cayden and I get called caleb and Braden all the time.
10 years ago
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fresh_prince
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VinnieFmy name is Vincent but people mishear it all the time and call me "faggot" or "asshole"


my name is faggotasshole, but people often mishear it all the time and call me "Vincent" or "Vinnie"
10 years ago
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Powstagram
Posts: 250 - Karma: 2,564
People have managed to get Tom from Ed, like wtf how does Ed sound anything like Tom
10 years ago
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Spagett+
Posts: 3499 - Karma: 14,884
Lots of people think my name is Al but it is actually dickhead.
10 years ago
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_____alfredo____
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my name is bitchard but people always hear richard
10 years ago
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Espen519
Posts: 552 - Karma: 969
My name is Espen, but people ALWAYS say Aspen if they don't know me/just heard my name
10 years ago
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cool_name
Posts: 4295 - Karma: 3,136
You guys don't have your real name as your usernames
10 years ago
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yungcigsmoker
Posts: 785 - Karma: 5,922
I HATE when people call me Billy or bill.
10 years ago
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Tinga
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I've been introducing myself as Tinga for the last couple years. No one hears it right.
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Lé.Skiing
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PowstagramPeople have managed to get Tom from Ed, like wtf how does Ed sound anything like Tom


Today someone called me tom for the first time. hahaha It was funny cause the conversation went kind of like this(keep in mind now a days if someone gets my name wrong I don't even care anymore, and I just go with it now rather then keep correcting people):

Other person:"Tom, was it?"
Me"Martin"
Other person:"Alright, see you later mark"
Me:(thinks to himself for a quick second"close enough") "Have a good day"

hahaha
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yungcigsmoker
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Lé.SkiingToday someone called me tom for the first time. hahaha It was funny cause the conversation went kind of like this(keep in mind now a days if someone gets my name wrong I don't even care anymore, and I just go with it now rather then keep correcting people):

Other person:"Tom, was it?"
Me"Martin"
Other person:"Alright, see you later mark"
Me:(thinks to himself for a quick second"close enough") "Have a good day"

hahaha


You should go by Marty
10 years ago
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Steezy_IN_KC
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My name is Connor. I get Collin, Chris, Corbin....
The thing that really amazes me is how people spell my name in an email.

They always spell it Conner. Or think my last name is my first name. (Ronan) my work email is my first name and then the company...

Now I go by CR at work.
10 years ago
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soulskier
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Jim isn't that hard to fuck up but I still get Tim and Kim
10 years ago
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stinky_cheese
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taco bell always messes up my name, they mistake boon for bill

i just say my name is charlie now whenever i go, i just got sick of being called bill
10 years ago
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selfiejesus
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people call me sabrina and sierra and siana (serena), or just by my last name with "little" in front of it.

in grade 8, someone couldn't pronounce my name, so they called me senerma. and then it evolved from there and the same person will call me epidermis, which is the outer layer of cells covering an organism.

i have a coworker named Serandon (pronounced like brandon), and people just butcher her name so much, it's come to the point where it's a competition within my coworkers to see the weirdest version of her name we can come up with. we're at serenadon now.
10 years ago
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Plankton
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my names will so i just hear it a lot, haha
10 years ago
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GregFlik
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My name is Gregory, but I go by Greg and I get Craig, and when they think it's Craig they do that "HEYYYY CRAIIGGGG" thing from the movie "Friday". I die a little bit on the inside every time.
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lgski
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My name is Mitch

I cant tell you how many times people have thought i called them a bitch when they ask me what my name is. really unbelievable. one time in gym class back in middle school, my friend got sent to the principals office because we were playing soccer and he screamed my name. The sub thought he yelled "bitch" at a girl haha
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Casey
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My name is Casey and people always hear Jason
10 years ago
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stoggieman
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I get Blake instead of Mike all the time. I should probably annunciate.
10 years ago
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notspoicey
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My full name is Virginia but sometimes I hear Vagina
10 years ago
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annex_
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my name's chelsea but i've get Kelsey all the time, as well as casey, i've also ben called chloe. Some other good ones but i can't remember them now
10 years ago
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theabortionator
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Rusty to dusty
10 years ago
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Davin
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My name is Davin. Same way as saying Gavin but with a D. So naturally I get Gavin alllll the time. I correct people and they are like yah, Gavin... Also people say David or Dave-in.
10 years ago
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KZA
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My name is Kyle. The only name people mistake mine for is Todd. I must look like a fucking Todd or something because they sound nothing alike but I've never been mistaken for something else.
10 years ago
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Titus69
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Last week I was helping a family move furniture from their dead mothers house and I introduced myself and one of the guys who was clearly baked and in his mid 30s asked if my name was Pollen....my name is Collin
10 years ago
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yangumane
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my name is John but people confuse it for Juan all the time

I don't correct them
10 years ago
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Master_drifter
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My name is Tim..but people call me hiter. Wtf Hitler doesnt even sound like Tim
10 years ago
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iFlip
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MTNSI HATE when people call me Billy or bill.


How's it going Billy?
10 years ago
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Krotchs_Brother
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People don't know my name. They just call me Krotch's Brother.
10 years ago
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Peter.
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my name is peter, but i go by pete. trying to tell someone that your name is pete in a loud bar or loud area is tough since it's only one syllable. i just get a lot of "what?"
10 years ago
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Lé.Skiing
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MTNSYou should go by Marty


I go by whatever people decide to call me now. hahaha

I remember one night I met up with an entire group of random people I didn't know and the whole night everyone was calling me mark. I thought it would be rude to correct them after a certain point and just rolled with it. hahaha
10 years ago
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rballs_
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My name is Adolf and people always call me Fuhrer, like wtf???
10 years ago
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Daph
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Almost everyone calls me Daph instead of Daphne and when little kids yell dad I always think they're talking to me
10 years ago
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Chubz.
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My names josh so it doesnt really happen to me
10 years ago
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Casey
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YoungDaphAlmost everyone calls me Daph instead of Daphne and when little kids yell dad I always think they're talking to me



haha, when people say "in case he" like if someone was talking and said, "just in case he changes his mind." it always catches my attention
10 years ago
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profa_212
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my name is Ryan....and about 50% of the time people say Brian. If they don't really matter I don't correct them lol.

My English teacher called me Riley for almost the entire semester before somebpdy told her. I really don't understand how because she had to look at my name and face every day to take attendance and put my grades in. Also, even weirder, she called me Ryan for the first 2 weeks before she switched to Riley.
10 years ago
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1kewldewd
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My name is boyd but a lot of people here floyd. One of my friends heard floyd when I just met him and I didn't realize he was calling me floyd for at least a month and buy that time I thought it was too ackward to correct him. He still thinks I am floyd to this day.
10 years ago
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robbinJAHood
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my name is savanah spelled with ONE N and people always spell it with 2. always get Hannah Anna or Samantha though
10 years ago
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corona
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savvy_skimy name is savanah spelled with ONE N and people always spell it with 2. always get Hannah Anna or Samantha though


did your parents want you to be a stripper?
10 years ago
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Blurst
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My name is Kent, people always hear me as Ken. Fuck the name Ken.
10 years ago
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robbinJAHood
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VinnieFdid your parents want you to be a stripper?


no I was born in the city lol but that's not where we live so it wasn't super corny lol
10 years ago
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CaptainObvious.
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savvy_skino I was born in the city lol


I've read this like 8 times trying to figure out how that's relevant to your parents' aspirations of your pole-dancing career.


....I can't find it though.
10 years ago
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RRhighrider
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My dogs name is Posey and my co worker thought I was calling is Pussy. Awkward
10 years ago
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