Proper Spelling of team or people's names

[Kyle Love]

If your team has a name that is not so ordinary or you have a member that has a not so ordinary name, please post their names here. I have noticed there is a mass misspelling of some "house-hold FIRST names" such as, Woody Flowers instead of Woodie Flowers. So please post your teams proper spelling here so people will spell it correctly.

My teams name it the Technokats...with a K not a C :)
other names I have to add are
Woodie Flowers
Dean Kamen

Who else has a unique team name?

[Corey Balint]

My mom cant seem to grasp the concept of Robotix.

She made a few signs for the team this year with spellings of: Robotixs, and Robitix.

[Lisa Rodriguez]

R.A.G.E. technically, although we may not always type it that way, it is actually an acronym for Robotics And Gadget Engineering

As for me, my name is Lisa.....Rodriguez....so many ways to spell it, best time was when the told the airline the wrong spelling (after my brother had been on the team 4 years, and my 2nd w/ a one year overlap)

[Alex Cormier]

The first few years i saw some crazy spelling for our team's name SparX.
SparkXs, SparXks, Sparks, SparXz. we wanted to have some Xerox in there.

[Clark Gilbert]

My teams name it the Technokats...with a K not a C :)

Misplacing a K with a C isn't too bad.

We've seen TechnoKaps
http://img29.echo.cx/img29/4457/technokaps9gj.jpg

and TechnoRats

[Billfred]

I guess we're lucky--there's only so many ways to type "D5 Robotics," and all of them still look somewhat right.

Leverette, on the other hand...(faints)

[Arefin Bari]

W00t...

SigmaC@Ts 108

[Ken Patton]

Here in yak-town (Pontiac), we spell Huskie without the y. Don't know why, but thats the way we have kept it even though its maybe not correct.

Ken

[Dorienne]

People can never spell my name.

Dorienne Plait.

Not Doriene, not Dorie, not Dory, not Dora, not Doreen, etc...

And it's not Platt, Plaitt, Plate, Plat, or any other funky name you come up with.

[xzvrw2]

My last name is always gets misspelled...Alvarado. I have seen it Alvrdo, Alvorodo, Alvorado, Elverado, and the list could go on. And my real name (not nickname) Stephen is said like Stefen not Steven.

[Karthik]

For some strange reason, people always seem to spell my last name incorrectly. I'm not really sure why.

[AIBob]

No one ever knows how to spell or pronounce Hauppauge.

Pronounce it 'Hop*Ogg' or 'Hoppog' or 'Hop*Pog' or 'Hopog', not 'Hop pow gee' nor 'How pow gee'
Spell it 'HAUPPAUGE'

[Denman]

For some strange reason, people always seem to spell my last name incorrectly. I'm not really sure why.
wierd that eh :p



Systemetric - Not Systematic, or Systemic, or Sypnatic or anything like that.... We use the Metric System, So Systemetric

[xzvrw2]

Oh and another thing, team 71 is Team Hammond not Beatty. And it is spelled Beatty for all those that spell it something like Baty.

[Kyle]

MOE stands for Miracle Of Engineering

Our team name is The Miracle Workerz

[Koko Ed]

The first few years i saw some crazy spelling for our team's name SparX.
SparkXs, SparXks, Sparks, SparXz. we wanted to have some Xerox in there.
How about that announcer at least years exhibiiton who called your team Spar-X?

[Daniel Brim]

This really bugs me. People manage to mispell my last name. Brim. How hard is that?

Oh yeah...
Kanagasabapathy

(didn't copy). You can almost fit 4 of my last name in there.

[DarkJedi613]

No one ever knows how to spell or pronounce Hauppauge.

Pronounce it 'Hop*Ogg' or 'Hoppog' or 'Hop*Pog' or 'Hopog', not 'Hop pow gee' nor 'How pow gee'
Spell it 'HAUPPAUGE'
Thank god the announcer knew us from last year. :D

Besides that people mispell my last name all the time - Cloak, Clocke, Cloack, etc. :ahh:

[Bridgette]

I cannot tell you how many times people have misspelled my name. Bridget, Brigitte, etc, etc. And people never hear my last name (Blight) right either. Somehow people always think it's Blake.

[StephLee]

Our team's name this year was the Garrett Coalition...not Garett, not Garret, not Garet. And contrary to popular belief, we are from MARYLAND, not West Virginia.

Our driver's name is almost never spelled right: it's Erik, not Eric or any of the many other ways to spell it. And our human player's last name isn't spelled right a lot of the time; it's Storck, like the bird.

It's not a misspelling, but almost everyone on the team has called me Sarah at one time or another...Sarah is the other girl on the team, but since there are only two of us, you'd think they'd remember who was who... :D

[MissInformation]

Epsilon Delta, but you'll do just fine if you call us ED.

I try to get people to spell my first name correctly by telling them to remember one of the golden rules of spelling: It's "i" before "e" except after "c" with exceptions like weird and Heidi. Hey, it helps me remember how to spell it...

Heidi

[Alex Pelan]

I've never really had a problem with my name spelled wrong, or my team name, they're all relatively simple. Pronunciation, on the other hand...

Not "Pay-Lin"
Not "Pell-in"
"Peel-in"

Like peelin a banana. People always seem to get it after I say that.

[TheShadow]

I don't think my last name has ever been spelled or pronounced right by someone on their first try... It's "Uwl-man" not "Yell-man" or "Yule-man" or "Almond" or anything else. So far the grossest misspelling was Olhman...but usually the second 'n' is left off. It gets kind of annoying

[tiffany34990]

and really S.P.A.M. should be spelt with the periods in between so yeah...
(i will admit don't always do that at times but politcally correct it is S.P.A.M. not spam)

my own personal name..not hard so i can't complain...

but this year our robot if u can't spell it well or say it..i'm sorry...but it is El Chupacabra

[Travis Hoffman]

If your team has a name that is not so ordinary or you have a member that has a not so ordinary name, please post their names here. I have noticed there is a mass misspelling of some "house-hold FIRST names" such as, Woody Flowers instead of Woodie Flowers. So please post your teams proper spelling here so people will spell it correctly.

My teams name it the Technokats...with a K not a C :)
other names I have to add are
Woodie Flowers
Dean Kamen

Who else has a unique team name?

Our team name isn't unique, but it IS an acronym.

It's Delphi E.L.I.T.E., not ELITE or, even worse, Elite

Encouraging Learning in Technology and Engineering


Karthik Kan-a-gas-a-bap-a-thy, not that anybody bothers ever stating his last name.

[evulish]

Luckily with a robot name of 'Chuck,' the team doesn't run into misspellings or mispronunciations very often. I don't see/hear our team name WATTNESS enough to remember any mess-ups with it except maybe an excluded T, and I doubt anyone here even knows what it stands for. :) My name 'Grant Harding' doesn't usually get confused. I think I've been called Gran and Graham before, but that's about it. Oh, and the occasional letter from the Army addressed to Grom Jording.

[Matt Attallah]

heh...

Even my own team members can't seem to keep my name spelled right.

Maher Ibrahim Attallah.

So many t-shirts with a 't' here or 'l' missing or an 'i'. I kinda like it actucally - it makes it unique! :D

[Goobergunch]

Pyne has four letters in it, and no instances of "a" or "i". I don't even want to know how many times I've heard "Martin Payne" or "Martin Pine" or some strange variant thereof. Especially from official-ish documents (once even from NASA). :eek:

[kjohnson]

When scouts would come around in Atlanta and ask questions many would ask our team's name. Southampton Indian Robotics. Not too hard... but I was the one answering questions, and its my own team so I say the name fast - I don't think any of the scouts understood what I said. "Could you spell that?" So I just started handing out our flyers.

And the most common mis-spelled name for our team is "Southampton." It only has one H even though its pronounced "South Hampton."

[CourtneyB]

i hate when some people pronounce my name "Courney"...liek when its really "CourTney" lol but its really not a problem because i just have everyone call me Court or Balcer.

[Amanda Aldridge]

hrm....one of my pet peeves:rolleyes:

My last name is Aldridge, not:
-Alrige
-Eldridge
-Alrich
-Eldrich
-Alderidge
-Ostrich

or any other variation thereof. And yes, someone seriously once thought my last name was Ostrich. They were either deaf or not to bright.

[miketwalker]

I've seen many people spell my name Micheal. Drives me nuts.

Plus, many people (including teammates) do all sorts of spelling to our team name:
ComBAAT
ComBATT
ComBAT
CommBAT
GC2B'SAT <- (yes, that's a real misspelling that was done by the lovely people at Publix while making us a team cake that should've stated "Go ComBBAT!" and when we received it, it said that)

The proper spelling is ComBBAT. (the BBAT stands for Boeing, Brevard Community College, Astronaut High School, Titusville High School)

[Denman]

oh yes, we are teaM 759 , not I59, as the guys who made us a giant cookie at Millies in town put...

[Andy A.]

My name is Andrew Robert Alvarenga. It's not difficult to spell or pronounce (its phonetic!), yet people manage. the biggest mistake is to try a Spanish accent or spelling with it.

It's not Spanish, I don't speak Spanish, and I really don't like Mexican food. People still don't get it. It's hard being the only kid in New Hampshire who got his 'join the army' junk mail in Spanish, just because of his last name.

Anyone who can actually guess the nationality of Alvarenga right gets a cookie from me.

On the upside, it means the Andy B. is always going to be second place to me in any alphabetical list. w00t.

Additionally, my team, 95, is called the grasshoppers. Not the crickets or locusts. Grasshoppers people. No one ever suspects grasshoppers.

-Andy A.

p.s. Even the spell checker wants to change my name to 'Alvarez'. Maybe I should just give up.

[AmyPrib]

If your team has a name that is not so ordinary or you have a member that has a not so ordinary name, please post their names here. I have noticed there is a mass misspelling of some "house-hold FIRST names" such as, Woody Flowers instead of Woodie Flowers. So please post your teams proper spelling here so people will spell it correctly.

My teams name it the Technokats...with a K not a C :)


Kyle - I thought we were the TechnoKats... :)

And, not that anyone's tried, but.. how about.. Przybylinski.. Hence, the "Prib" in AmyPrib... don't let that 'z' trick you into pronouncing it...

edit- for numbers that pop up in everyday places... my 292nd post - our buddies at Western...

[Greg Ross]

Anyone who can actually guess the nationality of Alvarenga right gets a cookie from me.
Since you said that it's not Spanish, I will guess Portugues.

[Greg Needel]

people have had problems with my last name since i was really young so i have just accepted it but just for the record

it is pronounced "knee-dell" not needle

but it doesn;t bother me as much as it did when i was little

[Matt Krass]

Sorry to revive an old thread, I meant to post this a while ago.

I've heard that we've been called "Sack Hem Aftershock" it's really "Sachem Aftershock" (Say-chuh-em) and as far as my name, well, I get a lot of people saying Krauss, it's Krass, rhymes with Grass. I thought it was hard to mispronounce Matt, but I get called Mott Krauss almost daily, oy. I am not German Applesauce...

[Elgin Clock]

Oh you know I have to chime in on this one.

2 crazy names, both of which have been done so wrong to me by so many.

Elgin It is pronounced L - Gin *like the drink (should really be a j - sounds like a J)
People pronounce it Algin, Elgum, Eglin, Elrod (as a running joke), Elgin *like ginsu knives* (darn you Dez & Fin!!)
It's been spelled wrong so many times it's not even funny.
The best were Elfin, Elfgin, (darn F & G keys are right next to each other on the keyboard as a cruel twist of fate) UELGIN (yes I am :) ) & Elain - One little letter replacing the G makes me a female to the marketing world, and I keep getting flyers from Fashion Bug to go buy some spring dresses on sale.. :sigh:

Clock - Pronounced the way every other clock you own that keeps time is pronounced, but people still have trouble with this one.
Have been pronounced Cloak, Click, Clark *the most popular one*

Has been massacred in spelling as well.
Clok, Klock, Kloc, and on more than one occasion they have dropped the L from the name keeping the rest of the letters..
Yeah, it was announced that way at an awards ceremony too.. :ahh: oops.
Oh yeah, who can forget the last name BLOCK on my airline ticket we noticed at the airport on the way to Nats in 2001, thankfully post-9/11 so there wasn't a huge holdup at the line trying to explain that one.

And my name is synonymous to ridicule, and disbelief.. to the extent that if you make fun of my name, chances are I have heard it a million times before.

No, I am not related to the people with the LAST NAME Elgin who make the clocks.. yeah.. wish I was.

No, I have never been to Elgin, Ill for that matter, home of the Elgin Clock company and the name to pretty much every other business in that town as well as the town itself. :rolleyes:

No, My brother is not Timex, quartz, or indiglo..
Although, I was born in a city in CT which is the home of a watch and clock museum.
Maybe I'll go there and sneak my picture in a display case there someday. Who knows.

No, my name is not the same as that Air Force Base, that is named Eglin.

No, I have never written to any companies that are named Elgin especially the clock company looking for freebies, or asking to be their spokesman as Ogre (Jeff) from 173 suggested (Although, that is really not a bad idea.) :D

Yes, I do know who Elgin Baylor is. (If you don't you're not older than me)
Yes, I do know that the singer Ginuwine's real name is Elgin.
Yes, I do know street sweepers have my name on it.


I think that may cover about 75% of the name issue for me.

<And to top it all off, CD hates my name even though I have been a member here since early to mid 2001 and spell check's my name to be El Gin, Elfin, or El-Gin>

What a cruel world... :yikes:

[MrToast]

People get my last name wrong so often that I've thought about getting my name legally changed just so I don't have to deal with it anymore:

Dave DeLong <<Capital L, no space!!

8)

And by the way, I used to live on Sweet Farm Road, not Sweat Farm, not Sweet Fram, not Sweet Farn! Sweet Farm!

And another funny misnomer incident: My dad got a letter once addressed to "Capt. Dr. R. Peter P. DeLong Jr. Jr." At least they got the last name right. :ahh:



Dave

[65_Xero_Huskie]

Huskie brigade
----
With an "ie" not a "y"


And people spell my name wrong.

My name is Mathew Doll
(Strange last name and Mathew with only 1 "T")

[Taylor]

The first draft on our team logo looked like "CyberCarps" - an error that has since been changed.
No announcer at any regionals wanted to call us the CyberCards last year. We were Southport High School Robotics Team (not necessarily incorrect, but also not as cool); we were CyBearCards (which was understandable given the CyBearCats were there too), the CyberCats, CyberCads, and CyberCars. I think someone at WMR finally got it right.

And don't get me started on "Indianapolis".

[EricH]

I thought I had it bad. You'd think that Husmann would not be hard to spell. Yeah, right.
I've heard or seen the following:
Hussman (the most common)
Hussmann
Houseman
Jusmen (the closest spanish spelling)
Gusman (another misspelling)
Huseman (on my school ID that was a semester late)

Actual pronunciation: hard H, long U (should sound like HOO-smann). the name itself is German.

And with my first name--few get it right the first time. All the usual K/C mixups at the end--and I've even been called by the feminine version once.

[Jaime65]

Our team is the HUSKIE BRIGADE many people spell it HUSKY BRIGADE

[Katie Reynolds]

My high school team (93) is the NEW Apple Corps. It's pronounced "New Apple Core" (like, an apple core ... get it?) but it's still spelled "Corps". And yes, "NEW" is capitalized - not to put emphasis on the word, but because it's an acronym standing for North, East, West (the three high schools that participate).

Now I'm on Superior Roboworks. It's not Superior Robotworks, Super Roboworks or even Super Robotworks! For simplicity, we just call ourselves The Yetis.

And my name ... Katie Reynolds. It's not:

Kati
Kate
Katy
Katee
Kadee
Kady
Caite
Caty
Cady
Katheryn
Katherine
Catherine
Catheryn

... it's just Katie, like it says on my birth certificate. In high school, I was at a job interview and the interviewer looked at my application and said, "Sorry, you need to put your full, given name here." and pointed to the spot where I had written "Katie L. Reynolds". I told him it was my full name and he said, "No no - what does your birth certificate say?" I told him it said exactly what I wrote. He said, "Your parents named you Katie? Not Katherine or Kathy or ..." He just wouldn't believe that my given name was Katie!

And my last name is not:

Renolds
Rynolds
Raynolds
Rinolds

... it's just Reynolds. :)

[Jay H 237]

237's team name is "Sie-H2O-Bots", not "Show-Bots"! It's pronounced "See-Hoe-Bots", just like Elgin has it spelled out in his profile to remind people.

My first name is legally "Jason" although some people don't even know that. I have seen it spelled "Jayson" though once. Other than that I don't think that name is easy to butcher.

Most people call me "Jay" though thinking that is my real (legal) name but I've been called that for as long as I can remember and the one I normally go by since everyone knows me as that. I did have a new receptionist at work keep paging me as "Renee Hartmann"! Atleast it rhymed with "Jay".:rolleyes:

My last name is "Hartmann" and that's been spelled wrong many times. I've seen "Heartmann", "Heartman", "Hartman", "Hartmen", of a few variations. Very close but no cigar.

[Alexa Stott]

I have always had issues with my name. My full first name is Alexandra, so, over the years, I've been called a variety of things--Alex, Alexia, Lexy, Lexa, Lex, Alexy, Alex, Alexandria. I always tell people I simply prefer "Alexa," though some still haven't quite grasped that concept.

Also, my last name is "Stott," not Stout, Stot, or Scott.

[Mister_Juggles]

My last name is "Levine." It's not actually that uncommon, but I get "luh-'vine" pronounciations ALL the time. I actually have a friend who wrote a song about me and his band recorded it and sent me a copy, and they mispronounced it throughout the entire thing :rolleyes: It's "Luh-'veen."

Oh, there's a freshman this year, her name is Chiath...Chaita...Chiatanya..Ch.... Oh, nevermind.

[DonRotolo]

It is spelled Luxury Yacht, but pronounced "Throat Warbler Mangrove".
2 points to whomever gets the reference.

We've had folks call us the T-O-Neers, clearly having never seen a lowercase Pi.

Don

[Compnerd]

Headrick not Hendrick... People drive me insane when they say Hendrick

[Cody Carey]

It is spelled Luxury Yacht, but pronounced "Throat Warbler Mangrove".
2 points to whomever gets the reference.

We've had folks call us the T-O-Neers, clearly having never seen a lowercase Pi.

Don


He needed a bit Lopped off his nose... Python for the win.