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How about that announcer at least years exhibiiton who called your team Spar-X?

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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.

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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:

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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:

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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."

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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.