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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.

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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)

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

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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.

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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...

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Since you said that it's not Spanish, I will guess Portugues.

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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

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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...

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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:

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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)

[edit]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:

[/edit]

Dave

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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")

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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".

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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.

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

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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. :)