This song came on the radio today and I thought of this thread :3
My last name gets a bunch of incorrect variations. Delasaurus is a common pronunciation, which apparently means I'm one of Del's reptilian ancestors from ages long since past.
I used to get "Christina" and "Kristin" a lot when I was younger (back then I looked very androgynous and had long hair) and now I get "Tristan" or my personal favorite "Cameron" from a friend who said I looked like his friend Cameron.
My last name is really easy to spell and pronounce and people still mess it up.
Xenogears is the tragic story of how your whole life can take a crappy turn, just because you happened to see a lady in a wedding dress before her wedding.
This boy is crackin' up, this boy has broken down
This boy is crackin' up, this boy has broke down
People always mispronouce my name or forget the a. I always get people spelling it with a ia which makes no sense.
people never know what to call me when they first meet me at work or something since my name is Robert and no one calls me Robert. I go by Bob. Bobby is fine, Robert I can deal with but I HATE Rob and Robby. Lots of people tell me I don't look like a Bob. Most people are fine with my last name but once in awhile foreign people will pronounce it "Hoe" instead of "How" since it has the e on the end.
Some of my younger kids have terrible Chinese children voices, and thus call me what can only be written as "Ah-smurf".![]()
my great-grandma (who has Alzheimer's, bless her heart) calls me Kara. Besides that, people assume it's Carrie or Keri. Terry has also been a common mispronunciation.
You have to try very hard or be incredibly daft to get my first name wrong. My last name is easy, being that it is a common word in the everyday English language, but people still manage to smurf that one up.
When I worked in a kindergarden, kids would often call me Stråle instead of Ståle. Stråle means ray, like in a ray of light, like from the sun or whatever.
Not sure if that counts.
everything is wrapped in gray
i'm focusing on your image
can you hear me in the void?
My name always gets put down as Ashley instead of Ashleigh.
Or occasionally even Aisling.
When I answer the phone, I get "Steven" a lot. Cesar... Steven? I mean... maybe if I slurred a little, but I typically don't. I usually repeat my name once or twice before I just cave and go "yeah, sure, Steven, what can I do for you?"