[MK Chris]

That'd be good if his surname was 'Chips'.

[Munki Bhoy]

I want the sweet Irish kid to win.

He'll just be glad you can't text names to win any more. Most of the UK couldn't spell Eoghan.

Surely with any name or word that isn't spelled exactly as its written, no one could spell it unless they had seen it written down first, or been told?

Very few people ask. Most will assume how to spell something. So if people hear that he is called Eoghan, here they will assume it is spelled Owen.

I get it all the time. Most people assume my name is Chris. Which funnily enough, is NOT spelled the way it is said (which is what I am assuming you meant).

[Munki Bhoy]

That'd be good if his surname was 'Chips'.

I remember World Cup 98, opening day. We'd lost to Brazil in the opening game and the other two teams in our group were Norway and Morocco. It finished 2-2, but it was on Fantasy Football the following day about how two of the scorers for one of the teams were "Eggen" and "Chippo". I think it spawned an entire segment of the show for the rest of the world cup where people would join two names together and come up with great combinations. "Koker" and "Kohler" was probably the best one, though the one that always stuck in my mind was "Rekdal" and "Salami". Probably because there wasn't a guy called "Thermometer".

[foot-loose]

Most people assume my name is Chris. Which funnily enough, is NOT spelled the way it is said (which is what I am assuming you meant).

How do you spell Chris without it looking like how it is said? Kris? Cris? Cjress? Cress? Kriss?

[Yudster]

Very few people ask. Most will assume how to spell something.

Thats the exact opposite of my experience. I have a name which is not only familiar to pretty much everyone, but spelled exactly as it is said - and I always find people ask how to spell it.

[Nicola_Red]

In my job I find people with the most obvious, common surnames will spell them out for me ("Smith", "King" etc) yet the ones with the longest, most foreign names (like Polish ones with no vowels in them) will just say their name and then expect you to know how to spell it, making me feel like an idiot for having to ask.

[Yudster]

I also find that the more ridiculous a person's name, the more crap their enunciation. People with tricky names mumble.

[MK Chris]

I tend to spell my surname to people, otherwise they usually mistake the 'c' for an 's'. Which, obviously, is a large insult. I hate my surname anyway.

[Munki Bhoy]

Most people assume my name is Chris. Which funnily enough, is NOT spelled the way it is said (which is what I am assuming you meant).

How do you spell Chris without it looking like how it is said? Kris? Cris? Cjress? Cress? Kriss?

I meant that when you say "Chris" you don't pronounce the H. I would suggest that Kris or Cris are closer to how the word is actually pronounced than Chris and that one of those two would be what you would guess if you had never seen the word written down.

It only amuses me because I have a Polish surname and most people assume that is the one that cause problems. It doesn't, people always ask how to spell that. Yet they assume they know how to spell my first name.

[Yudster]

But surely its fairly reasonable to assume that most people DO know how to spell Chris?

[Nicola_Red]

I tend to spell my surname to people, otherwise they usually mistake the 'c' for an 's'. Which, obviously, is a large insult. I hate my surname anyway.

I chose my own surname so I love it, but I didn't anticipate how often I would need to spell it out to people and how often they'd still get it wrong. It's the fact that it's two words - both words are common enough names with accepted spellings, but the putting them together seems to confuse people, and they either sever my name in half or just produce one new nonsensical name out of the two.

[MK Chris]

As well as the more common 'c' and 's' mix-up, people have also been known to spell my surname 'Wells' and (rather more amusingly) 'Wench' - which my colleagues got quite a bit of mileage from.

[Nicola_Red]

See, people are imbeciles. Welch and welsh just don't sound the same!

[Zoot]

I always get either Mr 'Hawks' or Mr 'Hank'

[Andy B]

I lie and tell people my surname is Bee I just tell them "Like the insect" although the call centres in India still have trouble with that as well.

Bloody foreigners!

[S4B]

But surely its fairly reasonable to assume that most people DO know how to spell Chris?

Assumption, my dear Yuds, is the mother of all * ups, it makes an ass of you and me!

[foot-loose]

S4B.

Shut the * up.

[S4B]

Why?!! Who died and made you god? *looks about for Andy B*

[catherine]

The first part of my last name rhymes with fart...Fartland hate it.

[MK Chris]

Hahaha.

Thanks.

[Boboff]

I worked with a Sales chap whose name was Wanklyn.

My surname is Marks, and I do get some funny responses to the stock description, yes, Marks, as in skid.

[Munki Bhoy]

To differentiate from Marx, as in Karl. Or Richard. Obviously.

[Boboff]

I just like to think they are picturing a brown stain in their undercrakers on the shower room floor that morning, and remembering they must pick them up before Mum/Wife/Husband/Domestic Assistant gets round to it.

They are more likely I suppose to be thinking of rubber remains on a road after the accident that killed their grandson... still makes me laugh.

[Andy B]

How about "as in ...Marks and Sparks"?

[S4B]

Marks and Sparks"?

Don't swear at me! I'm so angry with them at the minute after their rude member of staff told me that the shoes I had bought were not actually faulty after the rubber on the heels came off after 3 days and in fact I am "a bit heavy to be wearing kitten heels". Now I know I'm big but I think this is going a little too far, I'm not that huge AND I wasn't aware that shoes came with a weight restriction.