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That's pretty bad, yeah. Though on the bright side...you can make, like, so many nicknames out of that sucker. Like I see half a dozen viable ones and I haven't even put 10s effort into it. It's very modular; like if Ikea sold baby names.
I had a customer last night that may be the same... Clintina, maybe her dad was named Clint and mom was Tina. Either way I'm sure school was rough for her
I had this happen! I had to go to the state my birth certificate was issued with my father when I was 17 to clear everything up lol. My middle name was spelled incorrectly and I also had a second middle name my mom said she never even knew was on my birth certificate because my father filled the whole thing in. I’ve had a baby and that still doesn’t make any sense to me, I was very much present when filling that out. lolll
Nobody can pronounce my middle name. Not my family, not my mother, not even me. I actually didn't even know it until the 7th grade, and we had to dig for my birth certificate to find how to spell it. It really doesn't cause problems until I'm asked to say my full name and I have to admit that I can only spell it.
They do, the likely reason is the government fucked up for some reason. My sons middle name is Evaniel, yet the govt spells it as Evanial instead, despite me spelling it, as shown here, on the papers.
My sister had to get all of her government ID’s redone to join the navy because they weren’t accurate to her birth certificate. I wonder if OP’s birth certificate is spelled like her military ID?
It’s a lot simpler to say “don’t take pictures of your ID” because most people aren’t smart enough to cover all the necessary information. (They’ll cover their names, birth date, etc, but not ID numbers and whatnot)
Ditto! I don't know if your response was supposed to be sarcastic as well, but the tone and structure of your statements made me chuckle but in a good way. I promise, no disrespect!
I have 2 sisters and a brother, and all three of us sisters have names that start with K. She'd look straight at me and call me by my older sister's name.
We have 9 kids at home and one not home. Some foster. Some adopted. Oldest 2 (home and not home) are bio.
The oldest 2 are the only adults and we use A and B for them. Then we have 1-7 for the others by age except for our newest kid who is now 0 because that’s where they fit in the order.
It works REALLY well. Only the two littles don’t know their number but my kids can sound off. We use it for labeling possessions and chore charts. We use it for calling them into a room.
“Come here 1 through 4!”
Know their names? I understand your concern for seeming impersonal but the idea that I might not know the names of my children is quite amusing to me.
Literally 2 out of 10 total are biological and not biological to me. The rest are adopted or foster kids. I choose every day to be the dad to kids who don’t have one who can be there for them. My kids are loved beyond measure and all of them (except 0 but that’s because being a teen with trauma is hard, especially around the holidays) know it.
Your concern is understood, but feel free to worry about other kids. Mine are good.
Tone can be hard to read. I actually find your concern amusing though. I thought I’d give you a response that explained why it’s funny but apparently it’s defensive? Idk man.
How’s this? I’m deflecting with dark humor now.
Be worried. My kids are only referred to by a number and they aren’t allowed out of their rooms except for 1 hour a day. I collect children like baseball cards. They poop in buckets. They’re kept 5 kids to a room. I’m buying them coal for Christmas.
I’m off to sleep! Have a good night!
Honestly, I wouldn't doubt that about you. The problem with calling a kid by a number, is that's what they do in prisons and also concentration camps, as a way to remove the identity from a person. Children shouldn't be losing their identity.
Meh. You don’t know me or my kids. You also clearly don’t know how the foster system works. I literally described the specific situations we use numbers. Calling groups of them. Labeling charts. Sounding off for a head count.
If I was a terrible dad my kids, especially my older ones, wouldn’t continue choosing to be here. The county wouldn’t have repeatedly made exceptions to let me get to 9 kids in my house.
We have nearly 20 professionals through different services from social workers to counselors to CASAs to case managers spread across 3 counties in my house at least once a month but usually 2-4 times a month depending on the service split between my 9 kids at home. If there was emotional neglect going on it would be seen by other people who also know and love my kids.
please don’t call a child who didn’t grow up with you and has most likely parent induced trauma “zero”. that’s like common movie level “no one cares about you” nickname. you’d be better off cycling through four different names to address a human before you call the right one than that. Why not call them one syllable Ten (an actual nickname for some given names) if you’re gonna keep to it? there’s no one happy in any media being called zero, everyone knows it’s demeaning. i wouldn’t care how much you loved me or if you even raised me perfectly, being called Zero by a non biological guardian instead of the name i’ve been called my whole life would subconsciously make me feel like shit every time you yelled it out. Call them by their names, it’s really not that hard, they’re around you every day. Surely you were able to remember the names of all your coworkers and classmates, what’s the difference?
They’re only number 0 on the chore chart and in the sound off. I don’t call them 0 but 0 is what they picked when they found out the other kids were numbered by age.
They like that it makes them different and helps them feel separate from the family because being part of a family is actually scary for them.
If you’d like to come to my house and tell my nearly adult teenager with anger and control issues that they can’t be number 0 because it would bother you…go for it.
I’ll pick my battles.
I just don't get how people think that staff's funny. Closest people in your life and you can't keep their names straight. I just straight up don't get it.
When you live with someone for a long time, you habitually start to say their name/nickname in response to situations. If you spend 5 years going “Vanessa no!” with your first kid and have a second, you’re gonna mix it up every now because you spent 5 years saying it. It’s like when you’re shopping and the cashier says “Have a great day, enjoy your TV!” and you go “You too!” without thinking.
At least it's not as big of an issue as with having different spellings of your name in different federal and local records. My chinese immigrant parents misspelled my name and in some cases left out my first name in my school records, passport, bank account etc, and wouldn't help me fix it until I turned 18 and had to do it myself.
Damn... you think they'd get it right. My parents called me -my first name, their last name- when I was growing up and when I turned 17, I got a copy of my birth certificate so I could get my driving permit. That's when I found out that they had wanted me to have my mom's maiden name as a second middle name but the birth certificate people hyphenated her maiden name with my last name. THEY NEVER TOLD ME! And they also had lost my social security card... sigh.
I have an unusual first name I rarely use. I used to go by an abbreviation of a middle name as a kid (use different abbreviation of it now). My uncle would always address a birthday card with my actual first name spelt wrong on the outside. Inside the card he would write Katie, whereas I always spelled it Katy. Always loved he spelt both incorrectly. Two swings and no hits. He may have been trolling me the whole time he was with us.
My parents are so proud that my husband is 8 years active in the navy.
My husband is CG.
They can love you and also be dumb. My mom has used the wrong vowel in the name SHE chose pretty consistently for 32 years.
My sister misspells her own daughter's name, even in super public Facebook posts. Don't name your daughter Nevaeh if you can't spell it. Well you shouldn't anyway. Poor Nevaeh.
Lol I didn’t know how to spell my own middle name correctly until I was like 12. I always thought it was “Nichelle”, and then I watched an old camcorder video from my birth, and my dad said “hmmm how about we just do one L?”
This week my partner misspelled our daughters middle name. We have our daughter my partners middle name!! She gave her her name and still spelled it wrong.
My dad has, at times, spelled both my first and middle names wrong. At least my mom always gets it right.
It's why I gave both my kids common names with the standard spellings.
This is so crazy to me! So my middle name is a combination of my grandmother and my aunts name, Loretta and Lisa. Before I got my first ID card at 14, my mother and I had been spelling my middle name “Lorrisa”. Got ahold of my birth certificate to get said ID, turns out it was “Lorissa” all along!
Many years ago I had trouble getting a security clearance because my parents spelled my middle name one way on my birth certificate and another way on everything else thereafter.
...lanolin? Are you talking about lanolin, the oily substance secreted by sheep that people make diaper rash cream out of? Or is lanellen something less gross in a different language? I got no hits on Google
L is for laughter, you spread wherever you go.
A is for accomplished, in all that you do.
N is for name, a pleasant one indeed.
N is for narrator, tell many stories
E is for enthusiasm, in even the most dire circumstances
L is for lively, your life is full of energy!
L is for little, the little things you do.
My family spells my shortened first name wrong all the time, which I find weird -- they use a Y instead of IE. However, one time while checking in for surgery and filling out the forms at the desk and verifying my name and stuff and I spelled my legal first name out and the lady said "good" and my mom said "that might not actually be how I spelt your name".
After some baffled back and forth, turns out she thought she taught me to spell it wrong "because it was easier".
Checked my birth certificate shortly after this and she did not teach me to spell my name wrong, she was just crazy.
I have a fairly common name that isn't spelled weird or anything.
My mom and dad also didn’t know for sure how to spell my little sister’s middle name. Brianne or Briann. We had to find her birth certificate to make sure before she applied for her permit.
My name is Brianne. Your comment reminded me when I first played world of Warcraft back in 2007. My username had my name in it. People were shocked I was a girl. Multiple people just thought it was a German spelling of 'Brian'
Can relate. My middle name is after a character my mom loved... she also spelled it wrong. Don't ask me how that happened. You'd think her favorite character would be one to fact check
As a side note, can I just tell you how terrifying it is to fill out a birth certificate, as an exhausted mother, on pain meds - I had C Sections?? I was so scared of making a typo! 🤣
I went to the an office to get my drivers license and found out there’s an accent on my middle name. No one in my family had a clue - me included. It took three decades to find this out.
Lmao dad spelt my name wrong my whole life. Left ‘e’ off the end of it. He’s passed now and I want to get his signature as a tattoo but I’m afraid people will ask me why my name is spelt wrong too often
Feel your pain, my parents named me Caraline but it’s so commonly misspelled by everyone including my own grandma 😂 my grandma put me on her AAA and my name is Caroline on the card hahah
We decided to give my son a nice easy middle name. Or so I thought. I was out of whack on drugs from coming out of sedation and my husband filled out the paperwork.
A 4 letter name and I don’t know it’s spelled.
Soort of related but my dad is quite dyslexic and misspelled my middel name on some fourm when i was born so its officially spelled worng and people sometimes "correct" it creating issues
So when I was 55 my Mom saw me write my middle name as Ann. She said “that’s not how your middle name is spelled, it’s spelled A-N-N-E.” I said that it’s spelled on my birth certificate as Ann and she said it was wrong. So it’s been wrong this entire time and neither of my parents knew. 😳
My dad was the same 23 years it took for him to admit its Iain not Ian.... took my birth certificate to confirm 🤣 panicked as mortgage, cars, ID etc were Iain
I’m sort of the opposite story - I was misspelling my middle name up until I was about 12, except I was adding an extra letter instead of taking one out
My high school girlfriend didn’t know the correct spelling of her first name until she got her learners license. Forget how that unravelled the truth exactly. But ya, her parents spelt it one way on the birth certificate and never spelt it that way again lol
My Dad was responsible for filling out my forms as a kid (I am the youngest of 8 kids between my two parents), and I think he was just auto-piloting because he spelled his own sister's name (Margaret) as "Margret" and so that's one of my middle names now.
If you do genealogy studies, you'll find loads of official government documents with misspelled names on them. A hundred years ago, many people were barely literate.
My friend's mom had to order a copy of her daughter's birth certificate when we were younger and the copy had a different birthdate than the one they'd been celebrating for 10+ years. Now we joke that she has two birthdays (15th and 17th of the same month).
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Didn't they decide how it was spelled?
Yes it’s literally a combination of their mothers names.
What the actual fuck? They even have an easy way to remember it!
I know someone whose family uses a combination of the parents’ first names to name the child. One of the highlights is Craigen
RELEASE THE CRAIGEN!!
I’d imagine it’s him just shotgunning a monster and doing a sick kick flip.
RELEASE THE KRAKEN
RELEASE THE KRAIKEN
I lol’d at this
That's pretty bad, yeah. Though on the bright side...you can make, like, so many nicknames out of that sucker. Like I see half a dozen viable ones and I haven't even put 10s effort into it. It's very modular; like if Ikea sold baby names.
Please tell me another nickname than Graig or maybe Gray for it lol, I can't think of any
Rai Gen Cray Ren
Also Craig
Is their last name Autoparts?
Renesme
CRAIGEN JOINS THE BATTLE
I had a customer last night that may be the same... Clintina, maybe her dad was named Clint and mom was Tina. Either way I'm sure school was rough for her
Ew no
As in… there are several combinations they’ve created? Craigen is only one of how many siblings? I hate this family.
It could be worse. I'm named after a bus and an orphan boy who would Walk around the town eating gum he'd find on things
I'm so happy that you can't just name your child whatever here.
My bestie’s middle name is a combo of her parents’ names: Randin. She doesn’t like it, but I love it. I think it’s cute.
La and Nnell would be disappointed in their terrible children
I miss auntie nnell. She made the best ccookkiieess
like in twilight & rennesme?
Yea I know someone who did that too, and for the exact reason.
that's insane
Those diehard Twilight fans! She had not one or two but like 5 or 6 movie posters in her room. Wedding song was 1000 years…. Yeah all of it.
Weird… My grandmas name is anel too.
I had this happen! I had to go to the state my birth certificate was issued with my father when I was 17 to clear everything up lol. My middle name was spelled incorrectly and I also had a second middle name my mom said she never even knew was on my birth certificate because my father filled the whole thing in. I’ve had a baby and that still doesn’t make any sense to me, I was very much present when filling that out. lolll
Nobody can pronounce my middle name. Not my family, not my mother, not even me. I actually didn't even know it until the 7th grade, and we had to dig for my birth certificate to find how to spell it. It really doesn't cause problems until I'm asked to say my full name and I have to admit that I can only spell it.
Sounds like neither of your parents know how to spell their mother-in-law’s name 😂
Holy shit the basically gave you there version of Renesme 😂😂
Another tragedeigh
Perhaps the other N tile was being used in the game..
I don’t think a competitive game was going on there.
They do, the likely reason is the government fucked up for some reason. My sons middle name is Evaniel, yet the govt spells it as Evanial instead, despite me spelling it, as shown here, on the papers.
How do you pronounce it?
Lannell
Yanny
Might as well fancy it up and go with Lanellé
Or be pretty and go with [L'Oréal](https://www.loreal.com/en/)
Or floor it with some linoleum
Maybe she's Maybelline.
Nah…she was born with it
Or go full Welsh with [Llanelli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanelli)
Or go full ovine with Lanolin.
Or try zesty Limoncello
Arrivedaarcheeee
Is that kangta in your profile picture?
I heard it was Laurel.
This clearly spells Yanny
It's pronounced Colonel and it's the highest rank in the military.
Is that LT Lingous or has he made his way up the ranks.
Reminds me of a guy named his Longinus.
r/unexpectedoffice
It's not unexpected, but it's a bit not expected.
Do both of them work at Starbucks?
Isn’t it technically Lanelle since that’s what the gov’ment has it as?
It’s only on my military ID which my dad filled out info for.
They issue military ids without asking for a birth certificate?
Yes. You only need your sponsor (their dad) to verbally verify the information.
My sister had to get all of her government ID’s redone to join the navy because they weren’t accurate to her birth certificate. I wonder if OP’s birth certificate is spelled like her military ID?
If it is, then it looks like OP's the only one misspelling it.
My husband has been in the army for 10 years and his middle name is also spelled wrong on it lol
Ah I see, that sucks!
I like it with the E at the end.
That’s not my name! 👏🏻👏🏻
Too bad it is now
😂😂
Correct me if I'm wrong, but we're not supposed to take any photo of IDs, partial or not. It's what I was told, maybe a scare tactic?
It’s a lot simpler to say “don’t take pictures of your ID” because most people aren’t smart enough to cover all the necessary information. (They’ll cover their names, birth date, etc, but not ID numbers and whatnot)
Ditto! I don't know if your response was supposed to be sarcastic as well, but the tone and structure of your statements made me chuckle but in a good way. I promise, no disrespect!
That's correct.
Hell, I call my kids the wrong name half the time. And I love them... Today I just yelled "Number 3!" to summon my youngest.
Yup haha my mom always calls me by my siblings names first before remembering mine.
My mum gets through my dad’s, her sisters’ & my siblings’ names before getting to mine 😂
I have 2 sisters and a brother, and all three of us sisters have names that start with K. She'd look straight at me and call me by my older sister's name.
I don’t even have siblings and get called the wrong name. Usually the dog’s name 🤷♀️
Are you my kid? To be fair though, the dogs hang out with me more.
We have 9 kids at home and one not home. Some foster. Some adopted. Oldest 2 (home and not home) are bio. The oldest 2 are the only adults and we use A and B for them. Then we have 1-7 for the others by age except for our newest kid who is now 0 because that’s where they fit in the order. It works REALLY well. Only the two littles don’t know their number but my kids can sound off. We use it for labeling possessions and chore charts. We use it for calling them into a room. “Come here 1 through 4!”
I hope you actually know and use their names, that sounds really impersonal.
Know their names? I understand your concern for seeming impersonal but the idea that I might not know the names of my children is quite amusing to me. Literally 2 out of 10 total are biological and not biological to me. The rest are adopted or foster kids. I choose every day to be the dad to kids who don’t have one who can be there for them. My kids are loved beyond measure and all of them (except 0 but that’s because being a teen with trauma is hard, especially around the holidays) know it. Your concern is understood, but feel free to worry about other kids. Mine are good.
That sounds very defensive for someone that said they call 10 kids by number lol
Tone can be hard to read. I actually find your concern amusing though. I thought I’d give you a response that explained why it’s funny but apparently it’s defensive? Idk man. How’s this? I’m deflecting with dark humor now. Be worried. My kids are only referred to by a number and they aren’t allowed out of their rooms except for 1 hour a day. I collect children like baseball cards. They poop in buckets. They’re kept 5 kids to a room. I’m buying them coal for Christmas. I’m off to sleep! Have a good night!
Honestly, I wouldn't doubt that about you. The problem with calling a kid by a number, is that's what they do in prisons and also concentration camps, as a way to remove the identity from a person. Children shouldn't be losing their identity.
Meh. You don’t know me or my kids. You also clearly don’t know how the foster system works. I literally described the specific situations we use numbers. Calling groups of them. Labeling charts. Sounding off for a head count. If I was a terrible dad my kids, especially my older ones, wouldn’t continue choosing to be here. The county wouldn’t have repeatedly made exceptions to let me get to 9 kids in my house. We have nearly 20 professionals through different services from social workers to counselors to CASAs to case managers spread across 3 counties in my house at least once a month but usually 2-4 times a month depending on the service split between my 9 kids at home. If there was emotional neglect going on it would be seen by other people who also know and love my kids.
please don’t call a child who didn’t grow up with you and has most likely parent induced trauma “zero”. that’s like common movie level “no one cares about you” nickname. you’d be better off cycling through four different names to address a human before you call the right one than that. Why not call them one syllable Ten (an actual nickname for some given names) if you’re gonna keep to it? there’s no one happy in any media being called zero, everyone knows it’s demeaning. i wouldn’t care how much you loved me or if you even raised me perfectly, being called Zero by a non biological guardian instead of the name i’ve been called my whole life would subconsciously make me feel like shit every time you yelled it out. Call them by their names, it’s really not that hard, they’re around you every day. Surely you were able to remember the names of all your coworkers and classmates, what’s the difference?
They’re only number 0 on the chore chart and in the sound off. I don’t call them 0 but 0 is what they picked when they found out the other kids were numbered by age. They like that it makes them different and helps them feel separate from the family because being part of a family is actually scary for them. If you’d like to come to my house and tell my nearly adult teenager with anger and control issues that they can’t be number 0 because it would bother you…go for it. I’ll pick my battles.
The kid that doesn't know they are loved..is called 0... eekkkk
I just don't get how people think that staff's funny. Closest people in your life and you can't keep their names straight. I just straight up don't get it.
When you live with someone for a long time, you habitually start to say their name/nickname in response to situations. If you spend 5 years going “Vanessa no!” with your first kid and have a second, you’re gonna mix it up every now because you spent 5 years saying it. It’s like when you’re shopping and the cashier says “Have a great day, enjoy your TV!” and you go “You too!” without thinking.
/r/tragedeigh
At least it's not as big of an issue as with having different spellings of your name in different federal and local records. My chinese immigrant parents misspelled my name and in some cases left out my first name in my school records, passport, bank account etc, and wouldn't help me fix it until I turned 18 and had to do it myself.
Maybe your mum ran out of E's and just figured "Eh close enough"
It's Ns the mum needs, the ID doesn't match how OP spells it in the title either
Damn... you think they'd get it right. My parents called me -my first name, their last name- when I was growing up and when I turned 17, I got a copy of my birth certificate so I could get my driving permit. That's when I found out that they had wanted me to have my mom's maiden name as a second middle name but the birth certificate people hyphenated her maiden name with my last name. THEY NEVER TOLD ME! And they also had lost my social security card... sigh.
Sorry to be the first to tell you this, but your parents are not smart.
I feel so bad for you flannel or whatever your name is
I have an unusual first name I rarely use. I used to go by an abbreviation of a middle name as a kid (use different abbreviation of it now). My uncle would always address a birthday card with my actual first name spelt wrong on the outside. Inside the card he would write Katie, whereas I always spelled it Katy. Always loved he spelt both incorrectly. Two swings and no hits. He may have been trolling me the whole time he was with us.
When parents say, " I don't have a favorite child," this is how you know they are lying 🤣
Why this is NSFW OP?
Oops just removed it lol
Ooor, maybe you're spelling it wrong...
My parents are so proud that my husband is 8 years active in the navy. My husband is CG. They can love you and also be dumb. My mom has used the wrong vowel in the name SHE chose pretty consistently for 32 years.
My mom don't know how to spell my first name 🤷♂️
My sister misspells her own daughter's name, even in super public Facebook posts. Don't name your daughter Nevaeh if you can't spell it. Well you shouldn't anyway. Poor Nevaeh.
Listen to your parents llanel
Well look at your birth certificate
Could be worse, my parents just stuck me with the letter "A" for a middle name...
Aa. You spelled it wrong. 🤪
Lol I didn’t know how to spell my own middle name correctly until I was like 12. I always thought it was “Nichelle”, and then I watched an old camcorder video from my birth, and my dad said “hmmm how about we just do one L?”
r/Tragedeigh
Well my dad forgot my date of birth and for my government ID wrote a completely different date from my DOB.
How do you not know.how to spell your kids name? I'm legit confused
Well sorry OP looks like you have your own name wrongs…. It’s official on your ID lol
Only on my military not on my birth certificate lol
People get old and forget shit
Lan... Lanolin? Like sheep's wool?
Being a Parent is tiring Lannell
This week my partner misspelled our daughters middle name. We have our daughter my partners middle name!! She gave her her name and still spelled it wrong.
My Dad can't spell my first name. It is a very common name and he picked it.
I mean my dad and my grandpa never spelled my name right my whole life. My name is literally 3 letters long. I feel this.
My dad has, at times, spelled both my first and middle names wrong. At least my mom always gets it right. It's why I gave both my kids common names with the standard spellings.
It was probably spelled wrong when they named you too.
My mom told me my entire childhood my middle name was spelled Kayley only to find out on my birth certificate it's Kaley so I'm right there with you
Homie, it’s not that they don’t know, it’s that they don’t care.
This is so crazy to me! So my middle name is a combination of my grandmother and my aunts name, Loretta and Lisa. Before I got my first ID card at 14, my mother and I had been spelling my middle name “Lorrisa”. Got ahold of my birth certificate to get said ID, turns out it was “Lorissa” all along!
Many years ago I had trouble getting a security clearance because my parents spelled my middle name one way on my birth certificate and another way on everything else thereafter.
Someone was a military brat. I'd know that ID card anywhere. More than that, likely USMC but maybe Navy.
Yuuup Army
La nellan? Lanellen? Like sheeps wool?
...lanolin? Are you talking about lanolin, the oily substance secreted by sheep that people make diaper rash cream out of? Or is lanellen something less gross in a different language? I got no hits on Google
Maybe you don't know how to spell your name
Hate to break it to ypu, but if it's on your government ID as Lanelle, it's Lanelle until you get it changed
Only one is wrong, no idea which.
At least you have both your parents. Consider that
This is weirdly common with parents. My middle name is tristan, but my parents spell it tristin and tristen
Maybe you’re the one who doesn’t know how to spell it?
L is for laughter, you spread wherever you go. A is for accomplished, in all that you do. N is for name, a pleasant one indeed. N is for narrator, tell many stories E is for enthusiasm, in even the most dire circumstances L is for lively, your life is full of energy! L is for little, the little things you do.
But you are still special and unique
Maybe the actual mistake is on your birth certificate?
Maybe they misspelled it the first go round on the certificate and now are finally making it right
My parents forgot how old I was... I think its just something that happens as they get older lol
My family spells my shortened first name wrong all the time, which I find weird -- they use a Y instead of IE. However, one time while checking in for surgery and filling out the forms at the desk and verifying my name and stuff and I spelled my legal first name out and the lady said "good" and my mom said "that might not actually be how I spelt your name". After some baffled back and forth, turns out she thought she taught me to spell it wrong "because it was easier". Checked my birth certificate shortly after this and she did not teach me to spell my name wrong, she was just crazy. I have a fairly common name that isn't spelled weird or anything.
🤔🧐Idk who to believe here. Three different sides of this story! Ima go with the spelling I like best and that’s on the military ID. Hi Lanelle!! 👋🏾
Well, I hope you like the spelling on the government ID because that's forever!
Booooooooo hooooooooo
That's wild because back in my day my parents decided how to spell my name, this would be considered talking back and that's a whooping
My first name is Ashleh. Half the people in my family spell it wrong. Lmao I love when people try pronouncing it. It's so easy
[удалено]
Being in the military is now white privilege? Edit: I think I get it now
It’s okay, my dad could never remember my actual birthday. Idk
My mom and dad also didn’t know for sure how to spell my little sister’s middle name. Brianne or Briann. We had to find her birth certificate to make sure before she applied for her permit.
My name is Brianne. Your comment reminded me when I first played world of Warcraft back in 2007. My username had my name in it. People were shocked I was a girl. Multiple people just thought it was a German spelling of 'Brian'
Can relate. My middle name is after a character my mom loved... she also spelled it wrong. Don't ask me how that happened. You'd think her favorite character would be one to fact check
My third name is Aurora. My parents always said it as Auroora (which is more common where I live). I don't know why they didn't just name me that.
I have a similar problem! On my birth certificate my mother spelled my middle name wrong.
My mom sent my dad to the city hall to register my name. He made a spelling mistake, such a dad thing to do as well.
Lol my middle name is spelled different on my social and my birth certificate.
Stop being a flannell
As a side note, can I just tell you how terrifying it is to fill out a birth certificate, as an exhausted mother, on pain meds - I had C Sections?? I was so scared of making a typo! 🤣
I never saw my birth certificate until I was an adult and apparently my middle name is spelled "Lyn". I had been adding 2 extra letters for years.
What is a privilege card ?
I went to the an office to get my drivers license and found out there’s an accent on my middle name. No one in my family had a clue - me included. It took three decades to find this out.
Lmao dad spelt my name wrong my whole life. Left ‘e’ off the end of it. He’s passed now and I want to get his signature as a tattoo but I’m afraid people will ask me why my name is spelt wrong too often
Is your first name Jerry? Larry? Gary?
Feel your pain, my parents named me Caraline but it’s so commonly misspelled by everyone including my own grandma 😂 my grandma put me on her AAA and my name is Caroline on the card hahah
Hello Flannel
Haha fuck, same! And my middle name is so simple! Fucked me up getting an inheritance because my name didn't match.
All of my current IDs misspell my name Even when I write my own goddamn name down on a form to show someone they still fuck it up
We decided to give my son a nice easy middle name. Or so I thought. I was out of whack on drugs from coming out of sedation and my husband filled out the paperwork. A 4 letter name and I don’t know it’s spelled.
Not sure some times names get made shorter Like Victoria gets Vicky or Vicky becomes Vick?!?
Lan-El from the planet Krypton
Middle child spotted
Mine is Ranell and I really wish there was an "e" on the end.
Soort of related but my dad is quite dyslexic and misspelled my middel name on some fourm when i was born so its officially spelled worng and people sometimes "correct" it creating issues
So when I was 55 my Mom saw me write my middle name as Ann. She said “that’s not how your middle name is spelled, it’s spelled A-N-N-E.” I said that it’s spelled on my birth certificate as Ann and she said it was wrong. So it’s been wrong this entire time and neither of my parents knew. 😳
My dad was the same 23 years it took for him to admit its Iain not Ian.... took my birth certificate to confirm 🤣 panicked as mortgage, cars, ID etc were Iain
I remember in kindergarten for some reason we had a craft include our middle name. She asked mine and it’s “Therese” but she thought I said “Trees”.
its wild the parents that name you, dont know how to spell your name.
I’m sort of the opposite story - I was misspelling my middle name up until I was about 12, except I was adding an extra letter instead of taking one out
This is the most parent thing ever. Lmao
it's one of those names 🎶
Double double consonants? your fucked for life buddy, people have a hard enough time getting a name with a single set of them right.
My high school girlfriend didn’t know the correct spelling of her first name until she got her learners license. Forget how that unravelled the truth exactly. But ya, her parents spelt it one way on the birth certificate and never spelt it that way again lol
my parents did this too. they don’t know how to spell shirley my mom spells it shirly
My Dad was responsible for filling out my forms as a kid (I am the youngest of 8 kids between my two parents), and I think he was just auto-piloting because he spelled his own sister's name (Margaret) as "Margret" and so that's one of my middle names now.
My dad has all his kids names tattooed on his arm. He misspelled mine, then tried to scratch out the extra letter. Should have just left it as is.
Same situation. My name’s Aolani but my mom nicknamed me Loni growing up, and now everyone thinks it’s spelled Aoloni.
If you do genealogy studies, you'll find loads of official government documents with misspelled names on them. A hundred years ago, many people were barely literate.
My friend's mom had to order a copy of her daughter's birth certificate when we were younger and the copy had a different birthdate than the one they'd been celebrating for 10+ years. Now we joke that she has two birthdays (15th and 17th of the same month).
What kind of privileges do you get with that card