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Long ago I knew a person named Gregg. He constantly had to correct peoples' spelling of his name. Why would parents burden their kid like this?
by WalterBright 2y ago
Long ago I knew a person named Gregg. He constantly had to correct peoples' spelling of his name.
Why would parents burden their kid like this?
- collinvandyck76 2y agoI'm a Collin with two l's. Not as uncommon as Gregg but it's never been a burden. I also don't bother correcting people unless it's happening a lot with the same person and someone I expect to interact with a lot.
- mserdarsanli 2y agoWhy would any parent name their child water with an extra L?
- WalterBright 2y agoNobody has ever misspelled my first name. They never misspelled the last one before "lite" beer appeared.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoIt really shouldnt be a problem, and in the case of simple corrections, it isnt. I think it does become a problem where formal systems are inflexible and unable to accommodate or be corrected.
- cellis 2y agoMore importantly, why don't adults give up names that clearly put them at an economic disadvantage? The same reason people don't sell houses when they are almost always a bad investment; pride, sunk-costs, sentimentalism or other reasons for their subjectivity. https://www.reddit.com/r/namenerds/comments/10hssp8/why_do_people_pass_on_embarrassing_last_names/ https://www.reddit.com/r/namenerds/comments/10hssp8/why_do_p...
- p3rls 2y agoAs an orphan that has wanted a last name change-- it's mostly because I am afraid of being locked out of my google account. Haven't I suffered enough?
- OgsyedIE 2y agoGoogle has a surprising plethora of functioning, non-buggy tools for migrating an account's data to a different account. Do some research about what can't be migrated and make the change for everything else.
- theoreticalmal 2y agoWhen you order Starbucks and say your name is “Gregg with three gs”, does the barista write something wild like “grgeg”?