Dear dimwit on the phone

Hard to believe we haven't covered Brittany, Brittney, Britni, Britney, Brytny, etc.

 

Britnee -- yeah, we had one of those.

 

Britknee. Ugh.

 

My brother and his wife spelled my niece's name Rielly. We're very Irish and they wanted an Irish name .... only they didn't get the proper Irish spelling. I asked about it one time, and they said they meant to do that. God love them, but I personally don't think they really knew how to spell it. Actually might have just sounded it out.

 

My wife's middle name is Illen, which she pronounces eye-LEEN. I just nod my head and roll with it.

 

"C'mon, Illen ..."

 

You call the school and ask for the spelling.

 

Tell him if it makes him feel any better, nobody cares about tennis.

 

I had a kid last week where I literally interviewed him and at the end spelled out his name to double check. He confirmed what the roster said. On a call-in his coach spelled it differently. Double-checked on facebook, and low and behold, the kid gave me his own name wrong.

 

There's an athlete with two apostrophes in his first name - one after the first letter, and one at the end of the name. That second apostrophe makes me absolutely dumbfounded.

 

Angry called: "Hey you idiots misspelled my kids name again, in your small-town rag. It's supposed to be Aleesyn"

Me: "No, I'm sorry. You misspelled your daughter's name on her birth certificate. I'm pretty sure we have it correctly in the paper."

Haven't done this yet, but oh, have I been tempted

 

New one.

We had a stringer from another town do a story in today's paper and his last name is, I don't know how else to say it, vaguely Middle Eastern.

Story was OK, but caller left me a VM very exercised about the story ... and his main complaint(s) seemed to be colored by the writer's last name.

Not surprising but, needless to say, disappointing. Of course he didn't leave me a callback.