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Dear dimwit on the phone

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Starman, Jan 21, 2010.

  1. albert77

    albert77 Well-Known Member

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

    MightyMouse Member

    Britnee -- yeah, we had one of those.
     
  3. apeman33

    apeman33 Well-Known Member

    Britknee. Ugh.
     
  4. Gator

    Gator Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  5. albert77

    albert77 Well-Known Member

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

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    "C'mon, Illen ..."
     
  7. BillyT

    BillyT Active Member

    You call the school and ask for the spelling.
     
  8. rtse11

    rtse11 Well-Known Member

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

    dirtybird Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  10. CA_journo

    CA_journo Member

    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.
     
  11. flexmaster33

    flexmaster33 Well-Known Member

    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 :)
     
  12. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    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.
     
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