Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Liza, actually. You do go ballistic when someone misspells your name,
> as I recall.
a) I realized that almost as soon as I'd pressed the Send button. Apologies. I don't believe I've ever misspelled someone's name when I was looking directly at it (as is usually the case in e-mail responses). In fact often I guard against that by pasting the name rather than by typing it out.
b) No. I've never gone close to ballistic. I usually don't even mention it, and (except for today) when I do mention it I do so apologetically, often with the buffering comment that probably my grandmother didn't know how to spell when she named my father.
I didn't mention the misspelling in my first response to Anthony. I mentioned it in the second because the issue there was accurate reading.
At least two people have been misspelling my name for about 5 years on these lists and I've never complained. In fact, I don't usually even complain when it is both a spelling error and a gender error. :-) Anthony's "Carole" suggests that it might be a gender error in that instance. The usual misspelling is simply to double the l -- which _is_ the most common spelling of the masculine form of the name.
Carrol