Does anyone else have a character whose name people always get wrong?

[agentfink]

often misspell Grey as Gray. Which is understandable... I just don't like the A spelling

Ha ha, my husband and I go through this a lot with our sheriff character.
The Sheriff's name is Terrence Logan... but my husband often misspells it as Terrance-- shudder-- I just don't like how it looks!

[Kamikaze]

Misspellings don't happen to us very often...which is surprising because we've got some pretty non-standard names in Kamikaze.

However we DO get a lot of mispronunciations of Markesha's name! We've heard:
Mar-kai-sha
Mar-kee-sha
Mar-kesh-ah
Mark-qu-ee-sha

It was happening so often we figured out a way to give our readers a phonetic spelling in the comic.

Mar-Kay-Sha~!

[Michelle]

Ha ha, my husband and I go through this a lot with our sheriff character.The Sheriff's name is Terrence Logan... but my husband often misspells it as Terrance-- shudder-- I just don't like how it looks!

Terrance... it makes me think of "terrace", so I'm with you on that one. D: I donno what it is, E just looks better! Maybe it's deeply-ingrained from my childhood friend Lindsey who everyone misspelled as Lindsay, and I'm just forever channeling that grief.

[agentfink]

I will channel that grief as well! For Lindsey-.- with an E!!!!

[infectedbloodcomics]

People often misspell Sekhmet - without the "h", with a "g" in place of the "h"... You name it, she's got it :/

[Zanreo]

Not spelling exactly, but I've sometimes had Sony and Microsoft referred to as "Playstation" and "Xbox", respectively. I get why people would make that mistake (and probably doesn't help they got the PS/Xbox logos on their shirts rather than Sony/Microsoft logos) but they're supposed to represent their companies (though mainly their gaming division obviously) rather than just the consoles. Nintendo (the character) isn't named "Wii U" after all (she'd have to change her name every time a new cosole got released... or there would be one character for each console. And ithe characters would be based on consoles rather than game companies instead...)

Also not a character but I get my OWN nickname Zanreo misspelled quite a bit... seen "Zanero" too many times to count, and at least one "Zareno".

[carloswebcomic]

Yep. I got a character called Lula, so I get Lala, Lalu, Lulu... it's written right there!

[glennsong]

I'll sometimes hear Kamiko's name pronounced as "Kimiko". I once heard it spoken as "KAM-co".

[tomatobird]

I...I feel like I've misspelled my own characters' names before /shame/

Ananias --> Ananaias (extra "a"... too many a's... this is why I edit XD)

[sushy00]

Does it count if I am the character? (I guess so because I have a semi-autobiographic comic)
Most people write sushi instead of sushy. Which is pretty understandable though. Maybe it is because of autocorrect on phones too ^^;

[igneriss]

My main character from 6,75 is nicknamed Kestrel. Usually people call her 'Krestel', but also got Kerstel and Krystal.
My other character's name is Jerzy. People call him Jersey. And I was pretty sure that's a nickname they gave him, untill one of my readers commented that she just realised that 'Jerzy' is a polish name and isn't supposed to be read like that CX
Surprisingly, Karamanczi's name (...surname) is always written correctly. Maybe my readers just copy and paste his name : D

[jacintawibowo]

Sheen XD oh that's too good.

Ah I think so far Prince Deryn gets misspelled to "Prince Daryn" sometimes. Poppy gets misspelled much less frequently though she was called "Polly" once, which is cute!

"Seith" I know this character's name is a little weird and would probably be mispelled into "Seth" but surprisingly I had readers call him "Sheith". XD I did have a reader named "Seth" relate to his character though X3

[quakeulf]

My main protagonist of Lemonade is called Maja, but everynyan outside of Scandinavia read it as "Maha".
In Norwegian "j" is the sound between "i" and "y" in articulation of Norwegian vowels. I was tempted to call her Maia or Maya for the English version but I want consistency and the "j" don't be silent.

[TACOBERTO]

Amelia Svetlana Druvmenski
Or just Amy. I've seen many combination of spelling for her last name or people just drop the last name altogether

[wotcomic]

I have a character called Jon, which people sometimes spell as John but I honestly just find that funny because I know Jon would hate that, and making Jon angry is great.

Anna sometimes gets called Anne, but Anna is often a nickname for Anne so that one's pretty understandable.

And I was going to say something about how sometimes people get Seth and Jon's names mixed up, except I do that too sometimes whoops XD I'm a bad mum.

Normally though I'm just happy people remember my characters' names at all, so misspellings don't really bother me!

[KSlinger]

People call Jed 'Jeb' sometimes. Is that a common name somewhere? I dunno, and I don't mind either way, I misread names all the time. It hardly matters. Find it amusing that Serge and Morris never have that problem though. I'd totally get them wrong!

[mac]

im pretty sure jeb is like, a southern name lmao

[KSlinger]

Southern where? America? Like redneck? I mean in my mind he has a Texan (?) accent so I suppose that makes sense.

[mac]

american yeah, like, an old guy in florida that says yall (the only jeb i know is jeb bush)

[joannekwan]

Never mind my characters (already posted earlier anyway), but it irks me a little when people call me Joanna instead of Joanne.
I think it's mostly because I know of a lot more Joannas than Joannes. I don't even care if you misspell it as JoAnne or Joann, as long as there's no a at the end.

Haha I even named my shit-post tumble "its an e at the end" aah I'm so salty…