Names Most Likely to be Mis-spelled

[Satchmo Distel]

Donald Pleasence, as most people would spell it Pleasance

[Me Old Flower]

Is Robert Carlyle too well known to have his name misspelt? Likewise Jason Flemyng.

[Nurse Duckett]

Patrick Vieira

[Snake Plissken]

Den Hegarty, singer with Darts, not to be confused with Dan Haggerty who played Grizzly Adams.

[Vicarious Thrillseeker]

Derren Brown

[Benjm]

Donald Pleasence, as most people would spell it Pleasance

Guilty!

[3 Colours Red]

PhiLLip Schofield.
DominiK Diamond.

This is actually quite a personal thing as hardly anyone got my first name right before a certain lead singer of a certain Mancunian Britpop band made it big.

Ian, William, Leon... I swear I even got one Christmas card when I was about six addressed to Lemon. I almost pine for those days since after 1994, I now hear my name far too fucking much.

[Lang Spoon]

Jesus. Never thought of L*** as a difficult name.

[Benjm]

But if we're talking about Northern Uproar, as I assume we are, then Leon is right.

[Sean of the Shed]

There are plenty of variants of the spelling of my first name, ane people generally plump for the S-H-A-U-N spelling, and very few people bother to ask.

[tee rex]

Terry-Thomas.

[Sam]

My surname is Kelly, and it's bizarre how many people in the UK I had to spell it out to because they'd go for something totally different without asking. I mean, yes there are other spellings of it, but surely 'mine' is far and away the most common, and it's hardly an unusual surname.

[Haddock]

Djamolidine Abdoujaparov

[3 Colours Red]

Jesus. Never thought of L*** as a difficult name.

Mam tells me I was the only baby born in the Maelor hospital given that first name in the whole of 1982, according to whoever handled the registrations for the birth certificates.

[Wouter D]

1999 Physics Nobel Prize winner Gerard 't Hooft has this handy guide on his personal website.

[Various Artist]

Wow, reading that's the first time I've thought about WordPerfect in a loong time!

[Various Artist]

Patrick Vieira

D'oh! Misspelled that only last night on here. Have just gone and edited it now in shame.

[Stumpy Pepys]

I thought Patrice Evra was Patrick Evra for a long time.

[Jah Womble]

Jesus. Never thought of L*** as a difficult name.

I think I'd struggle to pronounce that, to be honest...

'Stephen Hawkins (Hawking)' is one that tends to get on my proverbial.

[Snake Plissken]

Tony Hawks has an entire webpage responding to people thinking that he is good at skateboarding.

http://www.tony-hawks.com/skateboarding/

[Satchmo Distel]

Patrice Rushen.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Loyd Grossman
Emily Ratajkowski

[jwdd27]

John Humphrys
Nicolas Cage

[Southport Zeb]

Emily Ratajkowski

The number of times I've called her Emma...

[Snake Plissken]

Ralph Fiennes.
Ranulph Fiennes.