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	catslash 2009-06-18 06:32 pm UTC (link)
	I'll just be over here, being happy to have the kind of name that only gets a nickname if I say I want one. Pretty much people do not have trouble sticking with Cathryn. (Spelling it, that's a whole other issue.) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	tofuknight 2009-06-18 08:20 pm UTC (link)
	Really? That is my name (spelled differently) and I suffered through 12 years in public school of having to tell every single teacher not to call me "Cathy". No really, I do not want a shortened form. One subsititute in the district refused to register the message and called me Cathy anyway. I took to refusing to answer. :D And oh God, the spelling issues.... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

catslash
2009-06-18 08:25 pm UTC (link)

Odd. I've always had every teacher ask what I prefer, I say, "I go by Cathryn," and that's the end of it. I was called Cathy once in a debate club, but that was for simplicity's sake - there was a Katherine (or however she spelled it) and she was older, so I got the nickname. That I didn't mind.

. . . I did have a teacher spend half the school year calling me Carolyn, but that wasn't on purpose. XD I think the spelling confused him.

Aaaand yeah. People who can spell my name are the exception. Isn't it amazing, how people can misspell something you have just spelled out to them, or even better, something they routinely see on PAPERWORK?

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	pastri_archy 2009-06-18 10:08 pm UTC (link)
	(My name is not Cathryn but I understand. sigh It's not funny when they do it on important documents.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	talec 2009-06-19 02:22 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, really. No, IRS, I am not Owyn. :V (Reply to this)(Parent)

	eilisliana 2009-06-19 12:21 am UTC (link)
	Ah, the spelling... it got to the point where someone would ask my name and I'd reply "Jillian with a J" to make it simple. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	risha 2009-06-19 03:55 am UTC (link)
	I habitually spell my name in any business situation, just out of habit. "Hi, my name is Risha R-I-S-H-A Fisk and I'm calling about...". (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	risha 2009-06-19 03:56 am UTC (link)
	My, redundant sentence is redundant. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	hallidae 2009-06-19 10:23 pm UTC (link)
	That would be me as well. I have no trouble doing it with my first name, as it's a rather odd spelling, but considering my last name is both rather common and a type of pocket knife, you'd think I wouldn't have to spell it for people as often as I do. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sailorcoruscant 2009-06-19 03:59 am UTC (link)
	Everyone I know has trouble with Catherine. It's always Cathie (that one's my mum's fault, and I get irrationally angry at people who spell it "Cathy"), or Cate, or Cath (twitches), or Cat, or Catarina, or... Not that I'm bitter or anything. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tofuknight 2009-06-19 04:16 pm UTC (link)
	joins you in the bitterness Want some chocolate? offers some (Reply to this)(Parent)

dragonfangirl
2009-06-21 08:16 am UTC (link)

At this point in my life, I've gone by so many variations on Katherine that I will pretty much answer to any of them indiscriminately and not bother to correct any of them. I currently prefer to go by Kay, but that is one that really just goes in one ear and out the other.

Me: Hello, my name is Kay.
Them: Did you say your name is Kate?
Me: No, it's Kay.
Them: (introducing me to someone else) Hi, I have Katie here...

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major_fischer
2009-06-23 05:01 am UTC (link)

I long ago gave up on people spelling my name right on first go (I'm Katherine) but I also will answer to every nickname form of it plus Kathleen despite the fact that I go by Katherine.

But it's kind of useful to have along name with lots of diminatives.

If someone calls me Kathy - they are family or people I knew in childhood.
If someone calls me Kit - they knew me in college when I went to a women's school ... lots of Katherines.
If someone calls me Kate - they overheard me ordering food. I tend to give Kate to order taker so they don't have to ponder the spelling.

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	trialia 2009-10-15 10:14 pm UTC (link)
	I always wished I'd been called Katherine rather than the name on my birth certificate being plain "Kate" - I hate that as a diminutive. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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