I am not a stickler for how people spell my name, but I figure I'll get it stated publicly at least once.
My name is Ricardo. People have asked, "Do you mind if I call you Ricardo?" No, I don't. It's my name. My name is not Richard, and I will be annoyed if you call me Richard or Rich. My name is certainly not Richardo, and I will be very annoyed if you call me that or address mail to me that way. It genuinely annoys me.
I almost never write my own name, except for my signature or my initials. When I do, I write "Rik." Many of my friends call me that. I never write Rick or Ric. Sometimes people say, "But there's no 'k' in Ricardo!" Well, there's no "k" in Richard, either, and people write "Rick" for Richard. I spell it R-I-K, and if you're going to call me by that name, you should, too.
I doesn't bug me when people spell it Ric or Rick, but I imagine people would rather spell it the way I intend, not some other way. (It's strange, to me, that people usually default to Ric.)
I also respond to Rico and RJ, by the way.
I have no idea why people would possible spell Aaron as Arron -- aron or erin or something but why would have two r's in it?
People frequently mis-spel it, even tho its no more foreign or less common than hannah, josh and any of the hebrew biblical names. If they were a stickler for romanizing the hebrew name it would be AHRN.
Re:I know what you mean
vsergu on 2005-01-20T14:43:09
I suspect it's that "aa" is rare in English, and they know there's supposed to be a double letter in there somewhere, so they come up with "Arron". People do the same thing with "Isaac", spelling it as "Issac" (which, unlike "Arron", isn't a very reasonable spelling for the sound of the name).
But then some people introduce an "aa" by misspelling "savvy" as "saavy". Probably because "vv" is also rare.
I also cringe a bit at people calling me "Randy". I never introduce myself as that, but people sometimes use that without checking with me first. I think they're just trying to be "more friendly", but I decided very early in my life that the thought of a "formal" name that was different from a "familiar" name didn't make any sense to me.
Now, if I ever became a porn star... I'd use Randy for sure. {grin} Odds of that happening are like, zero, though.
