My husband always spells our son’s name wrong and can’t even say it correctly – it drives me mad as it’s so common
A WOMAN was furious when she found out the reason that all her husband’s friends were spelling their son’s name incorrectly.
The mum explained that she found out it was because HE couldn’t spell the baby’s name properly and that he blamed autocorrect for the error.
The woman joked that she was so exasperated by her husband’s mistake that she wanted someone to send help.
Taking to Reddit she said: “My son’s name is Isaac. He is five months old.
“I’ve been wondering why all of my husband’s friends spell it ‘Issac’.
“Today I realised that they spell it that way because HE spells it that way.
“He announced it that way, that is how he refers to him in all his messages.
“He sends his grandma photo postcards and that is how he spells his name on those.
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“Why? Autocorrect. Send help.”
The mum later added: “It has really annoyed me! As a one off it’s fine, autocorrect is silly, but it’s every time and he’s never noticed?
“He hasn’t even noticed that everyone else now does the same thing. Mind blown. If someone spells my baby’s name wrong to me then I definitely notice because he’s my flipping baby.”
But fellow Reddit users were quick to jump in and share stories of similar mishaps in their families.
One person said: “My grandad spelt my mums name wrong on her birth certificate but thankfully it was just another variation!
“However they wanted a Bible name but got a non biblical spelling. They just left it!”
Another said: “My cousin realised he’d been spelling his name ‘wrong’ when he was 16.
“His parents spelt it Zachery on his birth certificate but he was taught to spell it Zachary.
“They also spelt his sister’s name as Haylee because they didn’t know there was any other way to spell it (it’s commonly spelt Hayley in Australia).”
A third said: “I have a friend Cassie which is pronounced Casey. Her own mom spelled it wrong on her birth certificate!”
Another said: “I have a cousin Jeffery instead of Jeffrey for this reason. Some people wouldn’t see the big deal but technically the name is different.”
While another said: ” I know a guy named Nikey instead of Mikey. His dad made a spelling mistake.”