If you've got a name that's tricky to spell or deviates from the traditional spelling, then you'll know all too well how tedious it can be to explain to people that your name is Kirstie with an 'ie', or Allen instead of Alan.
Usually, clarifying spelling is something you have to do when you're phoning up the bank or your energy supplier, but one woman has found that it's someone much closer to her that just can't seem to spell her name properly - her own mother-in-law.
The woman - who remained anonymous but said her name is a simple five-letter moniker - said she has spent around 14 years having to constantly correct her husband's mum whenever she writes her name down, and she still hasn't got the memo as she still continues to spell her name incorrectly.
In a post on Reddit, the woman said: "I have a five-letter name. It is not a difficult name, if slightly unusual. For 14 years [my mother-in-law has] been spelling it wrong.
"She writes texts like emails so she starts them with my name and signs them. Every single time I've told her how to spell it correctly and she ignores me. [She just] never responds when I answer the text and say, 'Also, my name is spelt _____, thanks!' At this point, I'm confident I have corrected her thousands of times.
"Today we got the Christmas cards she sent out. She spelt it wrong again. Why does this still p**s me off so much?"
Commenters on the post were quick to tell the woman she wasn't wrong for being upset about her mother-in-law's unwillingness to learn how her name is actually spelt, with one saying the reason it still upsets her is that it "diminishes her as a person".
One person wrote: "Because it makes you feel unseen. That's infuriating.
While another added: "Because it diminishes you as a person."
And a third said: "Always change the first letter of her name to a different letter each time you contact her but never mention it. If she brings it up just tell her that you thought spelling each other's names wrong was just a special thing that just the two of you did."
"It probably p***es you off because you know she either doesn't care or does it on purpose," someone else posted, "I'd not respond since she doesn't want to spell your name properly!"
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