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[quote=Anonymous]I am a teacher. It is important to me to always spell and pronounce names correctly,  but I am human and make mistakes.

In a chat response to a student one day in class, I accidentally typed, "Yes, Sophe, we are currently working on  ______." I immediately corrected myself and wrote "*Sophie," but I still got an "email of concern" from the child's mother regarding my inability to spell her daughter's name. I know how to spell Sophie's name; it was a typo to leave out the "i."

I will admit that I have made mistakes with spelling nicknames this year because I never see the students write their own name on papers, so when I have Zac, Zak, Zack, and Zach; Jessi, Jessie, and Jessy; Allie and Aly; Katie and Katy; and Izzie, Izzy, and Izzi, it can be confusing.  I have just over 150 students, so I do occasionally make mistakes with nicknames.

My grandmother, who only had 9 grandchildren total, never learned how to spell my name. This is not my name, but it is as though my name is Katharine, and my grandmother always spelled it Catherine. And this wasn't due to dementia or lack of contact with her. I saw her at least once per month for the vast majority of my life.[/quote]

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