Using another name

Originally Posted by timwilky

Can be even more confusing when you forget they have a different name. I went to see a mate in hospital to be told he wasn't there. Phoned his home to be told he was still in. They knew him as Paul, yet I who have only known him for 40 years knew him as Terry. You would have thought they would have said but we have a Paul Valiant when I ask for Terry Valiant

Surely it would be a data protection breach??

my fella uses his middle name but he doesn't know why- only that his mum and dad never called him by his first name so he doesn't answer to it. I think they may have bee "obliged" to give him a name they didn't like

p.s hi everybody again, still riding

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Funnily enough this has just come up at my work - out of 150 people there are 5 who dont use their real first names - choosing to use their middle names - was a bit of a pain as I had set a new person up with their given name and they ring me up asking to change it all!

My last name is the best - Plows - Plows the field. Stu-pot (love that one)

Whats more annoying is when you dont have a middle name and people go realllyyyyyy im like yer, theyre like why....Grrrrr

Originally Posted by jenni

p.s hi everybody again, still riding

Where did you go? Still got an SV? It's funny when names from the past pop up on forums!

We have a few people here who's login names do not tally with their actual name and they are also using their middle names. Without explanation.

I don't use my first name, it begins with W and I HATE it, hate my middle name too, which is Louise, so everyone calls me Lou!
It is a pain when you change jobs, as everyone starts off with the proper name, but all have got used to Lou now!

I've given my daughter two middle names, and she can use whichever she likes, but does happen to like her first name!

Lou x

my other half goes by the name of 'Bob' when it comes to anything to do with booking restaurant tables, car hire, etc. His real name is Etienne, but noone ever catches it the first time, and they always spell it wrong too. He came to the consclusion that every nationality knows the name Bob, and funnily enough he never has to spell it either!

oh, and I also have a few Indian friends who have two names, an 'official' one and one they use on a day-to-day basis - it's a tradition/cultural thing

believe it or not hovis is not my first name

but thats what it says on my name badge in work (which i have been told to change, on more than one occasion

My grandad's name was Peter, but some people called him Pat (He was irish)... Pretty strange to me.

I don't like my first name and would prefer to be called by my second - Elizabeth, Beth for short, but it's not something I've ever tried implementing.

Originally Posted by Fizzy Fish

His real name is Etienne, but noone ever catches it the first time, and they always spell it wrong too.

My surname is Hall, which you would think would be simple, but without fail the exact same thing happens to me on the phone when I say my name!!!

It often gets spelt wrong and I get variations from Horne, Hull, Hoare, etc.

I have had to resort to spelling it directly after I say it so that I don't have to bother with repeating it.