Trust me; I live here. A tale of mis-spelling (told in collage)

Hello there.

In the scheme of things, what I'm going to raise with you today isn't a major issue.

In fact, it's such a minor woe that I doubt it would even register as a frivolous #FirstWorldProblem. Because it's smaller problem than that; a much more localised issue.

Very local - to me - in fact.

And yet I know I'm not the only one who's afflicted by it. Maybe you've been affected by it where you live. Or maybe it's not where you live ... but who you are; your name I mean ...


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Because, the thing is ...

... people misspell my address. Often. [I know! It's heart-breaking isn't it?]

 Whenever I cast my eyes across any mail I receive my proof-reading eye can't help but notice the errors. And I try not to care ... and yet ... and yet ...

In the town name people regularly add in an extra letter where one doesn't belong. There's only one 'O' in it. I assure you.

But more often than that, in another word, people miss out another letter that really should be there!

There are two 'S'es in Teesside. Honestly.

Just think of it as meaning: an area that's at the 'side' of the river 'Tees' ... because that's precisely what it does mean.  Therefore it needs two 'S'es to make any sense, otherwise the river would have to be called the Tee. Which it isn't.

But look .. I'm a pretty reasonable human. I'm not really expecting everyone to automatically know how to spell town names they might never have heard of before. So I only reserve my disappointment for those who I know must have had my address in front of them when they copied it out, and yet they still changed it around. And do you know why that's the aspect of all this that really truly bugs me?

Because it makes me suspect that they think that I'm the one who's spelt it incorrectly in the first place!  

And, if there's one thing I like less than someone getting my address wrong ... it's them thinking that I did!!

But hey ... like I say ... it's not such a big deal really. Live and let live eh?

I mean it's not like I was so bothered by it that I went to all the effort of documenting my frustrations via the medium of collage, and then blogging about it ...  is it? Oh ... 

 

So  ... over to you ... tell me I'm not alone!

• What turns you into an irrational spelling pedant?
• Do you have a name / location that no one ever gets right?

Feel free to vent [politely, if it's all the same to you] in the comments!

Julie :-)

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p.s: Yes I'm aware that, after writing this post, spelling-karma will come round to bite me the next time I have to copy out a customer's address onto a parcel! Trust me I'm going to be proof-reading like my life depended on it from now on ...