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[stars_infinity]

You know, I don't really mind if people misspell my name. I know it's weirdly spelled, and I understand that people assume it's one way. Mostly I just politely correct the mistake. Sometimes I get annoyed if people who've known me for a while continue to misspell it, but mostly I just let it slide. BUT, if you've asked me to spell out my name on a

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[anonymous]

I've had people tell me I misspelled my own name and change it from "Mercy" to "Merci"

[stars_infinity]

Well okay, but Mercy is an Americanized version of your name, right? And your name isn't technically spelled in the Latin Alphabet, is it? (I'm sort of guessing). That's forgiveable. It's hard to misspell something that doesn't translate easily into another alphabet. It's like people who ask me how you spell Chanukah--technically, it's spelled חנוכה and there's no one translitieration for that word. But my name is in the Latin Alphabet, and is it really so hard to look at how I've spelled my own name and say, "oh, it's with an 's' not a 'z?'"

Although it's kind of funny the way you've misspelled it, because it's "thanks" in French.