Originally Posted by seclark (Post 15664606)

not always a good thing, though.
had a neighbor w/a speech problem that pronounced my name "salt cock".
people still call me that:mad:
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Originally Posted by htismaqe (Post 15664577)

It's Brain.

Of course.

Originally Posted by KC_Lee (Post 15664648)

It's pronounced Do-Moss

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 15664556)

Over the course of our lives, we'll regularly encounter people who get our name wrong. It just happens, and it's no big deal.

However, when people forget my name, they disproportionately call me Brian. (Or maybe Bryan, I can't tell.) This is not a coincidence, because it's really disproportionate. We're talking probably 50 percent of the time, when someone gets my name wrong, they call me Brian/Bryan.

There must be a reason for this. What's the reason?

I'll post a few of my theories in a poll, but other theories are welcome. I need to solve this mystery.

Originally Posted by digger (Post 15664579)

When people get my name wrong, they change letters and remove letters. Never been called something totally wrong, because they get parts right... just miss on the whole name...

Originally Posted by mililo4cpa (Post 15664731)

Same with me....add and delete letters all the time....

Maybe that’s Rainman’s problem: people selectively eliminate all the actual letters of his real name, and then add the letter B-R-I(Y)-A-N....with the net result Brian

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 15664734)

Yeah, the second syllable of Brian/Bryan is kind of right. So it's like they remember the back half of the name and then play the odds on filling in the first syllable.

Originally Posted by mililo4cpa (Post 15664740)

Maybe when you introduce yourself, your brain hears the full version, but the listener hears “Brrrrrrrrb-AN”, so they take a shot and call you Brian in hopes that’s what that strange sound meant?