𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴! 𝗜'𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿! 𝘄𝘄𝘄.𝘇𝘇𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘆.𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Can a Teacher mark you wrong for spelling a name differently?

We all know that spelling of names is subjective. In the past, it was wrong because of a spelling mistake or wrong pronunciation that is projected into words.

When I was in Kindergarten/ Primary school, during English lesson, I would tend to get some of the names wrong and I will lose marks. =(

[Re-enacted =P]

 

One of my favorite names I like to use was “John” and no matter how careful I was, I always spelt it as “Jhon” so I stopped using that name to avoid losing marks due to “careless mistake” to Jack or Bala or Siti or something.

Little did I know, more than 20years in the future, I would be in a relationship with a man named “Jhon” So HAH! I am correct after all. ‘Cher! I want my marks back!!!

But now, to spell names differently is somewhat is an in-thing where the parents would purposely change the spelling to stand out also known as homonyms; different spelling but sounds the same.

Example:

Syikin > Shikin > Shikyn

Brian > Bryan > Brien

So do teachers still mark a student as wrong when a name is not spelled the textbook way?

Is it wrong to do so?

P/S: I don't have to try to write in kiddy handwriting, that was my actual handwritting and marked by my Jhon. FML

7 comments

  1. In college, they still mark ur grammar leh. Don't play2

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  2. Yeah, but I am talking abt spelling of names :)

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  3. I think some teacher got nothing better to do so they decided to minus more marks!

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  4. Lol. Coz you answer everything correctly but don't want to give u a perfect score so must try to look for something else which is so caked misspelled names? Lol.

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  5. lol.. like that also can be corrected.. weird =/

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  6. That's their goal. To deduct as many marks as possible. Evil !

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  7. @Kristin yeah, perhaps some teachers are too strict

    @Juan that is terrible. =(

    @Ken lol that’s what I thought

    @Jerlyn hahahaha

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