Woman's name spelt wrong her entire life - so she changed it

We've all felt that annoyance when the Starbucks barista spells our name wrong, or when a coworker replies to an email and misspells your name despite it being written plainly in your email signature. Well, for one woman she became so frustrated at others misspelling her name that she paid to change it.

An original article by The Sun revealed a woman whose name is now Liz Johnson grew frustrated at others constantly getting her name wrong.

"My name has been spelled wrong my whole life – no matter what it was." 

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Part of the reason was that her mum kept changing the spelling of her name.

"My mother decided to change the spelling of it when I was 10 after having it changed from birth 4 times (Christie, Cristie, Kristie, Kristi)."

The misspellings continued after she took her partner's surname, and even when she chose her name and paid to have it changed.

She found the constant issues extremely disrespectful. 

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"For me, the reason it's irksome is it shows people could not give a f— about you," she wrote on social media, "You're just another cog in the wheel of life."

"Whether it's people I know or don't know, my own HR department, my own father or the clerk at the service station… if they don't spell my name correction (even when it's written in text and they're transcribing it), I have little respect for them."

In one final admonishment, she said, "It's just plain rude!"