re: Let me tell you the story of a guy at my work named Don.

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called him Chris. He loudly corrected me and said "my name is CHRISTOPHER!" It was a big WTF moment.

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That's fricked up. My name can be shortened in a similar way and I've always preferred the long/complete version, but never once I have corrected anyone about it.

In fact, people always misspell my name. It has a rather unique spelling (not in a black way, it is spelled the way my Scandinavian ancestors would've spelled it) and 99 times out of 100 I just let people spell it how they want. What's the point of correcting people?