I guess yes, I had never considered that, it makes me feel a little more sympathetic towards them. I have a buddy who used to call me Ni-Diet-cola, which was entertaining for about 12 seconds.

Heh, this seems to have jump started my own little rant. I also hate it when you tell people your name, and then immediatley say a nickname, and there's no way they could have misheard: "Hi, I'm Nicola" "Nicky?" "NO YOU FOOL, NICOLA (with big glarey eyes of doom)"

Generally I think that a person can be rellied upon to know her own name, and introduce herself with that.