Oops.

I really do make extra effort to spell people's names correctly, simply because people misspell my last name every damn day.

When I married my husband, one of his sisters said to me, "Your last name isn't Book, it's Book, B-O-O-K, Book", in other words saying the name, and then spelling it and then saying it again. My sis-in-law was not kidding. And kinda like in a spelling bee, sometimes I even have to use it in a sentence. If I didn't, people would almost always want to spell it Buck or Bush. Not only that, but people mispronounce it every day. Unbelievable. It's spelled and said exactly the way people spell it and say it every day; it's not some foreign strangeness. It really isn't rocket science.

[My last name isn't really Book, but it IS an extremely common word, much in the same manner as "book".]

So when I read Jordon Cooper's post today calling our attention to the frequent misspelling of his name, I cringed.

No, I couldn't possibly be one of those stupid people! It's not true! I'm far more observant than that!

Well, I went back through my posts and did a search. It turns out, I AM one of those stupid people.

It was an honest mistake, a short-circuit of my generally amazingly awesome observational skills. Somewhere in the deepest recesses of my mind there is a little voice that is saying, "I told you so, but you wouldn't listen".

Jordon, please accept my sincere apologies. It must be pretty annoying to have your name plastered all over the net; how much worse must it be when people misspell it, thousands of times over the freakin' net.

So for the record, my sidebar and I stand corrected.

[Ironically, I have always managed to spell Scot McKnight with only one t, never once slipping up. Go figure.]

Edit: One obesrvation; after doing a Google search, I find some pretty smart and important people have made the same mistake. So I plead Murphy's Law: "If many people make the same mistake, no one is to blame". Or something like that.