Here are 60 mis-spellings of my surname WORNUM, which I have collected since 1981 from filming schedules, envelopes, letters, invoices, airline tickets, notes, memos, emails, cards\u00a0 and other kinds of documents addressed to me. Yes, I know, the obvious question is “Why?” but then I don’t collect stamps or follow a football team or build model aircraft; everyone should be allowed one minor hobby and this one is mine.<\/p>\n
Some of them you just would not believe, but even when the name is spelled out for people, somewhere along the line it just goes totally wrong.<\/p>\n
MORNUM, VORNUM, WARDUM, WARENHAM, WARHAM, WARNER, WARNUAM, WARNUM, WARNUN, WENUM, WEORNUM, WERHAM, WERMAN, WERMUN, WERNHAM, WERNHEM, WERNUM, WHERNHAM, WODNUM, WOENUM, WOFNUN, WOKNUM, WOMAN, WOMUM, WOMUN, WORBUM, WORDNUM, WORJUM, WORKMAN, WORMAN, WORMANN, WORMUM, WORMUN, WORNAM, WORNEM, WORNHAM, WORNHUM, WORNIUM, WORNNUM, WORNM, WORNON, WORNUAM, WORNUGA, WORNUN, WORNUW, WORNVM, WORORNUM, WORRAM, WORRELL, WORRNUM, WORTHAM, WORTOM, WORUM, WORWUM, WOTNUM, WURHUM, WURNHAM, WURNOM, WURNUM, WYMAN.<\/p>\n
Aren’t they great? My favourite is WORNUGA; (from an invoice from a firm of locksmiths) and if I ever wanted to change my name…<\/p>\n
Curiously enough, the one spelling I have not yet had attributed to me is WORNOM, the variation in use by a sizeable number of people in the U.S.A.<\/p>\n
In case anyone wonders how to pronounce Wornum correctly, the British Wornums use this rule: the first syllable is the stressed one and the surname is pronounced as if was spelled “WUR-num” and not<\/span> “WAR-num”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are 60 mis-spellings of my surname WORNUM, which I have collected since 1981 from filming schedules, envelopes, letters, invoices, airline tickets, notes, memos, emails, cards\u00a0 and other kinds of documents addressed to me. Yes, I know, the obvious question is “Why?” but then I don’t collect stamps or follow a football team or build […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-224","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wornum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wornum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wornum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wornum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wornum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.wornum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/www.wornum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wornum.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}