[Clare~Bear]

There's a group of girls at my sixth form that call me Ethel whenever I walk past them. Why !?!?!?

I walk past them and one or two of them smile and say 'Hi Ethel.' In a kinda smug way. but not nastily. My name is nothing like Ethel and only shares one letter with it.

1) my name is not Ethel

2) one of the girls is in my psychology class so should know my name after 9 months with her

3) Every time they say it, I tell them what my name is and they go 'ok'.

Just It happens maybe once a week or so cos it's a big college so I try and avoid them. It's rather annoying but just silly.

What should I do/ would you do?

I don't get angry at them - that would ammuse them and is probably what they want.

[Double Agent]

I would leave them to it, sounds like silly childish women bitching.

[Clare~Bear]

Yeah, I don't want to get angry at them - that's probably what they want as it would ammuse them further.

[xoxAngel_Kxox]

Groups of friends sometimes have private jokes that make absolutely NO sense, but probably mean no harm either. Take it from someone who's best friends used to call her "Jizz" for three years. Never did get an explanation for that.

[chickenonsteroids]

It's nothing to worry about. Especially if you rarely talk to them anyway.

[Alexx53]

They probably do it to wind you up, so I'd just ignore them.

[chinaberry]

I love Lucy?

Maybe it's like Gilmore Girls, "Mary", like school slang or something.

[tory88]

Ethel is a name some would associate with an old woman, so maybe it's a comment on your mannerisms or the way you dress. If you don't talk to them much anyway, I doesn't matter just smile at them and walk by.

[Clare~Bear]

(Original post by tory88)
Ethel is a name some would associate with an old woman, so maybe it's a comment on your mannerisms or the way you dress. If you don't talk to them much anyway, I doesn't matter just smile at them and walk by.

I am a year older than them - maybe nearly two years. I might not be the msot fashionable person, but I don't dress like an old person.

[cambio wechsel]

Let it go Ethel.

[Aesc]

If you keep telling them your real name, they'll see that you care
One way would be to pretend your name is Ethel (i.e. respond to it next time), but call them by other random names and pretend you thought those were their actual names. If it carries on, make sure you stick to the same names, however much they correct you. Make sure not to be smug/bitchy about it, just act as if you thought those were their actual names.

[Add!ction]

Do the same back. Call them names like Bernard or Gertrude.

[sarcos]

(Original post by xoxAngel_Kxox)
Groups of friends sometimes have private jokes that make absolutely NO sense, but probably mean no harm either. Take it from someone who's best friends used to call her "Jizz" for three years. Never did get an explanation for that.

Might give you an idea

[xoxAngel_Kxox]

(Original post by sarcos)
Might give you an idea

I've seen that before.. I'm well aware of what Jizz MEANS, I'm just not entirely sure what I did to deserve being named after it got quite so long!

[katyness]

(Original post by tory88)
Ethel is a name some would associate with an old woman, so maybe it's a comment on your mannerisms or the way you dress. If you don't talk to them much anyway, I doesn't matter just smile at them and walk by.

I was going to say this.

(Original post by Add!ction)
Do the same back. Call them names like Bernard or Gertrude.

LOL. What a great suggestion

[tory88]

(Original post by Clare~Bear)
I am a year older than them - maybe nearly two years. I might not be the msot fashionable person, but I don't dress like an old person.

Then it will probably be due to your mannerisms. I have a friend who we call beatrice because he acts like an old woman - shuffling around hands clasped in front of himself with a very quiet, timid voice.

[21stcenturyphantom]

(Original post by Add!ction)
Do the same back. Call them names like Bernard or Gertrude.

Do exactly this! There is a girl on my campus who calls me by a completely different name (I have a huge history of nicknames and it seems no one ever calls me by my name) and so I simply started shouting a really horrible blokes name at her every time I saw her approaching. It works, and now she bows her head in defeat whenever she walks past without saying a word. Yeah.

[brendonbackflip]

(Original post by Add!ction)
Do the same back. Call them names like Bernard or Gertrude.

But what if one of them is actually called Gertrude?

[briesandwich]

I would just say a friendly 'Hi' back to them and carry on with my day. If they intend to pee you off then doing the opposite should bore them soon enough!

[Bellissima]

ignore it... sounds like some kind of bitchy jibe... i don't get it though pretty immature/childish...