Yesterday was an all time high for our little digital marketing agency. We managed to reach the holy grail of naming errors: “What could be the worst mangled version of the company name possible?”
Someone called us ‘World Wide Cremators’ yesterday
Let me explain the context. Over the past 6 years or so, since we’ve been in existence, we’ve been called all kind of things. It’s funny how people can get your name wrong – especially when repeating it back to you over the phone. The wierd thing is, people get it wrong almost every time with us. I don’t know what we’re doing wrong, but it seems no one can get our name right.
Trying saying it yourself. ‘World WIde Creative.’ Three simple words. Not that hard to get right… right?
Wrong!
Here are some examples from over the years:
- World War Creators
- Woolberg Creditors
- World Wide Warlords
- Worldwide Creators
- Worldly Wide Credit
- Woolly Widespread Distributors
- World Web Creators
- World Word Creatives
- World of Warcraft
- World Watercoolers
It’s gotten so bad that now, when I repeat our name, I spell our name immediately afterwards, since I know that there’s a 99% chance of the person on the other end getting it wrong.
World Wide Cremators?
Awesome stuff.
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Hahahaha – try being named Nicholas Haralambous
Use your imagination, there are umpteen dirty variations of that name.
HA – big time.
Nic I think when I first heard about you, I thought: ‘Wow, Nic Houmous – great name!’