It's spelt RUBENS!!!!

[Bagwan]

His name , in cheers from the crowd , is Rubinho .

I try to spell correctly , and wouldn't think of using a spell check feature . I'm old school , man . It's dictionary city for me .
Damn new fangled button things just don't have the feel of the page .
I get a good laugh out of some of the spelling and grammatical errors here , but I won't chide anyone for language .
As long as the post can get the point across , I don't really see a problem .

I'll tell you what irks me .
It's the damned announcers that can't seem to say Robert Kubica's name correctly .
In fact , I don't think I've ever heard his name spoken correctly by any announcer yet .

I certainly don't think it's worth getting all mad about .
I wouldn't spend my capitol letters on it . They cost more , don't they ?

Of course , I could be completely wrong here , as maybe spelling Rubens with an "i" is really , really insulting in Brazil(or is that Brasil?) .

[Valve Bounce]

I never understood if this was a joke or just a mistake, so many people here call him rubins..
but I make mistakes with foreign names to...
(and my english is bad)

We have too many people here who care more about spelling than having a nice, friendly and often humorous chat in the forum, I zuppoze

[Dave B]

I remember posting a similar thread about MacLaren / McClaren / McLeran / Maclaren.

It's not difficult, is it?

[christophulus]

I'll tell you what irks me .
It's the damned announcers that can't seem to say Robert Kubica's name correctly .
In fact , I don't think I've ever heard his name spoken correctly by any announcer yet .

It should be the case that at the start of the year, the drivers teach the commentators how to pronounce their name. Then have a "swear box" of sorts for everytime we get a Koo-bik-a.

Getting names wrong is a pet hate of mine though, the amount of times a company has sent me a letter with my surname spelt wrongly is just annoying . Just read what I put on the damn form!

[wmcot]

Sorry, but it had to be done.

An ellipses should only be used to indicate a trail off into silence, an unfinished thought or an omission of text.

Or really bad keyboard bounce...

[Storm]

I dislike that Rubins thing too.....more so when commentators get names wrong during F1 races, don't these guys actually do any sort of prep work?

It happens all the time in Football too(especially with sh*t channels like Ten Sports over here)

[Valve Bounce]

I dislike that Rubins thing too.....more so when commentators get names wrong during F1 races, don't these guys actually do any sort of prep work?

It happens all the time in Football too(especially with sh*t channels like Ten Sports over here)

Yeah!! they should learn how to pronounce bunsen.

[ChrisS]

Your right, langauge is the currency we deal with here on forums, people should know how to use a spellchecker for the unfortunate affliction of dyslexia or simple research copy and paste in the event of spelling someones name correctly. I've known the correct spelling is Rubbens, for years...

His name is Rubens, just one b.

With reference to spellcheckers, When Christian Klien signed for Jaguar in 2004 a lot of people, including some of the major F1 related websites were calling him Christian Klein, the reason, MS Word's spellchecker listed Klien as a misspelled word and suggested Klein as an alternative.

In the theme of misspelled names and words, Kimi's last name (using an English keyboard) is Raikkonen not Raikonnen

Also its sponsor not sponser, in fact wasn't sponser a censored word in this forum?

[Valve Bounce]

Who cares, Walter!! Who cares!!

[DexDexter]

I know what you mean but I do it with every foreign driver.

Then again, every second of all top drivers are Finns :

We Finns do speak foreign languages better than most Europeans, it's down to that.