Help me Phrase This

Post date: 2018-04-21 07:03:11

A person keeps changing my preferred name in an email chain and I don't know how to correct it, firmly, politely and once and for all without distracting from the content of the conversation but before everyone else decides to use the wrong name for me, too. Not a gender issue, just a manners one.

I have a common in the US woman's first name that comes with a variety of nicknames. Assume "Elizabeth"--I use the full fancy "Elizabeth" version professionally; my family and social circle through my family use the child's diminutive nickname "Lizzie". UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES EVER DOES ANYONE CALL ME "LIZ" (except my ex-husband).

I'm very good at correcting people in person but I'm stuck in an email chain for a volunteer gig (that I was brought into through a family member thus as "Lizzie") with someone who clearly thinks that no grown woman uses a child's nickname and keeps responding to things I sign as "Lizzie" with "Liz". I don't know when I will next be in the same room with this person and I need this to stop but I don't know who to handle this in a text, not personal, environment.

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