[bbfan1991]

A woman was outraged after a Starbucks misspelled the name 'Virginia' as 'Vagina'.

The customer at the coffee shop in Hong Kong ranted on their Facebook page, calling the error "unacceptable".



"This is my sister's cuppa from your HKU branch," she posted. "Fancy your staff not being able to spell an American name like Virginia. Forgiving she has been with every misspelled cup.

"Her cup was once 'Virgin'. Every Starbucks experience for her has been coupled with fear and anticipation. But THIS is just UNACCEPTABLE.

"Starbucks HK, you have to buck up or just not spell your customer's name anyway. It is a derogatory attitude even if it is unintentional. What do you have to say about this?"

Reaction to the post from other Facebook users has been mixed, with some arguing that it is perhaps harsh to expect perfect spelling from local Chinese staff.

Bunch of ******s.

[Niamh.]

[Vanessa]

[Patrick]

The woman is a ******ing loser for even taking the time to take a photo and rant about it. This is why I hate people.

Starbucks 1 > Silly Woman 0

[Me. I Am Salman]

her thumb is scary

[Cherie]

The Starbuck's employees amusing themselves to pass the time

[Marcus.]

oh dear

[Ryan57]

Lol, outraged at this. Guess censoring on porn doesn't help.

[King Gizzard]

i was in there with my dad about 2 weeks ago and they spelt his name Drick

[King Gizzard]

Whenever I go in there there's about 6 or 7 nationalities working there all in a line, quite amazing how they do it but they are awful at spelling names alot of the time Lol

[Ramsay]

she obviously just wrote it herself to get likes

[Livia]

Firstly, Virginia an "American name"? Secondly... get over it.

[arista]

The Name I give to them

is Costa
or
Greggs

[Apple202]

typical american

[Saph]

[Vicky.]

What a fanny

[Jordan.]

Every Starbucks experience for her has been coupled with fear and anticipation.

This has to be a joke

[Lee.]

It saddened me that she doesn't find this hilarious! What's happened to people's sense of humour. Folk are too easily outraged these days.

[Marc]

Tbh I'd have laughed it off

[lostalex]

Oh so when it's an AMERICAN name i's okay to have a bit of a laugh, but if some black woman came in named Shannon and i wrote SHANIQUA on her cup i'd be a racist? Well I would be if i did that.

Virginia doesn't look or sound like Vagina. It was obviously intentional. **** that racist bitch.

[Glenn.]

It was Josy's cup of coffee

[Livia]

Originally Posted by lostalex

Oh so when it's an AMERICAN name i's okay to have a bit of a laugh, but if some black woman came in named Shannon and i wrote SHANIQUA on her cup i'd be a racist? Well I would be if i did that.

Virginia doesn't look or sound like Vagina. It was obviously intentional. **** that racist bitch.

To be fair, I expect Vagina wouldn't have known how to spell the server's name.

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Livia

To be fair, I expect Vagina wouldn't have known how to spell the server's name.

well she lives in China, so she probably would have, or do you just assume that all Americans overseas can't speak the language of the country they go to?

So many stereotypes in just 1 thread.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by lostalex

well she lives in China, so she probably would have, or do you just assume that all Americans overseas can't speak the language of the country they go to?

So many stereotypes in just 1 thread.

I'd lay a couple of quid on the fact that she'd struggle to spell the server's name in the native language. That's not a pop at Americans. I'm not suggesting there are many Brits that could. I just think this was a huge overreaction that should have been laughed off, and because such an issue was made it makes her look whiney and superficial.