I would spell it Zach and Zachery (the way it sounds) Zac-erry not zac-aary.
It can be very frustrating when people spell what seams obvious wrong.
There is so many different spellings for names these days I am suprised we arn't all saying 'now how do you spell that' even for the most simple sounding names.
My daughter although her first name is traditional Sarah we get Sarha at times???? and her middle name is Jayne and every one puts that as the traditional jane.
My name is spelt Eron instead of erin, I commonly get told 'oh, I though you were a bloke' if they see my name spelt before they meet me.
Id have spelled it with an A too, just from hearing it, but once you tell people how to spell it they should get it right IMO, at least most of the time. Its not that unusual.
My name is Rachael and is always mispelled as Rachel by most people, but they usually get it right after a while - I find family are worse than friends/colleagues.
I'd spell it with an "a" too, but that's because it's my nephew's name also and that's how his name is spelt! I know how you feel though, Kieran gets his name spelt as Kieren or Keiran or Keiren...gah!
Hope you can make the meet up tomorrow, I'd love to meet Zach
Sorry, my initial instinct was Zachary, but then I would do Zach for short. But I'm always one to ask spelling before I write it, as there is so many ways of spelling names now (learnt this particularly from working in a bank). I had a surname which was always miss spelt (and it was a spell it as you would say it name)...at first it was frustrating but it became no big deal. I would say just point it out everytime they spell it wrong, eventually those people will learnt to ask everyone the spelling of there name (like I learnt to do).
It's annoying, and it happens with so many names. My DD Coco gets Cocoa all the time. NO she is not chocolate powder...............GGGRRR. I just end up spelling all our names every time!!
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