Do professors get mad if you accidentally misspell their name in an email?

My last name is often misspelled as "Corman."  I'm used to it.  It's when my name is misspelled in some other way that I really notice, e.g., "Coreman."

My favorite misspelling occurred in my first year at Dartmouth.  We named our computers after peaks in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and I named my computer "monroe," after Mt. Monroe, one of my favorite summits.  Students would get email from thc@monroe.cs.dartmouth.edu, and I had one student address me as "Professor Monroe."  Yeah, you got the number of letters right, but that was about it.

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