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When I was little, I didn't know that people could have the same names. I remember going to my friend's house, and she had a babysitter named Holly; well I also had a friend named Holly who was my age, and I thought she had suddenly grown up. So I said, "How did you grow up so fast?!"
Do I feel stupid now? Oh yes.
Anna
When I was little I thought my parents hated my older sister because her name is very weird. Her name is Zaidee so I told her that she had to do something really bad to have mom name you that. I was such a brat she and my oldest sister locked me in a closet and told me my first and middle name Kyle and Ryan are boys name because they wanted a boy and got me a girl. I think my parents want their kids made fun of.
Now afraid of closets -Kyle Ryan Gabour
One Christmas, I wanted a certain doll more than anything else in the world. Every day I would tell my parents about it, or I would point it out in the store. After kindergarten one day, I came home to find a bunch of toys, including the doll, but they were all marked "ED." I cried in my room because the things I wanted were all going to some girl named Ed who I'd never even met before. I never told my mom because I wanted to be good, and Christmas morning I finally opened my presents. There were the doll and all of the other presents. My mom, amused at my surprise, proceeded to explain to me what initials were.
Emily
when i was young i couldnt pronounce my sisters name, which is silvia i used to say, wavey ! how i got this out of silvia i dont know but my son who is not 15 could not pronouce a friends name at his nursey his friends name was Elliott but Jon insisted on calling his Idiot !!!!!
suppose that is the english language for you LOL
I used to think that my middle name was actually, because my mother was always forgetting the names of her children. She would say "Suzi actually Alice could you please come here"
My name is Suzi. My sisters name is Alice.
I use to think if you had the same name as a famouse person you would be famouse.
Kiwi 200
I used to think the girls' name "Tina" was short for "Argentina".
Kristen
My parents have an old family friend named Laurette. When I was a tyke, I always got her name mixed up and called her "Roulette". It took me years to get it right. One day, while joking about my old habit, she thanked me for, "Comparing me to a gambling table!"
Jen
My younger sister used to believe that all girls were called Sarah and that we were weird because we weren't called that!
Clare
My mother is french, and my name is Marie, and the french word for husband is mari, pronounced the same way as my name. I remember getting angry at my mom for naming her little girl husband!hmm...then I met other Maries...
Marie
I used to believe that my mum's real name was actually mum, and whenever someone called her Janine I would always have to pipe up and correct them!
Jay
I used to believe that when I turn 25, the government will send me a form that said I had to change my name (it was mandatory). I decided I would change it to Lucy.
Camille Noire
I used to believe that the name Geoff (Jeff) was pronounced Gee-off and I still sometimes
mistakenly say it that way even now. Also I used to think that the name Penelope was
pronouced like Pennell-lope (with the lope part sounding like antel(lope).
Heather
I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words.
Simon
When he was small, my brother's hero was Nelson. I remember us being told that Nelson's name was really DAVID HORATIO NELSON (my brother's name is David), and we believed our parents. It was only recently when I was reading about Nelson to my own son that I queried with my husband why the name David was not mentioned in the Ladybird book - OOPS!!!!!
Sharon
I used to believe that people with the same first names were somehow related. This was particularly true with famous people.
boopy
I was around 2 when my aunt started dating the man who eventually became my uncle David. He had really long, black hair (this was the early 70's) and I thought he was the neatest person. I got a doll not long after that with long black hair and I named her David. No one bothered to correct me. I got a doll for Xmas when I was 3 and I named her Yogurt Chevrolet. I thought that was the most beautiful name in the world.
Joy
When I was small I used to go and stay with a friend called Pene. So on Monday morning when I wrote the usual “what I did at the weekend”, I would write “This weekend I went to Penis house”, I didn’t know how to write Pene’s so would just join the words pen and is together. Looking back on it I’m surprised my parents weren’t arrested, and I wasn’t taken into care :)
A H
when i was young, i thought all people with the same name would grow up to look the same.
kim
At first school, I envied anyone with what I saw as a cool name. Kimberly, Charmaine, Alexia, Nicola. But one girl had the coolest and quirkiest name of all. She was called Carilanne. We all wanted to be called Carilanne.
Only when I was 16 did I realise it was spelt CAROL-ANN....
silverstar1809
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