When I looked in the Chicago phone book and found all kinds of people with first names like Jas, Thos and Chas, I asked my Mom how come we didn't know anybody with those names. ... That's when I learned about abbreviations.
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- At the age of around five, I realized that my mum's and dad's names were not mum and dad!— yelloworpurple
- I used to believe my parents names were mom and dad till i was 9— Sophiae
- As my parents had given me a name, I thought that it was up to me to give them names tooAnon
- When I was very young, I believed that my parents actual names were "mum" and "dad". — Margo
- I used to believe that India and Indonesia were right next to each other since their names sounded alikeAnon
- I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words. — Simon