I was named Elizabeth, after my aunt. My family has always called me Beth, and she went by Betty. I always thought that when you were named Elizabeth, everyone called you Beth when you were little; and when you were an old lady, they called you Betty. I'm 32 now, and i'm still waiting for people to start calling me Betty.
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- When I was little I used to believe that all old women were called Betty!!— Katie
- I used to believe that Marilyn Monroe and Betty Boop were the same person.— Madame Butterfly
- I used to believe that everyone had the same middle name as me... Elizabeth.
(even my uncles)— K.O. - I used to believe that people from Holland were called "Hollish", like people from Poland are called "Polish"— Sally
- I believed that the breed of dog called Boxer was called that because they could stand up and box.Anon
- I used to think that adult kangaroos were called Kangas and that child kangaroos were called Roos. Anon