A friend and I had the same name, but mine was spelled "Sara", and hers was "Sarah." I thought that my name was better because it didn't have the "h" and I kept prenouncing my friend's name Sara-HUH because I didn't know the "h" was silent.
A childhood belief about names

others believed things like this
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- A friend of mine thought that some olives grew with red edible pits (pimentos).— HA
- A friend on mine thought that smoking menthal cigarettes would make his breath minty fresh.Anon
- I used to think that heater was spelled "header"(which i didn't know was pronounced hedder)— Olivia
- A friend of mine seemed to think that 100 pence was worth £6.— Richard Davies
- one of my friend's was told by his father that if you didn't turn mirrors over the reflection would run out.— pri