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My dad's friend's name is Mac. I used to think his name was short for Macadamia(as in macadamia nut)

My mom told me that eddy means whirlpool and i thought i had a whirlpool in me because my name is eddy

I once met a kid at the park named Wolfgang. Since I was very small(like 3 or 4), I could not pronounce his name right, so I called him "Loafgang" instead. I just thought that he liked bread

I used to think that once you became a parent, you had to change your name to "Mom" or "Dad", and that it could not be reversed.

I was named Caillou after the cartoon character of the same name. I was very upset when I overheard someone say Caillou was bad, because I thought they didn't like me for some reason!

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That the girls name Giselle was pronounced with a hard G sound instead of a J sound.

When i was a little kid, I couldn't get my aunt Nancy's name right, so i called her aunt Shenzy instead.

When I was a kid in elementary school, I saw the title "Madam" on a door in the school hallway. I didn't know what it meant, so I assumed it was a man's name, like "Adam".

I thought that the teacher in that class was a man like my dad. I got disappointed when i took french class and i saw a french woman as my teacher instead of a cool man. I got so angry and disappointed that i almost made her cry!

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In kindergarten, there was a boy with a quite uncommon name. I felt so sorry for him, because he had a name that (as I thought) didn't even exist!

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I used to think that i was the oldest kid of my family because my birthday came first

— The youngest of kidspeople : birthdays

When I was a teenager, I used to believe that someone's name-day occured as half-birthday.

— Marcaspeople : names

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I used to believe that the name Giselle was pronounced "gazelle"

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When I turned 6 on June 6, I thought that the following year my birthday would be on June 7, and the year after that it would be on June 8 etc.

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