names

i used to believe that people were related by their first names...my grandp, ungle, and my cousin's names were Ernie, my dad and my brother's names were Todd, and my unlce and cousin's names were Sam. They were all on my mom's side of the family, thus they had different last names. Now you can see why I was so confused as a kid....

Anon

when i was in grade 3 i asked a girl what her name was she didnt listen to me so she said "have this doll" cause she was talking to her other friend so all i was calling her "have this doll" she kept staring at me weird

Girl with issues :)

I though that everyone with the same name was the same person, like everybody named "Tom" was Tom from Tom and Jerry, ect.

Anon

When I was a kid I found it hard to say "Sebastian". I always pronounced it "Sebastican".

Dave, Lancashire

when i was a child, i used to believe that all the parents were obliged to give to thir sons the names with the same initials just because my bro and me have the same initial.

Anon

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

Andy

I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words.

Simon

i used 2 think dat if ur name was molly you grew up to hav lots of moles, but then i saw this person named molly who had no moles

molly

my friend thought the man in the chip shop on Frank Street must logically be called Frank!....otherwise how could it be Frank St chip shop?!

Paula Alcock

i believed that our neighbour's name was 'whatchamacallit' because my dad always referred to him so, forgetting his actual name.

you can imagine my confusion when he referred so someone else as 'whatchamacallit'.

sweetfreak

When I was a kid I believed that everyone was given a new first name when they became an adult. It just seemed to me that kids had different names than adults.

John

I'd heard about Bin Laden on the news a few years ago and I thought his son was Osama Bin Laden..I got very confused!!

Lauraaaaa

I used to believe I was named after a tree part. My middle name is Lynn, which, to a four-year-old, sounds a lot like tree limb. I was always upset at my parent for such a lame name even after I found out its proper pronounciation and that it had nothing to do with trees.

Tracy

I used to believe that when you hit adulthood that you had to change your name to something like Betty or Anne, because little kids aren't called names like that.

Jill

my little sister, whose name is anna, used to think "anoraks" were really called "annaraks", so mine would be a "tiarak", our dad's a "paparak" and so on...

Anon

My brother thought that one adult was a dult and that one alert was a lert.

Anon

When I was a little girl I thought that people with the same first name were related.

Sue

I used to think that everybody had to change their name on their 21st birthday. I was going to change mine to Miss Violet

Erin

I used to believe that Will Smith's name wasn't Will Smith, but that it was World Smith.

Scott

I used to think the name Ludwig was pronounced luh-dwig when I saw it on a sheet music paper.

Anonymous girl