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There’s nothing as entertaining as watching kids navigate through the big complex world. From an early age, they start meeting new people, socializing with other kids and adults, learning how the social cues and norms work in practice.
That’s where things may get a teeny tiny bit confusing for the little ones. “My 8yo daughter met a girl at summer camp last year named 'Internet.' I said no way, that can't be her name but my daughter has been adamant,” tweeted writer and mom Brianne M. Kohl and added that “For almost a year we've been having this discussion.”
Turns out, the name of that girl from the summer camp was “Antoinette.” The thread immediately blew up on Twitter with many parents sharing similar experiences about their kids getting the names totally wrong. Even adults joined in the fun and shared times they embarrassed themselves by getting confused by people's names.
Below we selected some of the most chuckle-worthy tweets that prove getting a name absurdly wrong is apparently a common occurrence in the children's kingdom.
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Sarah Parker 3 years ago
By far my favourite on this thread, I love it. Bless her heart! My Nan has her own words for lots of things, and if she can't say someone's name she'll use one that she thinks sounds similar. My best friend of 22 years is called Kirstyn, Nan has always called her Christine..
We spoke with Samantha A. Deffler, an Assistant Professor Of Psychology at York College of Pennsylvania, who shared some very interesting insights into her research about the misnaming phenomenon. “In surveys of people from a range of ages and backgrounds, we found that misnaming of familiar people was rather common,” she said.
“To be more specific, a sample of undergraduates showed over half reported being misnamed and about 1/3 reported committing misnaming. Of those who had been misnamed, most (95%) said they had been called the wrong name by a family member,” Deffler explained.
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“My colleagues and I think that this phenomenon demonstrates how people organize information about those that they know - people tended to mistake family members for other family members, probably because they were grouping these individuals together in their minds.”
Moreover, according to Deffler, ‘cross-group’ mistakes were less common “because people from different categories of our lives (e.g., family vs. friends) are not typically associated with each other in our minds.” More broadly, Deffler believes that their findings also point out “that our cognition, particularly our memories, can be flawed - people make naming mistakes even with names that they know really really well, and that is OK and normal!”
Deffler and her team of researchers surveyed people from a lot of different backgrounds and asked them both about being the object of misnaming and the person who committed the misnaming. “We found a range of results for how often older family members misnamed younger family members, but that is likely an artifact of our sample - some of our participants were younger adults without children. We did not specifically look at parent to child misnaming, but our results do allow me to answer this question,” she explained.
It turns out that most misnaming occurred between two family members and for 3 of our 4 samples, “this misnaming showed a large age effect - family members who were older misnamed younger family members. Anecdotally, a lot of these examples were parents misnaming their children with a string of sibling names,” Deffler concluded.
Meanwhile, Lynn How, the experienced educator and author of “Positive Young Minds” and this Facebook teacher coaching group told Bored Panda that how hard it is for a child to get a stranger's name right depends on the individual child and complexity of a name. “Young children are unable to form some sounds so end up calling people by a simpler name e.g. auntie Charlotte might become auntie Lot Lot. Children need repetition to store names in their memory so until a stranger becomes a friend, then it might be tricky to recall their name unless they have an amazing memory,” she explained.
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Lily bloom 3 years ago
My daughter accidentally wrote some erotica in third grade last year. She uses talk-to-text and has a very squeaky voice. She began a reading response with "it was jeremy's..." but the program heard "penis gummies". I'm glad I checked her homework that day before she submitted it (I didn't always). I did tell her teacher later because it was too funny not to share and also as a warning that talk-to-text does not always hear my daughter correctly.
Legen ( wait for it ) dary 3 years ago
🤣🤣🤣 That's indeed is way too funny. Thanks for sharing.
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Antony Aston 3 years ago
My friend, also a preschool teacher caller Veronica, gets called Honker - and it stuck with her friends too - we all call her Honker!
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 years ago
A colleague of mine who has since retired was often called odd things by her Grade 1s. Her name is Ayres. She was called "Mrs S", "Mrs Ass" and variations on that.
Judi Sherosky 2 years ago
Love it! My friend had a kid who could not say Truck...it came out F***. He hollered in a store once "I want a F***. We yelled you cannnot have a TRUCK to clear the suspition!
CultOfBambi 3 years ago
A school friend of mine's uncle had a housekeep called Regina - but she misheard and called her Vagina, loudly, in front of the whole extended family. I think they probably still tease her about it now and it was 25 years ago.
Lindsey Judd-Bruder 3 years ago
My sister's name is Erica, but my husband sometimes calls her Erotica, lol. It's a running joke.
The Doors #1 Fan 3 years ago
We once had a teacher called Mr Wirt, and everyone would say Mr Wart for some reason
When asked how common naming mistakes are among adults and kids, Lynn said they’re very common, especially if we see someone out of context. “If I see a student in a shop, I might not be able to recall who they are even though I would in school,” she said.
Lynn continued: “Some people are better at recognizing faces, not names. If the name is unfamiliar and complex, it will be more challenging to recall it unless you have committed it to memory with a conscious effort. This can be tricky as people can be quite upset when you can’t remember! I try to get round this by not using their name when I greet them and ask questions that might give me hints without letting on!”
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According to Lynn, the best activity for remembering names on a recent course was to spend 45 minutes with each participant discussing the origin and importance of their names. “I embedded 15 names in my memory easily with this exercise—this has never happened before,” she laughed.
It's no secret that parents and teachers mix up kids' names very often. Lynn said that this is quite normal. She quoted Deffler, a cognitive scientist who states that, “It's a normal cognitive glitch. It's not related to a bad memory or to aging, but rather to how the brain categorizes names. It's like having special folders for family names and friends names stored in the brain. When people used the wrong name, overwhelmingly the name that was used was in the same category, was in the same folder.”
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Jayne Kyra 3 years ago (edited)
My favourite YT gamer is Jesse C*x. And bet they will censor out the surname on BP. EDIT: Damn this ridiculous censorship. Anyway, if anyone likes to watch/listen to game playthroughs, I do recommend Jesse C0x, or at least his earlier work.
#21
Jayne Kyra 3 years ago (edited)
Does the name 'Paul' not exist in the USA? How different is the pronunciation? I mean, Paul Walker was from California. EDIT: Guys, please stop arguing...
#22
Leslie Burleson 3 years ago
Lol .. my daughter was four and she was telling me her arm saws hurt . It took me a bit and then I realized she meant her shoulder blades !
#24
Daniel Atkins 3 years ago
You can tell by the way i stand at the dock I'm a Woman's man it's time to dock. . .
#29
Vanta Black 3 years ago
He used to be called Graype but one day he stayed out in the sun too long.
#32
Amy Watkins 3 years ago
Reminds me of the time my cousin (early 20s) had missed a phone call from a friend to announce she'd had her baby. Her teenage brother took the call instead -- and when he was informing his sister of the news, of course she asked, "What did they name the baby?" The brother replied, "I dunno. Something like May I Have A Cookie." The baby's name was Mahalia Corrine.
#33
Black Pearl 🇺🇦 3 years ago
I know a girl named Landrey and a few of my friends call her Laundry instead. They used to joke about us being in a lesbian relationship bc they know I hate jokes like that and they would say "Did you do Laundry last night?"
#42
Lily Langtry 3 years ago
My friend Erin's dad always called marigolds "eringolds" while she was growing up, so sweet.
#43
Aidan Pite 3 years ago
I actually do know someone whose first name is Princess, so it's not a crazy assumption.
#45
Lily Langtry 3 years ago
Ha, I love it. When I was 3, I kept calling my mom's friend Tish "Tush" instead and didn't understand why they were cracking up...
#51
Gretchen Esquilin 3 years ago
LMAO I did this w/ my sister's friend. I thought her name was Tuna Cole b/c whenever I'd ask where she was going, she'd say, "To Nicole's...." LOL
#52
IrrelevantNonsense 3 years ago
poor reece, being called 'greasy' can be a huge insult if used correctly.
#53
Amy Watkins 3 years ago
I remember a coworker telling a story of how she dropped off her son Blake for his first day of school, and when she went to pick him up, all his classmates were waving goodbye and shouting, "Bye Blank! Bye Blank!!"
#61
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
I've heard "memaw" and "pepaw" as grandma and grandpa quite a few times.
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M O'Connell 3 years ago
If anything should changed, a space needs to be added so "Danger" is her middle name!
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Sleazy Weaver 3 years ago
look, even if it's a kid, why would you try to correct him on his name? it's his name, he's grown up hearing it & learning it. i think he knows how his own damn name is pronounced, even if it isn't how the name is usually said.
#79
Rachel Hall 3 years ago
My grandsons first word is Dildo. Clear as day, he calls everything dildo, I'm hoping he's trying to say Willow, which is his dogs name. Rather embarrassing when we went out for lunch with my Dad and my grandson kept calling him dildo 🤦
#84
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Two of my grandfather's brothers were Laurie and Maurie. I found it funny they would have such similar sounding ones. Then I found out they were their nicknames, their real names were Lawrence and Maurice.
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Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
Lol and the daughter didn't even try to correct her 😆 she must've been chuckling every time her mom said "Martha"
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Q B F T 3 years ago
Met a girl in Seoul - "I'm Su-Hai". "Nice to meet you Su-Hai." Hung out for a few days before she said, "Why do you always call me 'Su-Hai'? It's just 'Su'". Turns out she said "I'm Su, hi." She wasn't good at pauses.
K Witmer 3 years ago
My nephew would scream Fucktruck for firetruck whenever he saw or heard the truck or siren, ambulances too.
Adam Zad 3 years ago
To keep my language clean, I use a word that begins with "F" and ends with "uck." Firetruck!
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Lolly 3 years ago
My husbands friend introduced him to someone called jib a few years ago and they became great friends. 2 years later jib and his new partner come over for dinner. After a while new partner says "why do you keep calling him jib" husband "erm cos that's his name......" Turns out when introductions were made years ago first friend had a cold. JIM his name was Jim. 2 years!!!!! Don't know why he never corrected him, probably just too awkward after a while 😂
Emmydearest 3 years ago
So he said "I'm Jib" and nothing else? Like, not even a "nice to Beet you" or something?
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Troux 3 years ago (edited)
A friend of mine was studying Japanese in college and he was happy to be a host family for a visiting Japanese exchange student. Unfortunately, her flight would arrive at the same time as his appointment on the other side of town. So he asked his brother to go and pick her up from the airport. "Yeah, no problem. Uhhh, how should I greet her though?" "What do you mean?" "Well I just wanted to be able to greet her in Japanese when I see her." "Oh, I see! Well, she'll arrive in the morning, so...say 'Ohayo!' Like oh-ha-yo." "Oh...hah...yo? Like that?" "Close... Actually, it's just like Ohio! Just remember the name of the state and say that!" "Ohio!" "Perfect!" Fast forward to the day she's arriving, the brother is waiting as the tram is unloading passengers. Then he spots her through the crowd, they make eye contact and he smiles big and waves to her. Excited, he yells out to greet her just as he remembered: "Hawaii!!"
Cally Crombie 3 years ago
I asked a colleague what her son's name was, as she'd just given birth. "Urine" she said. Thinking this was rather odd but didn't want to be rude I said "urine? Uh.. nice name" turned out she had a speech impediment and her son is actually called Ewan.
Troux 3 years ago
(via Reader's Digest, probably untrue) A mother asked her young girl what she did today in Sunday School. "We learned about a cross-eyed bear named Gladly!" she responded. The mother gave her a puzzled look and questioned, "Really? That doesn't sound right..." The girl insisted, "Yeah really! We sang a song about him!" The mother then took her book of hymns and opened it up to the bookmark, finding the song 'Gladly the Cross I'd Bear.'
Kathy Pearlman 3 years ago
There's a book called Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear by Ed Mc Bain. 12th in the Matthew Hope series.
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Yu Pan 3 years ago (edited)
When my niece was a toddler, my sister (her aunt) would always call my niece "baby" every time she got back from work. So when my niece first learned how to talk, she called my sister "Baby" because she thought that's her aunt's name. She's been calling my sister "Baby" for 18 years now.
Nikole Landelius 3 years ago
My co-workers granddaughter named her baby doll Accidental, they tried throwing every other name out there but she was insistent. Her parent would get so embarrassed when people would ask her the dolls name. To this day they have no idea where she go that from.
Maxx Holifield 8 months ago
About a year and a half ago, someone joined a social group I'm in, and after barely hearing her name when I first met her, I thought her name was Desiree until someone told me it was Giselle.
Maxx Holifield 1 year ago (edited)
After meeting me only once, my friend's cousin didn't remember my name and my friend told me she called me "the white guy on TikTok" to them. Also, I met someone named Giselle about 2 or 3 months ago, and I don't know why, but I thought her name was Desirée. Sometimes she is also called Giuseppe.
Liz Strevens 2 years ago
When small, my niece used to sing "Don't cry for me, Marge and Tina."
Dana Brechwald 3 years ago
When I was a kid my mom went to a few conferences at a conference center in Monterey called Asliomar. She would say "I'm going to Asilomar!" For the longest time I thought conferences were called "silomars"
Le Ann Ratliff 3 years ago
My name is LeAnn and my younger sister's name is Lana. Our neighbor always called us both those LeAnns. Our little cousin called us both, LeLana but with his mild speech issue he pronounced it WeWana.
Alli VanHuysen 3 years ago
I once pronounced havoc "ha-vah-k" I used it properly and everything, but mispronounced it. My family will never let me live it down. I was eight.
Donna Leslie 3 years ago
I was 17 and singing along to "We're going to Ibiza" I thought all along it was "we're going to eat pizza"
Jenny Harrison 3 years ago
I spent ages on the phone telling the caller they was no one in the house called Fiona, it went on for a while until I realised he was saying he wanted to talk to ‘the owner’ 😏
Caroline Overill 3 years ago
I heard people on the tv talking about a woman called Serbertia Hern. Well I'm not in to politics. I didn't know there was an Irish politician called Sir Bertie Ahern. Incidentally, the Elvis song is DEFINITELY Goose Hill. Where people get Lucille from I just don't know. My brother was asked what the little girl next door was called when he was a tot. He thought she was called Sniffaland. Turns out she was Stephanie.
Nathan Shipman 3 years ago
When I was a kid, my family used to say words like "Doggonit" and everyone of course, says "stop" and I used to say "OOOP! Oggonit!"
Donna Cheung 3 years ago
My 3 year old insisted the boy who sits next to her in class is called "Muffin". Checked the seating plan and his name is actually Melvyn.
Peta Hurley-Hill 3 years ago
Not a name but a song.One day and heard my daughter and son ,aged about 7 and 5 singing "Ooh eye unjer why",I asked them what they were singing,They said it was that song I liked....Took me a bit to realise they were singing a Savage Garden song that goes..."Ohh I want you ,I...(don;t know if I need you) .They are now 30 and 27 and still sing it the way they used to.It's on purpose now though. lol
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Ooh, I have one! Years ago in a former job of mine I met a new co-worker who was very friendly and opened with "Hello! I'm a vet!" I was standing there thinking "Why would a vet sign up for an entry level job at a daycare centre?" Turned out her name was YVETTE. She was super nice and we were soon laughing about it.
FlamingoPanda 3 years ago
I once had a personal trainer telling me to put my heel on a spot. I put my head on that spot instead. It was too early in the morning for me, would have helped if he had said we were going to do leg stretches or something then I might have realised.
Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
My eldest came back from playgroup talking about playing with their friend P.i.s.s. It was several weeks before I found out they meant Pierce.
Kyndal T 3 years ago
Playing card games with my mom and she would always mess up. I'd ask "didn't you forget something?" and she'd cackle and yell "oh yeah! Discharge!" as she put a card in the discard pile. It always made me laugh. She would mess up common phrases too. Just weird cliches she couldn't fully remember. Lol. She taught me this: "you're going to hell in a hand basket on a slippy slide". She was a bartender and taught me so many ways to tell off men who hit on me. And she had a beautiful singing voice but she always messed up the lyrics. I still hear her voice (with the wrong lyrics) anytime I listen to music she liked. I even accidentally say "belbow" instead of elbow sometimes like she used to.
Aradia Sayner 3 years ago
When teaching swimming many years ago I had one child who always called me Radio.
Erin Grant 3 years ago
Had a 2 year old at day care named Axl, the other kids pronounced it as a*****e. Really worried some parents.
Holly Stevens 3 years ago
My 9 year old calls her friend Monica "harmonica", no matter how many times I correct her
Tonya Wallace 3 years ago
I thought it was Shadrach, Meshach, and a billy goat for way too long.
Annette Easton 3 years ago
One of the women in my family started dating a guy named Justin. A while later another of the women also started dating a guy named Justin. The youngest child in the family was initially a little confused having 2 "Justin"s, until she came up with a solution -- from then on we had "Justin" and "OtherOneJustin"
Sam J 3 years ago
I always said (street name) doctor instead of (street name) drive as a child. This continued until I was 12 or so even though my mother constantly told me it was incorrect. It stopped when I was invited to an end of year party on "Wyton Dr" and I pronounced it as "Wit-in Doctor" instead of "White-in Drive". Haven't lived that one down and it's been four years. Don't ask about mispronouncing Wyton because I've never struggled with pronunciation with anything I've read except for that.
Vanta Black 3 years ago
My little brother used to call me "Maph" until he was around 10. It's not even clost to my name, and we think it may have had something to do with his Asperger's.
Sue Lynn Chan 3 years ago (edited)
I’m pretty sure everyone is gonna misspelled my last name. ‘Lynn’
Q B F T 3 years ago
Met a girl in Seoul - "I'm Su-Hai". "Nice to meet you Su-Hai." Hung out for a few days before she said, "Why do you always call me 'Su-Hai'? It's just 'Su'". Turns out she said "I'm Su, hi." She wasn't good at pauses.
K Witmer 3 years ago
My nephew would scream Fucktruck for firetruck whenever he saw or heard the truck or siren, ambulances too.
Adam Zad 3 years ago
To keep my language clean, I use a word that begins with "F" and ends with "uck." Firetruck!
Load More Replies... Lolly 3 years ago
My husbands friend introduced him to someone called jib a few years ago and they became great friends. 2 years later jib and his new partner come over for dinner. After a while new partner says "why do you keep calling him jib" husband "erm cos that's his name......" Turns out when introductions were made years ago first friend had a cold. JIM his name was Jim. 2 years!!!!! Don't know why he never corrected him, probably just too awkward after a while 😂
Emmydearest 3 years ago
So he said "I'm Jib" and nothing else? Like, not even a "nice to Beet you" or something?
Load More Replies... Troux 3 years ago (edited)
A friend of mine was studying Japanese in college and he was happy to be a host family for a visiting Japanese exchange student. Unfortunately, her flight would arrive at the same time as his appointment on the other side of town. So he asked his brother to go and pick her up from the airport. "Yeah, no problem. Uhhh, how should I greet her though?" "What do you mean?" "Well I just wanted to be able to greet her in Japanese when I see her." "Oh, I see! Well, she'll arrive in the morning, so...say 'Ohayo!' Like oh-ha-yo." "Oh...hah...yo? Like that?" "Close... Actually, it's just like Ohio! Just remember the name of the state and say that!" "Ohio!" "Perfect!" Fast forward to the day she's arriving, the brother is waiting as the tram is unloading passengers. Then he spots her through the crowd, they make eye contact and he smiles big and waves to her. Excited, he yells out to greet her just as he remembered: "Hawaii!!"
Cally Crombie 3 years ago
I asked a colleague what her son's name was, as she'd just given birth. "Urine" she said. Thinking this was rather odd but didn't want to be rude I said "urine? Uh.. nice name" turned out she had a speech impediment and her son is actually called Ewan.
Troux 3 years ago
(via Reader's Digest, probably untrue) A mother asked her young girl what she did today in Sunday School. "We learned about a cross-eyed bear named Gladly!" she responded. The mother gave her a puzzled look and questioned, "Really? That doesn't sound right..." The girl insisted, "Yeah really! We sang a song about him!" The mother then took her book of hymns and opened it up to the bookmark, finding the song 'Gladly the Cross I'd Bear.'
Kathy Pearlman 3 years ago
There's a book called Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear by Ed Mc Bain. 12th in the Matthew Hope series.
Load More Replies... Yu Pan 3 years ago (edited)
When my niece was a toddler, my sister (her aunt) would always call my niece "baby" every time she got back from work. So when my niece first learned how to talk, she called my sister "Baby" because she thought that's her aunt's name. She's been calling my sister "Baby" for 18 years now.
Nikole Landelius 3 years ago
My co-workers granddaughter named her baby doll Accidental, they tried throwing every other name out there but she was insistent. Her parent would get so embarrassed when people would ask her the dolls name. To this day they have no idea where she go that from.
Maxx Holifield 8 months ago
About a year and a half ago, someone joined a social group I'm in, and after barely hearing her name when I first met her, I thought her name was Desiree until someone told me it was Giselle.
Maxx Holifield 1 year ago (edited)
After meeting me only once, my friend's cousin didn't remember my name and my friend told me she called me "the white guy on TikTok" to them. Also, I met someone named Giselle about 2 or 3 months ago, and I don't know why, but I thought her name was Desirée. Sometimes she is also called Giuseppe.
Liz Strevens 2 years ago
When small, my niece used to sing "Don't cry for me, Marge and Tina."
Dana Brechwald 3 years ago
When I was a kid my mom went to a few conferences at a conference center in Monterey called Asliomar. She would say "I'm going to Asilomar!" For the longest time I thought conferences were called "silomars"
Le Ann Ratliff 3 years ago
My name is LeAnn and my younger sister's name is Lana. Our neighbor always called us both those LeAnns. Our little cousin called us both, LeLana but with his mild speech issue he pronounced it WeWana.
Alli VanHuysen 3 years ago
I once pronounced havoc "ha-vah-k" I used it properly and everything, but mispronounced it. My family will never let me live it down. I was eight.
Donna Leslie 3 years ago
I was 17 and singing along to "We're going to Ibiza" I thought all along it was "we're going to eat pizza"
Jenny Harrison 3 years ago
I spent ages on the phone telling the caller they was no one in the house called Fiona, it went on for a while until I realised he was saying he wanted to talk to ‘the owner’ 😏
Caroline Overill 3 years ago
I heard people on the tv talking about a woman called Serbertia Hern. Well I'm not in to politics. I didn't know there was an Irish politician called Sir Bertie Ahern. Incidentally, the Elvis song is DEFINITELY Goose Hill. Where people get Lucille from I just don't know. My brother was asked what the little girl next door was called when he was a tot. He thought she was called Sniffaland. Turns out she was Stephanie.
Nathan Shipman 3 years ago
When I was a kid, my family used to say words like "Doggonit" and everyone of course, says "stop" and I used to say "OOOP! Oggonit!"
Donna Cheung 3 years ago
My 3 year old insisted the boy who sits next to her in class is called "Muffin". Checked the seating plan and his name is actually Melvyn.
Peta Hurley-Hill 3 years ago
Not a name but a song.One day and heard my daughter and son ,aged about 7 and 5 singing "Ooh eye unjer why",I asked them what they were singing,They said it was that song I liked....Took me a bit to realise they were singing a Savage Garden song that goes..."Ohh I want you ,I...(don;t know if I need you) .They are now 30 and 27 and still sing it the way they used to.It's on purpose now though. lol
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Ooh, I have one! Years ago in a former job of mine I met a new co-worker who was very friendly and opened with "Hello! I'm a vet!" I was standing there thinking "Why would a vet sign up for an entry level job at a daycare centre?" Turned out her name was YVETTE. She was super nice and we were soon laughing about it.
FlamingoPanda 3 years ago
I once had a personal trainer telling me to put my heel on a spot. I put my head on that spot instead. It was too early in the morning for me, would have helped if he had said we were going to do leg stretches or something then I might have realised.
Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
My eldest came back from playgroup talking about playing with their friend P.i.s.s. It was several weeks before I found out they meant Pierce.
Kyndal T 3 years ago
Playing card games with my mom and she would always mess up. I'd ask "didn't you forget something?" and she'd cackle and yell "oh yeah! Discharge!" as she put a card in the discard pile. It always made me laugh. She would mess up common phrases too. Just weird cliches she couldn't fully remember. Lol. She taught me this: "you're going to hell in a hand basket on a slippy slide". She was a bartender and taught me so many ways to tell off men who hit on me. And she had a beautiful singing voice but she always messed up the lyrics. I still hear her voice (with the wrong lyrics) anytime I listen to music she liked. I even accidentally say "belbow" instead of elbow sometimes like she used to.
Aradia Sayner 3 years ago
When teaching swimming many years ago I had one child who always called me Radio.
Erin Grant 3 years ago
Had a 2 year old at day care named Axl, the other kids pronounced it as a*****e. Really worried some parents.
Holly Stevens 3 years ago
My 9 year old calls her friend Monica "harmonica", no matter how many times I correct her
Tonya Wallace 3 years ago
I thought it was Shadrach, Meshach, and a billy goat for way too long.
Annette Easton 3 years ago
One of the women in my family started dating a guy named Justin. A while later another of the women also started dating a guy named Justin. The youngest child in the family was initially a little confused having 2 "Justin"s, until she came up with a solution -- from then on we had "Justin" and "OtherOneJustin"
Sam J 3 years ago
I always said (street name) doctor instead of (street name) drive as a child. This continued until I was 12 or so even though my mother constantly told me it was incorrect. It stopped when I was invited to an end of year party on "Wyton Dr" and I pronounced it as "Wit-in Doctor" instead of "White-in Drive". Haven't lived that one down and it's been four years. Don't ask about mispronouncing Wyton because I've never struggled with pronunciation with anything I've read except for that.
Vanta Black 3 years ago
My little brother used to call me "Maph" until he was around 10. It's not even clost to my name, and we think it may have had something to do with his Asperger's.
Sue Lynn Chan 3 years ago (edited)
I’m pretty sure everyone is gonna misspelled my last name. ‘Lynn’
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