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by TeMPOraL 701 days ago
I spent 30 years being wrong about my grandmom's given name, because my granddad called her by other name than the official one[0], and in all those decades there was hardly an opportunity for me to notice or for someone to correct me. Grandma was always "grandma".

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[0] - Anna vs. Hanna. Close enough to be ambiguous in speech.