People whose names you get wrong by using the correct name

Patsy Clark: Emma, this is Lizbeth.
Emma Greenway Horton: [shakes hands with her] Oh, hi, Elizabeth.
Lizbeth: Hi. It’s Lizbeth.
Emma Greenway Horton: Isn’t that what I said?
Lizbeth: No, you said “Elizabeth” with an e. It’s Lizbeth.
Emma Greenway Horton: Oh, two names? Liz Beth?
Lizbeth: Oh no, one. Lizbeth.
Emma Greenway Horton: Lizbeth?
Lizbeth: Never mind.
The others laugh.
Patsy Clark: And this is Jane.
Emma Greenway Horton: Thank heavens!

Dialogue from the movie Terms of Endearment (1983)

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