when I was younger, I knew the word "khaki" in the spoken language, but I always thought it was spelled "cacky." I knew the word "khaki" from reading, but I always thought it was pronounced "ka-hee-kee" and that it meant "hawaiian print."
It wasn't until my late teens that I made the connection between the two. Luckily, I figured it out before anyone else did.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- When I was little, I used to think that Latin was wriiten because it wasn't a spoken language!!!— Stupid Gal
- When I was younger I thought I had made up the word "nipples" and "thinga-majigger" — Amelia
- I used to believe the word shoes was spelled shouse. It looked right to me... — Shouse
- When I was young I used to think that WHSmith was all one word, and was thus pronounced "Wwwhhhhuuusmith"— Nathan
- I used to believe that the word 'circumstances' was pronounced 'circus dancers'.— Mel