When i was little i used to think that people who stuttered had used up their allotted number of words for the particular word they stuttered on, and could'nt say that word again without difficulty
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M. - I used to believe that the words Angliphile and Francophile were related to the word paedophiles.Anon
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m
- I used to get mad when people used the word "native" because I thought they were making fun of my name!— Nate
- I used to think that the word blurb was a noise that people made when being sick. Bluuuggghhh.— Natasha