When I was little I could never understand why the petrol company ESSO was pronounced the way it was. I always thought it should have been pronounced e-ess-ess-o!
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- i thought the name Anon, was really a name...pronounced A-Non...haha i figured it out— Norman einstien
- Until very recently, I thought "archives" was pronounced like "are chives".— Mitsuki
- I thought that polystyrene was pronounced 'polly-STEE-LEE-an'.— Polly Stairiin
- When I was little i thought lb for pounds was pronounced lubs, and i called them that for 2 years. Anon
- I thought that Job in the Bible was pronounced "Jawb" and that it had something to do with Steve Jobs.Anon
- i used to believe that 'island' was pronounced 'is-land' instead. I know im not alone on that one! :)
— Da KornMeal