well, to understand that u might have to know some greek but i ll explain anyway: in greek there are two words: "ura" meaning tail and "ora" meaning hour. so a friend'mum used to tell her that she would sleep for an hour (ora) but she thought she heard ura (tail)!! she grew up believing that time is counted in tails (ura)!!!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- i used to believe all foriegn languages were greek if you learned greek you could speak them all
— pappy 6 27 35 - For a while I thought Anon was a name of an ancient philosopher. Probably Greek.— zeforeigner
- I used to believe that the red thing in the middle of a Greek olive was the pit.— Liz
- I used to believe that a quarter after the hour was 25 minutes after the hour because 25 cents = a quarter.— Marni
- When I was very little, I used to believe that bacon came from the tail of a pig because it was curly!!— Audrey
- I used to believe that a cat's butt hole was on the tip of his tail.— PANTS