For the longest time I'd read the word "colonel" in a book without realizing that it's pronounced 'kernel'.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- For the longest time I was sure my cat could read my mind.Anon
- When I was little and learnign to read, I used to believe that chaos was pronounced "Chaa-Ose."Anon
- 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
- When i first saw the word "Czech" somewhere, i pronounced it "siz-ETCH" in my head — Pachisu
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen