No one told me about 'colonel' being pronounced 'kernel'. As a kid I used to tape-record things for my grandparents who lived far away, and I did my favourtite poems: one of them was 'Colonel Fazackerly Butterworth Toast, bought an old castle complete with a a ghost'. My parents were killing themselves listening to me scan 'colonel' (it got a lot of mentions in the poem...)
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if I pulled all my hair out, I would look like Colonel Klink (Hogans Heroes)— Cutto
- i used to believe that a ghost lived under my bed and that a giant lived under our dining room table.— nameless
- I used to believe that Casper the Friendly Ghost lived in my dad's car.— Michael
- I used to believe anon was a person and couldn't believe he had written so many poems— Helena
- I loved watching the cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost and wondered why the Holy Ghost never got his own show.— Robert
- I thought the “rec” button on tape recorders said wreck and it would wreck your tape if you pushed it!— Alberto Richardson