When I was 6 I went to an exhibition with my friend Nicholas and we saw a map on the wall and neither of us could read all of the words, and for years after I thought Egypt was pronounced Eggyput.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- When I was little and learnign to read, I used to believe that chaos was pronounced "Chaa-Ose."Anon
- When I was little i thought lb for pounds was pronounced lubs, and i called them that for 2 years. Anon
- I used to read about Lady Penelope and believe that her name was pronounced Penny-lope (lope as in antelope).Anon
- i used to think that my dad got my mom [mummy] from egypt.. when i was like 7— ...
- when my friend was little, she used to eat paper, thinking it would make her read better.— hehehe
- i thought the name Anon, was really a name...pronounced A-Non...haha i figured it out— Norman einstien