When I was little I used to think that when you counted the numbers went 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10---- then 11-19 was replaced with one-ty like twenty or thirty. It went ten, onety-one, onety-two, onety-three... and so on!
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- I used to believe there were numbers called "onety" and 'twoty." I thought "twoty-nine" came before twenty.— CC
- When I was a kid I believed that the number 11 was pronounced "onety-one"— Alicia
- I used to believe that numbers had gender, that the odd numbers were boys and even numbers were girls. — Evelyn
- When I was 10 years old, I used to believe that the accountants always counted money all the time.— Claudia P. R.G.
- I used to believe that copying definitions out of a book counted as plagiarism!Anon
- I used to believe the way they counted up votes was by counting the signs people used to put on their yards— Jaci Marshall