When I was in seventh grade, a girl I was in Social Studies class with named Susie was reading her paragraph out of our geography book. We were discussing the Shiite and Sunni Muslims and she was the first one to read about the Shiites. The rest of us in class were not quite sure how to say it but we knew it probably wasn't how we thought it should be said. Sure enough, though, Susie kept struggling through her paragraph and got to Shiite, pronouncing it "Shitty" and making the whole class and our teacher laugh. When he finally got control of himself, the teacher explained to us how to pronounce it, Shee-ite. To this day (and I've already graduated from both high school and college), I still use "Shiite" (pronounced the correct way) as a euphemism for that other expletive.
A childhood belief about nationalities
others believed things like this
- I used to think my elementary school gym teacher's name was "Jim Class".— Brandon Campbell
- I used to think the Senior Center was where all the high school seniors got to hang out and cut class— Jordan
- I used to believe that the Chinese boy in my kindergarten class flew from China every day to get to class.— Debi
- The boy in my class named "Sahand" must have a sister named "Safoot".Anon
- I remember a girl in my kindergarten class told me she wanted to be a waterfall when she grew up.Anon
- I was told that spaghetti grew on trees and i anounced it in class one day in grammer school.— w.b.