I was introduced to the idea of "soldiers" before "shoulders". The soldiers I knew wore red tunics, bearskins and marched in tight formations. When I found out, via a sweater that my grandmother had knitted for me, that the area between my neck and the top of my arm was in fact a "soldier" I was mystified. For some time I couldn't get the image of a small soldier in bearskin and red tunic sitting on each of my shoulders out of my mind and reasoned that this must've been the origin of the word.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I was convinced that Gorilla soldiers in Vietnam in the 70's were real Gorillas attacking other Soldiers.— Mario
- I thought a "fallen soldier" was one who'd tripped and fallen during a battle.Anon
- I used to believe that my feelings were in my shoulders.— Jesyka
- When I was little, I used to believe that football players really had shoulders that big.— Angie
- When I was a kid, I used to think that the only way you could play football was if you had giant shoulders.— Sam
- When a soldiers went AWOL in the movies, I thought they physically climbed over "A Wall".— D Rumsfeld