I used to believe that there were two ways to say the word spelt 'misled'. One was pronounced 'my-zuld' and was to be fooled by a miser, and the other one was 'miss-lead' (the real one) which was to be lead astray.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- If you bit the end of a pen of pencil you would be poisoned by the lead or ink. Anon
- I used to believe that Prince was the lead singer of Queen— Garrett
- I used to believe that if you jump in a toilet, they lead you to another dimension.— beep.
- i was told that if you got stabbed with a pencil (by yourself or others) you would get lead poisoning.— waiting to die
- I was sure that Led Zeppelin was the lead singer of the Rolling Stones.— dave
- Didn't Jesus say "And lead us not into Thames Station!"— Chris - Sheffield