I used to believe that "prosecuted" and "executed" were the same word, and that shoplifting laws ("shoplifters will be prosecuted!") were rather draconian.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- when I was younger I used to believe that prosecuted meant that you would be killed!— tony
- I always thought that shoplifting is about lifting the shop from the ground.— Helen
- As a child I believed that when a person was fired from their job, they were executed on a firing range. — damien
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m
- I used to believe that I actually invented the word "excellent".— poop jacket