I used to believe that the word "vague", in print, was pronounced "vuh-gyu" or "vay-gyu." I wondered why I never heard it spoken.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- When I was young I used to think that WHSmith was all one word, and was thus pronounced "Wwwhhhhuuusmith"— Nathan
- I used to believe that the word 'circumstances' was pronounced 'circus dancers'.— Mel
- When i first saw the word "Czech" somewhere, i pronounced it "siz-ETCH" in my head — Pachisu
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- When I was a kid I heard that the Beatles did acid and I wondered if they melted from it.Anon
- When I was little I used to believe that URDU is the most spoken language in the world Anon