When I was young I used to think that WHSmith was all one word, and was thus pronounced "Wwwhhhhuuusmith"
A childhood belief about going shopping
others believed things like this
- 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
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin
- 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 believe that 'island' was pronounced 'is-land' instead. I know im not alone on that one! :)
— Da KornMeal - I used to think that New York was pronounced "Yew Nork"Anon