I used to think that you could never count to 100 because 90 sounds so much like 19 which meant that ou would simply continue to loop from 90 back to 19 in a never ending cycle. I also convinced my friends this was true.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- I thought that Count Dracula was the count from Sesame StreetAnon
- I use to beleive that because oui (which sounds exactly like wee) mean yes in french, that poo meant no.— Toby
- I used to think "Disney" was spelled D I S N E P. because they'd loop the "y" and it looked like a "p"! — Rebecca Sears
- that DOT was a particularly popular brand of motor cycle helmet.— Gary Watrous
- I thought that there was a law that all movies had to have a happy ending— Quatsch
- I used to think Russians had surnames ending with ski because of the skiing they do in Siberia.Anon