My best friend's mum is called Anne, and when I was small I used to call her Antique Anne. I didn't know what antique meant - but she wasn't very happy because she thought I was that she was very old!
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- We had an antique lamp that I thought was hideous and for years I thought "Art Deco" was a synonym for ugly.Anon
- I thought the holiday was called "Merrychristmas" so I would tell people "happy merrychristmas"Anon
- My sister's friend thought cats were just small dogs when she was younger.— Richard Davies
- My friend thought butterfly was actually called a 'flutterby.'— BlutterBly?
- My father used to call soya sauce "monkey blood". I didn't even consider tasting it for years!— Me
- I thought that socialism just meant being social and didn't get why anyone would be against it!— Olcasgean