As a child, after I found out that "urine" is the "proper" word for pee, but before anyone had told me how to spell it, I was studying maps. I looked at maps of various places, including the great lakes region. When I first saw Lake Huron on a map, I thought h-u-r-o-n might be the way to spell that new word, urine, that I'd recently learned, so I really wondered about Lake Huron. I was well learned enough by then to think it extremely unlikely that there was literally a giant lake of pee there between Michigan and Ontario. But I thought the lake must have been named derogatorily by someone who perceived something inpure or unaesthetic about its waters. Even though this was a confusion on my part, it might have just given me a head start for later being aware of water pollution!
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- When my sister told one of my brothers her e-mail address, he thought to spell out “at” instead of typing “@”.— EJ - no longer computer illiterate!
- When I was little I thought that my urine was stored in my scrotum until I needed to wee.— Bryan
- up until recently I thought intern was just another word for a secretary (I'm 27 btw)— Axecutioner
- I used to believe that the maps for the United States and Texas were identical.— JTexas
- When I was, like, three, i thought my cat was an evil sorcerer and would cast a spell on me. XD— Bobbet
- As a small child I believed that the word was "nakeup", finally I found out that it was actually "makeup".— Hannnah P.