I thought that no matter how you arranged any letters, it would always make a word. So 1 day when my teacher was asking for spelling words to put on a test, i Suggested ngfzztplk or something like that and everybody was like huh?
A childhood belief about spelling

others believed things like this
- From the first six letters of this word, I thought that “megalomania” had something to do with megalodons.— Enrico
- I used to believe that translating from language into language was only a matter of changing letters ! :) — EwS
- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M. - I used to believe that the words Angliphile and Francophile were related to the word paedophiles.Anon
- I used to believe that the teacher's lounge was where the teachers went to make out.— Julia
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny