I was reading about the Phillipines in class one day, and they kept referring to the Filipinos (people from the Phillipines), but my eyes skipped the first I and I kept referring to people from the Phillipines as being Flipino.
A childhood belief about nationalities
others believed things like this
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim
- I was born brunette with brown eyes and dark hair, i thought people with blue eyes, had water in them.Anon
- I used to wonder when reading the obituary column how people always managed to die in alphabetical order.— diane
- I used to believe that when people died their eyes would turn to XsAnon
- I used to think that if I closed my eyes other people couldn't see me.Anon
- I used to think all people with green eyes were IrishAnon