When I was a little kid, I thought that all words had their own limit. Which meant that when you said one word was at it maximum, you never could say it again. So I never said words like 'and', 'or' etc. because I was frightened that I never could say those words when I was older. -Actually I never knew what the limits per word were...
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- 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 all four-letter words are bad words.Anon
- When I first heard the words "flea market", I actually thought it meant "selling fleas".Anon
- I thought "prison" and "prism" are the same words as each other.Anon
- I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words. — Simon