My parents have a small photo album containing our baby pictures that's always been referred to as the Spogbook, it was even printed on the front of it. For years I thought that a Spogbook was a term widely used to mean a small photo album for baby pictures. It was only recently when I used ther term in front of someone outside the family that my mum told me it was actually Spogboek - the Afrikaans for Photo Album which they'd bought when living in Africa in the 70s...
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- i used to believe when someone died their image on photo's would disappear— beryl's girl
- i used to think that the term 'necking' referred to boyfriends and girlfriends who rubbed their necks togetherAnon
- I used to believe that everyone in pictures could see me so i turned all of the pictures in my house backwardsAnon
- I used to believe that a vitamin was a small animal
only recently I have found out that it is not true... :)— Sylwia - I thought the term maiden name actually applied to women who were maidens.— Natasha
- I believed that the inside of a tomato was a small, living creature and I flatly refused to eat that bit.Anon