I come from Norway. When I was a child I believed that twenty and seventy was the same number, they sounded alike to me, in norwegian. So when I was told to count to a hundred I counted ...28,29,80,81...
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that India and Indonesia were right next to each other since their names sounded alikeAnon
- I used to believe that twenty was the largest number in the universe.— Bernardo Fernandez
- i used to belive that 100 was the biggest number in the world "i got at least a hundred marbles."— dan harris
- That numbers went 1-99 the A hundred, a hundred and one til a hundred and ninety nine. Then ONE hundred...— Foolhardy
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- I thought that Count Dracula was the count from Sesame StreetAnon