When I was younger, I knew nothing about accents and thought that when someone talked with one, they had gotten into a car accident. One day when my mom's friend who had an accent came over, I said to her "I'm sorry about your accident, but I like your voice!"
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- the if you swallowed a fly by accident that you would then grow an appetite for dirt.— sarah
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz
- When I used to see the sign 'police accident' I thought it meant that a police car had crashed.Anon
- i didn't beleive this, but a kid my sister knew thought if he screamed in a really high voice, he ran faster.Anon
- I used to believe that people were born with accents.Anon
- Even though I knew about Roman numerals when I was younger, I thought that there was 11 world wars.Anon