I also had trouble hearing and still do but anyways around 4 or 5 I always thought Wind Sheild Wipers was pronounced Win sheer wipers, K-Mart was Kane Mart, and Mix 95.1 (a local radio station) was Nix 95.1. It took untill about I was 7 or so to find out what the real names were.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I believed as a child that the proper name for windscreen wipers was "lig-logs".— Ray
- My five-year-old cousin thinks that his parents purchased him from Wal-Mart.Anon
- I used to wonder how they managed to fit the orchestra into the radio station.
— sally - I used to think that when a song finished on the radio it would play again on the next station— Maria
- I used to believe that if you spoke into the speakers that they would hear it at the radio station. — natalie
- I used to think that if you stared real hard at the wind, you could see the angels.— Bradon