When I was about six and first encountered the word 'slippers', I asked what it meant, and was told that slippers were shoes you put on your feet indoors. I made the assumption that they were called 'slippers' because you slide around on them indoors, like on ice skates, and was disappointed for a long time afterwards that this didn't seem to work.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- My dad told me "Hush Puppie" shoes were made from Basset Hound ears.— William
- I used to believe the word shoes was spelled shouse. It looked right to me... — Shouse
- My uncle once said that elves were really badchildren made to work in santa's work shop— Some guy
- I used to believe that shoo fly pie was made of old shoes and dead flys, and I wouldn't eat it.— Aubri
- i used to believe that if i didn't work at school, i would have donkey ears, so now i work hard !!!— denis
- I used to think you couldn't die if you didn't have shoes on. Coincidentally, so did one of my friends.— Casey