I had convinced myself that that "even" meant "1,3,5,7" and "odd" meant "2,4,6,8" because of the letters...one, three, and five all had "e's" in them, and seven had the word "even" in it...and two and four had "o's" in them, just like the word odd.
I have no idea how I managed to do so well in elementary school.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon
- my husband believed, until recently, that the word "several" meant seven of something. — sheryl
- I used to believe that "nuptial" was a naughty word. I thought it meant nipple. XD— Sara Hagen
- i used to think the word "friendship" meant a special kind of rocketship that you went on with your friends.— chips ahoy!
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz