When I was very young, I thought the word lesbian was the term for a citizen of Lebanon.
A childhood belief about nationalities
others believed things like this
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin
- My brother once referred to the neighbor as a lesbian (she was Lebanese...)Anon
- When I was young I used to think that WHSmith was all one word, and was thus pronounced "Wwwhhhhuuusmith"— Nathan
- I thought the term maiden name actually applied to women who were maidens.— Natasha
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I used to believe that the term "being mugged" meant someone beat someone else with a coffee mug.— Matt Thiel