My niece believed that if you touched a cactus plant, you would get “porked” and proceeded to tell me so loudly on a city bus. It was very difficult to explain to her that the correct word was “pricked” while everyone on the bus was howling with laughter.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- My 7 year old nephew holds the opinion that the correct name for a pidgeon is a "city chicken".— Bastard
- My niece used to call Marmite Falloy! Where she got the word Falloy from nobody knows— Russ
- I used to think that the wind that made a howling noise was a ghost.— Febi
- When I was a kid, I used to believe a nuclear plant was a clouds plant and could make magic clouds.— Tommy
- When I was 4 or so I believed if you touched a dead person you'd die too.— anonymous
- I believed that wind was caused because the trees moved. I was completely sure my conclusion was correct.— Glenr