I remember when we had German at school, a boy in my class thought 'Notizen' (notes) was pronounced 'no-tits-then'!!! Hours of laughs when he read it out one day.....!
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- When I was little and learnign to read, I used to believe that chaos was pronounced "Chaa-Ose."Anon
- I used to read about Lady Penelope and believe that her name was pronounced Penny-lope (lope as in antelope).Anon
- My brother used to believe that when we went to school dogs went to dog school to learn to speak and read— Matt
- I remember a girl in my kindergarten class told me she wanted to be a waterfall when she grew up.Anon
- I used to think my elementary school gym teacher's name was "Jim Class".— Brandon Campbell
- In kindergarden my friend told me that there were 24 hours in the day and 15 hours in the night.— Cari