When I was a child (up untill about age 12) when we would say the blessing at the dinner table, the prayer would go "let us thank him for our food", i always thought that it went "lettus thank us for this food", it made sense to me, since we were eating, and it said "lettus"
A childhood belief about prayers

others believed things like this
- I thought when you got food poisoning it might someone had put poison in your food— Bootlebat
- I was told when I was little that eating too much salt on your food would "dry up your blood".Anon
- I'm autistic, and I used to believe taking some of my sister's food while she was eating it was sharing.Anon
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon
- I used to believe when ordering Chinese food the food and delivery man came from China— Dave
- i thought salt made food cold, since pepper made it *hot* — cattiva