I always wondered where all the words and their meanings originated from, and I decided that at the beginning of time, there was a big table of old wise men with long white beards, and they all discussed certain sounds and decided to give them meanings, for example, "PEN-CIL" would mean that pointy skinny stick that you write with.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I believed because my Dad and all of his brothers had beards that ALL dads had beards!Anon
- I thought gay people were old men with very long beards.Anon
- I thought that 1983 went on for 3 years - had to ask my sister who decided how long a year lasted.— Sally
- I used to believe that a long time ago, just like in old pictures, the world was black and white loolAnon
- I used to think that your birthday changed every year, and that your parents just decided what day it was.— Daniel
- i used to think that freckles were when god got bored and he decided to draw on your face!— kelsey