I read books avidly as a kid and was always awaiting the Library doors to open. I was born in 1943.
I always had a problem with two words. For years I pronounced 'Slough' as 'Sluf' and also 'Hugh' (a hero in one of my books) as 'Huff'. I suppose I had learnt to pronounce Rough and assumed the other words corresponded.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- There were no writers behind children's books--they just magically appeared at the library! Anon
- i used to believe alaska was an island because of the way they put it on our booksAnon
- When I was a little I thought TV was full of tiny books and we would watch one every day— Amine
- I used to believe that all four-letter words are bad words.Anon
- I thought the Til Tuesday song said "Books are scary!", rather than "Voices Carry"Anon
- I thought that the women who drove the bookmobile actually wrote all of the books on the shelves.— Dan