Nephew aged 6 was crazy about westerns but always called cavalry, "cattle-ry". Well, I suppose the other blokes on horses were called "Cowboys" - so, logical? He was so persistent that the whole family now says the same, thirty years later!
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I believed that the breed of dog called Boxer was called that because they could stand up and box.Anon
- My mom used to think "preschool" was called "pretty school" until a few years later.— Molly
- I used to believe that people from Holland were called "Hollish", like people from Poland are called "Polish"— Sally
- I used to think that adult kangaroos were called Kangas and that child kangaroos were called Roos. Anon
- When I was little i thought lb for pounds was pronounced lubs, and i called them that for 2 years. Anon
- i used to believe that they really killed Indians on westerns.— tripod tod