My two best friends were shopping and we passed a stand called 'The piercing pagoda' and one of my friends proclaimed "It's the Piercing Padoga!" She honestly thought it was called this. It wasn't just that she read it or said it wrong- She actually beleived the word Pagoda was pronounced Padoga.
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
- When I was little i thought lb for pounds was pronounced lubs, and i called them that for 2 years. Anon
- i used to think the word "friendship" meant a special kind of rocketship that you went on with your friends.— chips ahoy!
- When I first started learning to read I was convinced that vowels were called barnacles.— Andy Howell
- When I was little and learnign to read, I used to believe that chaos was pronounced "Chaa-Ose."Anon
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny