In a history class, actually we were fairly old, a girl in the back perks up in the middle of a discussion about one of the worl wars, and contribute to the conversation with this "Oh, do they speak english in Great Britain?"
A childhood belief about foreign languages
others believed things like this
- I used to think that the word Great was added to Britain because they won the Second World War.— Age
- I used to believe that my dog could speak English, but he just didn't feel like it.— Mariah
- I remember thinking that non-English speakers were much smarter because they could speak "so much faster." Anon
- I used to think everyone in the world knew and thought in English, but choose to speak different languages. Anon
- I used to believe that it was the Star Wars "Tri-ology" instead of the Stars Wars "trilogy".— keith Key
- I used to think that world wars's were called war wars. So then World War II became War War II.— Maria