When I was small, my friend Melissa wrote her name in all capital letters, letting the center line of the A extend past the sides, making it look somewhat like a star missing the bottom two lines. She told me that only certain people could write their names like this, as it affected pronunciation, and I was devastated. For months I came home crying from daycare because I couldn't cross my A's like she had, and afterward, insisted being called 'Diamond' so that I could write my name with the amazing A's.
A childhood belief about spelling
others believed things like this
- I could NOT understand why, if a pen worked on paper, it couldn't also write in thin air.— Can you guess what it is yet?
- i uase to write my #s like 3d 3d1 3d2 5d4 etc!— anm
- I used to believe that I would one day have a dog, and I would teach him to speak, read, and even write!— Gretchen
- I used to believe that Paris was the capital of London and Italy was the capital of France.Anon
- I thought that the star that Mary and Joseph followed was called Yonder, as in 'following Yonder star."— Kairow
- My friend's mom told my friend's little sister thatI when a dog died, it went to a retirement home.— ellen