Somewhere down the line of growing up, I lost the 'L' in flashlight. Even now as an adult I still tend to say "fashlight" instead and have to actually think about the word before saying it.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- Like most kids growing up, I believed there was an upside-down word on the other side of the mirror.— Taylor (14)
- I used to believe that the full moon was God's flashlight.Anon
- I used to think that if you shone a flashlight beam onto a lightbulb long enough, it would eventually light.— Karen K
- I used to think that growing pains meant that a tomato plant was growing in your stomach.— Annette
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I used to believe that a "punch line" meant a line of people waiting to dip punch from a punch bowl.— Sheila