my little sister, whose name is anna, used to think "anoraks" were really called "annaraks", so mine would be a "tiarak", our dad's a "paparak" and so on...
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- My mother's name was Anna. She was called "Annemor"(Duck mama). I was convinced I was a duckling.— Christine Norway
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- I used to think that poly anna was a person— BOB
- I used to believe that all parents were called "Inge and Dirk", just like mine— eva
- my sister and i used to think sideburns were called "hash browns."— ginny
- When I was little - before we learned cursive - my sister and I called it 'real writing'. — Monty