when i was little I didn't know about prefixes on words being able to be attached to other words and got double barrelled words mixed up. I always wondering why multi-storey car parks weren't multi-coloured.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that all four-letter words are bad words.Anon
- I used to believe that all languages were just jiberish and I asked my mom why they didn't use real words.Anon
- My mom used to say that if I said bad words, poop would appear in my mouth— Nina
- I thought "prison" and "prism" are the same words as each other.Anon
- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M. - When i was in kindergarten, i used to think that i invented the words million and billion— Comonsnadama