Since I never knew the words to the National Anthem, I thought the words were: "Hose can you See..." That's what it sounded like until I asked my mother who Hose was. She laughed and said it's "Oh Say can you see..."
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
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
- 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. - I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words. — Simon
- When I first heard the words "flea market", I actually thought it meant "selling fleas".Anon