My little sister (not a native English speaker) thought that the name of the "7-Up"soda is actually Zup, and the pronunciation "sevenup" is just one of the irregularities of the English language.
A childhood belief about drinks
others believed things like this
- Because of Pocahontas, I grew up believing Native Americans noises sounded like English to Native Americans.Anon
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon
- I used to believe that the whole world spoke the same language- English.Anon
- I used to believe that english was the only real language and all the others were just made up after.Anon
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- I used to believe that "elemeno P" was a certain kind of "P" found only in the English language. Anon