I believed that certain words were pronounced one way when spoken and silently pronounced another way when read. For instance the nut "pecan" was pronounced with a short e in the first syllable and a an aah sound in the second one, but when read it was silently pronounced as pee-can. This is probably too complicated to explain but it was one of my rules.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- When I was little and learnign to read, I used to believe that chaos was pronounced "Chaa-Ose."Anon
- I used to read about Lady Penelope and believe that her name was pronounced Penny-lope (lope as in antelope).Anon
- When I was a kid I believed that the number 11 was pronounced "onety-one"— Alicia
- i used to believe that 'island' was pronounced 'is-land' instead. I know im not alone on that one! :)
— Da KornMeal - I used to think that New York was pronounced "Yew Nork"Anon
- when i was little i used to think bumble bee was actually pronounced bumbow bee— cathy