I was always a very good speller as a kid, except for one day as an 11-year-old when I attempted to sing along to Aretha Franklin:
"R-E-S-V-E-C-T."
I thought she was just naming off random letters.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I used to think that Aretha Franklin's name was Urethra Franklin. Anon
- I always thought that "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees was sung by Aretha Franklin.Anon
- On TV game sows when they said the winners were chosen "at random" I thought random was a town.Anon
- Did anyone else sing "Hark, the hairy angels sing"?— Jill
- My mum said that when I used to sing "noahs arc" at school I would sing "who built the arc, no one, no one"— Clare
- From the first six letters of this word, I thought that “megalomania” had something to do with megalodons.— Enrico