I grew up in California, USA, where many city names are of Spanish origin and have kept something like the original pronunciation. I used to believe that the city of San Jose (pronounced 'san ho-say' like the Spanish) was just right next to the city San Jose (pronounced 'san jo-za' as if it were English).
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to believe my nieghboor jose invented the language spanish and he got rich and bought cars— Thomas
- I used to believe that Spanish and Italian were the same language;Spanish was for boys and Italian for girlsAnon
- That the city of Christchurch was a big church which everybody lived in.— Christine
- When, I was a kid, I used to believe that cane sugar came from the city Cannes Anon
- My friend was in Germany, and she thougth that "ausfart" was a city.— Tone
- I used to belive that all TV shows were taped in my home city, thats why they were shown here.Anon