My friend and I had some confusion about the word "rape." I insisted that the word was pronounced "rap," as my dad with his heavy Chinese accent said it was, and that it was when a man kidnapped a girl. My friend thought it was pronounced the correct way, because his older siblings had told him that, but didn't know what the word meant. In the end we accepted my pronounciation of the word since after all, I knew what the word meant.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- When I was young I used to think that WHSmith was all one word, and was thus pronounced "Wwwhhhhuuusmith"— Nathan
- I used to believe that the word 'circumstances' was pronounced 'circus dancers'.— Mel
- When i first saw the word "Czech" somewhere, i pronounced it "siz-ETCH" in my head — Pachisu
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m
- I used to believe that "nuptial" was a naughty word. I thought it meant nipple. XD— Sara Hagen