When I was younger, I read in this spanish book that two 'l's (as in, como se llama) were pronounced as 'y'. I promptly forgot that this only applied to Spanish, and so for a very long time (up until 3 years ago) I thought that anything with two l's would have to be pronounced y. for example, I was read this book called 'is your mama a llama' by my mom a lot, and I remember saying, "Mom, it's not lama, it's yama!" I also remembering encountering the name Lloyd for the first time. I announced proudly that the person was named Yoyd, (pronounced like yoid) not Loyd.
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
- When I was little i thought lb for pounds was pronounced lubs, and i called them that for 2 years. Anon
- I used to read about Lady Penelope and believe that her name was pronounced Penny-lope (lope as in antelope).Anon
- I used to think Freud was pronounced frood, and that "Froid" was a separate person with a different name!— Gracie
- I used to think there was a llama under my bed that was going to eat me.Anon
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen