As a child, I was a voracious reader. Unfortunately, I didn't read aloud to anyone to correct my pronunciation. For years, I thought the word "awry" was pronounced "ow-ree". Hearing the word "awry" in conversation did nothing to dispel this belief. I jsut assumed they were two separate words.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- When ever someone said ''read aloud'' I assumed aloud was the title of a book. Lol.— Delaney
- 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
- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M. - In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny