When I was small I used to watch a lot of PBS shows, and at the end they always say, "This program was brought to you by..." and then list funders. They would always say that part really fast, so I thought that "broughtoyouby" was a single word. Never could figure out what it meant.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- whenever the tv announcer said "brought to you", I thought it was one word - "brotue".Anon
- I used to believe that "nuptial" was a naughty word. I thought it meant nipple. XD— Sara Hagen
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- As a small child I believed that the word was "nakeup", finally I found out that it was actually "makeup".— Hannnah P.
- my husband believed, until recently, that the word "several" meant seven of something. — sheryl
- i used to think the word "friendship" meant a special kind of rocketship that you went on with your friends.— chips ahoy!