When I was just learning to read, I thought the "No Loitering" sign said "No Lottering" as in playing the lottery and people who bought lottery tickets couldn't go there to wait for the numbers to be announced.
At another point, I was positive the word "loitering" had to do with some kind of inappropriate or obscene behavior. I'm not sure exactly what, but it just sounded that way to me.
A childhood belief about spelling
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a "No Loitering" sign was "No Littering", inexplicably spelled with a Brooklyn accent.— erin
- When I was learning the alphabet,I thought elemeno was one word.— Rick H.
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I used to believe that numbers had gender, that the odd numbers were boys and even numbers were girls. — Evelyn
- A billboard sign read: Moonshine kills.
I thought being caught outside by the moon would kill me. Humph.Anon - When I first started learning to read I was convinced that vowels were called barnacles.— Andy Howell