My mother was raised Catholic at a time when the mass was still conducted in Latin, and picked up a rather garbled half-understanding of the language. So, at Christmastime, when everyone was singing "Adeste Fideles," she was absolutely convinced that "Venite adoremus" ("O come let us adore him") meant "Here comes the dormouse."
A childhood belief about hymns
others believed things like this
- i used to think that the language pig latin was called pig latin because it was used by pigs— kim
- For the longest time I thought Pig Latin was an actual language that they spoke in a part of Europe.Anon
- When I was little, I used to think that Latin was wriiten because it wasn't a spoken language!!!— Stupid Gal
- I am Catholic. I used to believe that the Father presenting the Mass was in fact God himself.— Lindsey
- I used to believe that Latin was spoken in Latin America.— C.C.
- I used to believe opera singing was a language all its own.— Rachel