After I learned the letters of the alphabet, I really wanted to know how you SPELL each letter. Some seemed obvious like bee, kay, dee, em, but I was very curious about some others like H, Q, X, etc. I remember trying to find out all through kindergarden and getting frustrated with no answers, because adults never understood my question. I'm not sure how long it was before I understood that the letters weren't words on their own.
A childhood belief about spelling
others believed things like this
- I used to think "Zed" and "Zee" were two different letters.Anon
- In preschool, I thought that the letter N came twice in the alphabet- W X Y N ZAnon
- i really thought that "key" was a secret letter to the alphabet that only i knew.— amber
- From the first six letters of this word, I thought that “megalomania” had something to do with megalodons.— Enrico
- I used to believe the D in the Disney logo was a backwards G. I never understood why.— Nancy
- I used to believe that which ever way you looked it was north, never understood how people got lost :-S— Simon