when i was young i always pronounced nipples as nickles my mother thought it was cute and never told me otherwise i assumed everyone else used the same word right up until year 6 when we began sex education the teacher pointed to the nipples asked what they were and i said nickled the class laughed at me and i was very angry with my mother
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- When I was younger I thought I had made up the word "nipples" and "thinga-majigger" — Amelia
- I thought nipples disappeared at a certain age because Barbie never had them.Anon
- I used to believe that ants had the smallest nipples in the worldAnon
- I used to believe that all my energy "came from my nipples and my back" I literally said that to my parents.— Eleanor R
- When I was young I used to think that WHSmith was all one word, and was thus pronounced "Wwwhhhhuuusmith"— Nathan
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know