When my mom taught me how to read and write, she compared the lowercase b and d to pregnant women. I took this literally and thought she meant that they actually were pregnant. I always saw lowercase letters as children and was horrified that they were pregnant so young. I knew they must be having a hard time, so I made it a point to always capitalize those letters, even in the middle of words.
A childhood belief about spelling
others believed things like this
- When I was younger I thought that to elope was to run off and get pregnant before you got married.Anon
- From the first six letters of this word, I thought that “megalomania” had something to do with megalodons.— Enrico
- When i was like 10 years old .. i though if we aet to much we get pregnant .. !!!— ..
- I used to think "Zed" and "Zee" were two different letters.Anon
- I used to believe that eating too many tomatoes could make you pregnant.— Mariah
- I used to believe that if you ate eggs for breakfast everyday you'd get pregnant...Anon