I used to believe that if you got all of the letters of a word such as "stop", it didn't matter what order they were in. So, on my first spelling test I was very upset with the teacher who marked my spelling of "ptso" wrong. I was convinced that all the letters were there, so I should get credit.
A childhood belief about spelling
others believed things like this
- From the first six letters of this word, I thought that “megalomania” had something to do with megalodons.— Enrico
- I used to believe that translating from language into language was only a matter of changing letters ! :) — EwS
- I used to beleive that a catacism(spelling?) was an extremely painful Christian version of a bris.— Mike
- I used to think "Zed" and "Zee" were two different letters.Anon
- I used to think you could go to jail just by saying a word wrong during a speech.Anon
- My teacher held out a hand to say, "stop" but I thought she wanted a high-five.Anon