I saw the word "funeral" in writing before I'd ever heard the word or knew what a funeral was. I assumed it was something like a carnival since it started with the word "fun."
A childhood belief about reading

others believed things like this
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- When you saw a funeral go by, you had to grab a button on your shirt.Anon
- i used to believe that when i was in funeral the person in the casket was just asleep for a while— Edgar