In the early 1950's long before we had a TV, I would read my older brother's comic books, and I thought Yosemite Sam was pronounced yose mite. I was a teenager before I heard it said correctly.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- When I was little and learnign to read, I used to believe that chaos was pronounced "Chaa-Ose."Anon
- My older brother used to tell me if you ate raw potatoes your teeth would grow long and curly!— Lauren
- I used to read about Lady Penelope and believe that her name was pronounced Penny-lope (lope as in antelope).Anon
- I used to think that the starwars weekly comic wasn't very strong.. duh.— TAM
- I thought your loins were kidneys, and nobody corrected me until I was a teenagerAnon
- When I was a little I thought TV was full of tiny books and we would watch one every day— Amine