I wrote in my first degree essay that a bilingual friend spoke Polish because she had grown up in Walsall. The lecturer wrote (quite harshly I feel!) "I wasn't aware there was a large Polish community in Birmingham". I'm just glad papers were marked anonymously!
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- Polish war memorial ,I thought it was an instruction.as in to polish— oddsox
- As a youngster, my older brother told me that polish sausage was really the bull's genitals. — Ross
- I used to believe that people from Holland were called "Hollish", like people from Poland are called "Polish"— Sally
- Chopin wrote Chopsticks.Anon
- I used to believe that when people wrote in cursive, they were writing in Spanish.— Ellen
- I legitmately thought that my mom wouldnt be able to read my diary if I wrote it pig latin!— Ashley