When I asked my Mum if Washington was called Washinton because people washed a lot there, she said yes, that was why. She doesn't admit it to this day... Lucky I never got asked why at school, I would have looked pretty silly.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- My mom used to think "preschool" was called "pretty school" until a few years later.— Molly
- When I was liitle I used to think that God looked like george WashingtonAnon
- Good looked exactly like George Washington.
I have no idea where I got this.— Leen - I used to believe that the lower level of the George Washington Bridge in NYC was named Martha Washington— Shayne
- When I was little I thought that Washington( D.C. )was in Washington state. Anon
- I used to think that because there was a state called Washington, there was also a state called Dryington.— Jasonchic