I grew up near Worcester, MA, USA. I knew of that city as Wuster, because I heard people say it that way. When I saw Worcester on highway signs, I thought it was a different city, pronounced the way it's spelt. I was shocked to learn they were one and the same.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- i thought that if water towers fell the city would flood. So everynight i would stay up worrying.— o.O haku
- I thought that the song "Built this City" by starship went as follows. "Milk and Cereal, Rock and Roll"Anon
- That the city of Christchurch was a big church which everybody lived in.— Christine
- When, I was a kid, I used to believe that cane sugar came from the city Cannes Anon
- My friend was in Germany, and she thougth that "ausfart" was a city.— Tone
- I used to belive that all TV shows were taped in my home city, thats why they were shown here.Anon