One summer while my family was visiting my cousin's family, a new family moved into my cousin's neighborhood from Davenport, Iowa. Whether coincidentally or not, it was while playing with my cousin and the new kid from Davenport that I for the first time heard a sofa called a "davenport'. I got thet idea that perhaps in a lot of places people call a sofa by the name of whatever city they are familiar with living in.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- My cousin's mom told my cousin that pop makes you short. He probably believed it.— Molly
- I was about 6 and thought my family invented the fart because I never heard anyone outside my family do it.— Bob
- I used to think a second cousin meant a cousin’s cousin.— Carlos Almonacid
- My cousin used to think that a group of nine singers was called a "niner".Anon
- I used to think that in the song"Family Affair, they were saying "It's a family of bears!"— Wayne Huffman
- I used to believe you could live down the back of the sofa...— Big Pete