my mom used to say you spell Mississippi M-I-crooked letter-crooked letter i-crooked letter-crooked letter-i-hump back-hump back-i so when i wrote it in school it was really long and my teacher would tell me and i told her to shut up because my mommy was smarter than her so she called my mom to pick me up for yelling at her and stuff and i said mommy my teacher doesn't know how to spell Mississippi and she finally told me "crooked letter" meant s and "humpback" was p yep i was looking pretty stupid
A childhood belief about spelling
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- My friend Chris told me that when he was young, he thought that "elemeno" was the letter between k and p.— Jocelyn666
- I used to believe that l-m-n-o-p was one letter.— Micheal
- I used to believe LMNOP was one whole letter.— Walked
- i used to believe i would get my letter to hogwarts when i turned 11— katie Phillips
- I used to believe that L-M-N-O-P was 1 letter, pronounced elemenopeeAnon