I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the words Angliphile and Francophile were related to the word paedophiles.Anon
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I used to believe that all four-letter words are bad words.Anon
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m
- I thought "prison" and "prism" are the same words as each other.Anon
- I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words. — Simon