When I was about four years old, I remember exclaiming to my mother that I could spell my first word. Excitedly I told her "I can spell relief... R O L A I D S." (from a popular TV ad at the time)
My mother was so amused by this that she didn't bother correcting me. I continued to demonstrate my feat to other relatives until I finally found someone willing to end my blissful ignorance.
A childhood belief about spelling
others believed things like this
- When my sister told one of my brothers her e-mail address, he thought to spell out “at” instead of typing “@”.— EJ - no longer computer illiterate!
- i used to spell eight "ate" cuz of the stuped: why was six afraid of seven, cuz seven ate(8) ten joke...— 8
- When I was, like, three, i thought my cat was an evil sorcerer and would cast a spell on me. XD— Bobbet
- I had my wife convinced that Steven Hawking made his fortune as the original voice for the speak N spell toy.Anon
- As a small child I believed that the word was "nakeup", finally I found out that it was actually "makeup".— Hannnah P.
- few years ago, finally I found out that asparagus are not big sea fishes.. — nixass