I believed as a kid that there were "Irish numerals" just like there were Roman numerals. And that the letters for the Irish numerals were S, H, N, and T. (instead of Roman numerals I, V, X, and L - those were the only ones I knew at the time - I learned C, D, and M later)
A childhood belief about counting

others believed things like this
- Even though I knew about Roman numerals when I was younger, I thought that there was 11 world wars.Anon
- I used to think all people with green eyes were IrishAnon
- When i heard about Irish Bombers on the news during the 70s i used to think that planes were dropping bombs.— Moose
- Until I was well along in years I always thought our family was Irish because my dads birthday was March 17th— Gladys
- I thought Marco Polo was Irish.
Mark O'Polo.— Claire Sparkes - I used to think "Zed" and "Zee" were two different letters.Anon