I used to believe that there was a girl's name written and pronounced "Feebee" and an entirely different girl's name spelt "Phoebe" and pronounced 'fobe' like 'earlobe'.
When I see the name in print, I stll find it hard to pronounce it 'feebee'.
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I found it hard to say "Sebastian". I always pronounced it "Sebastican". — Dave, Lancashire
- i used to believe that 'island' was pronounced 'is-land' instead. I know im not alone on that one! :)
— Da KornMeal - I used to think that New York was pronounced "Yew Nork"Anon
- when i was little i used to think bumble bee was actually pronounced bumbow bee— cathy
- I used to believe that L-M-N-O-P was 1 letter, pronounced elemenopeeAnon
- I used to believe that the name Giselle was pronounced "gazelle"— Derek