As a child my reading vocabulary was much larger than my spoken vocabulary. As a result, for years, I thought that 'Yosemite Sam" was prounounced with two syllables, a long O AND a long I sound (yOse - mIte). Imagine my surprise when I first heard somebody prounounce Yo-seh-mih-tee!
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I thought that 1983 went on for 3 years - had to ask my sister who decided how long a year lasted.— Sally
- when I was a child I thougt taht sea waves are the result of whales swimming— waleed bokhari
- I used to think a female daddy-long-legs was called a "mummy-long-legs".Anon
- I had tinnitus as a child and used to believe that it was the sound that the devil made when he was closeby— Helen
- I was told as a child that the sound of thunder was from angels bowling in the clouds.— Patty, NY
- I thought my brain would explode if it was in the sun too long— Heather