When I was learning the alphabet, I wanted to know how to "spell" the letters. My dad would tell me "this is the letter 'A'", and I would say "Okay. How do you spell that?" We both got very frustrated as he tried to explain that you can't spell letters, and I told him they didn't count then.
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
- I used to think "Zed" and "Zee" were two different letters.Anon
- In preschool, I thought that the letter N came twice in the alphabet- W X Y N ZAnon