When I was very little, I used to believe that letters were words. I would constantly ask "How do you spell B??" And would get very frustrated whenever anyone told me that you spelled it "B".
A childhood belief about spelling
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I spelled Norwegian words backwards, it would be English. I don't anymore...— Gudrun
- I used to believe that the rapper Eminem's name was spelled M&M and anyone named Juan was spelled one.Anon
- 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 believe that you spelled "ESSAY" like "SA" and "EASY" like "EZ".— Lauren
- I used to think the raper eminem was spelled M&M.— Rambles
- I used to think "Disney" was spelled D I S N E P. because they'd loop the "y" and it looked like a "p"! — Rebecca Sears