Having been taught phonics in grade school, I believed I could sound out virtually any word. The Plymouth dealership sign across from my uncle's home made me think they must use plywood to make the front end.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that at the end of the universe was a big plywood wall.— matt
- I usd to believe that at restaurants that had a BYO sign out the front, you had to "bring your own" meal.— Fiona
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- There was a popular rumor back in grade school that BUBBLE YUM gum was made with spider eggs.— Amber
- this guy i used to go to school with thought that Ned Kelly was his uncleAnon
- A[n] nth grade teacher only had to finish the nth grade when he or she was in school.— MD Caruso