After being corrected for saying "doin'" instead of "doing", my friend's daughter decided it was bad grammar to pronounce ANY word with an "-n" sound at the end. For years she added a g to the ends of words- "button"became "butting", "kitten" was "kitting". She even called a classmate "Kristing".
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to pronounce the word "Computer" as "Crocuta"
Anon - I used to think that the word Great was added to Britain because they won the Second World War.— Age
- When I was i kid I used to believe that if i strained too hard while doin #2 I would poop my lungs out...— K.Gordon
- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M. - I used to believe that the words Angliphile and Francophile were related to the word paedophiles.Anon
- I use to believe the sound that a car made when it was running low on gas was what they called horse power...— Bianca