My daughter Stella, who is 10 years old, just told me that when she was younger she thought that asking for country's capital city name was equivalent to asking for the country "pet name". That is certainly because - to a kid - the word "Brasilia" sounds like a "pet name" to the word "Brazil" and not the actual name of our capital city. In Brazil we also have a state called "Goiás" whose capital is "Goiânia", another "pet name" in her mind. And then, the funniest of all, was that she then concluded that France's capital would be "Francine".
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that Paris was the capital of London and Italy was the capital of France.Anon
- When I was little, I thought that Amsterdam was the world capital of hamsters!— CountryWay
- I just to think that Norway was the capital of the world— Elin Norway
- I used to believe that Mexico was the capital of Spain— Cadence
- I was sure that Adelaide (where I lived) was the capital of Australia because they both started with
"A"— fiona - I used to believe that England was in the Moon.
I am from Brazil!Anon