When I was learning to read, I was convinced that "$20" was read as "dollars-twenty"—not as "twenty dollars". I refused to believe my mother when she corrected me because my way seemed so obvious.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- When I first started learning to read I was convinced that vowels were called barnacles.— Andy Howell
- I believe my mom had to pay like a million dollars for me to go to school— kelsorocksursocks
I used to believe that some insects had twenty lives.LOLAnon- I used to believe that twenty was the largest number in the universe.— Bernardo Fernandez
- Just this moment I learned that earwigs do not go into your ears, i'm twenty-four.— Sheila
- I used to believe there were numbers called "onety" and 'twoty." I thought "twoty-nine" came before twenty.— CC