When my brother was learning to read he told my mom he wanted to go eat at a resteraunt because they served beaver eggs. When my mom looked at the sign advertising the resteraunt the word he was reading was "beverages"
A childhood belief about reading

others believed things like this
- i used to think that mcdonalds served ballons..(the sign said billions and billions served)Anon
- When I first started learning to read I was convinced that vowels were called barnacles.— Andy Howell
- When I was learning the alphabet,I thought elemeno was one word.— Rick H.
- I used to believe that, no man drank hot beverages, because my father never did. — Sue
- A billboard sign read: Moonshine kills.
I thought being caught outside by the moon would kill me. Humph.Anon - my brother told me rice crispies were really fish eggs we gave to the goldfish. I never ate rice crispies.— johnboy