As a kid, I always read a lot, and read a lot of my parents' books. So there were a lot of words that I'd read (and understood) but didn't know how to pronounce.
In high school, I was preparing a Shakespearean monologue for speech class that included the word "whore". Luckily, I practiced at home first, where my mom told me that "war" was not the right way to say it. :)
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- My brother used to believe that when we went to school dogs went to dog school to learn to speak and read— Matt
- When I was in school i thought that teachers read scripts to say good moring blah blah blah— Corina
- I BELIEVED THE TEACHERS COULD READ MY THOUGHTSAnon
- I used to believe that I would one day have a dog, and I would teach him to speak, read, and even write!— Gretchen
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- i thought grown ups read in a different language!Anon