In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- Up until 8th grade or so, I was convinced that I invented the word "Fart"— Jonah
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m
- Up until I was 10 or 11, I thought the word anonymous was 'annoymous'.Anon
- I thought all you had to do to speak Russian was add -ski to the end of every word!— nateski