I used to believe that the word "world" was spelled and pronounced "waild". I may have misheard it but caught the meaning. I was only corrected when I asked if the road we lived on was connected to all the other roads in the waild.
A childhood belief about spelling
others believed things like this
- I used to think that heater was spelled "header"(which i didn't know was pronounced hedder)— Olivia
- I used to believe that we lived inside of the world. I asked my Dad who lived on the outside of the world. — Pauline
- I used to believe the word shoes was spelled shouse. It looked right to me... — Shouse
- I used to believe that the rapper Eminem's name was spelled M&M and anyone named Juan was spelled one.Anon
- When I was young I used to think that WHSmith was all one word, and was thus pronounced "Wwwhhhhuuusmith"— Nathan
- I used to believe that the word 'circumstances' was pronounced 'circus dancers'.— Mel