When i was a kid i thought that there was an English town called "Lestershire" and an entirely different town called "Leicestershire" that is pronounced the way it's spelled.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- When I was little i thought lb for pounds was pronounced lubs, and i called them that for 2 years. Anon
- I used to think that heater was spelled "header"(which i didn't know was pronounced hedder)— Olivia
- I thought there was only one copy of a movie and you had to wait til it got to your town,— quagmire
- When i was about 6 years old, i thought God was washing his"LEGO" town, when it was raining here.— Meie
- I used to believe that if I spelled Norwegian words backwards, it would be English. I don't anymore...— Gudrun
- I used to believe that at the beach town where we spent the summer, they took the sidewalks in for the winter.— Missy