When i was like five, I was convinced that an antelope was something you put letters in.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- I used to think cantaloupes were antelope eggs.— watch the fireworks
- I used to read about Lady Penelope and believe that her name was pronounced Penny-lope (lope as in antelope).Anon
- I used to think "Zed" and "Zee" were two different letters.Anon
- From the first six letters of this word, I thought that “megalomania” had something to do with megalodons.— Enrico
- a friend was convinced that his school was an asylum, and couldn't be convinced otherwiseAnon
- I used to believe that translating from language into language was only a matter of changing letters ! :) — EwS