I'm 18 now, but until about 2 years ago I thought pavlova and palaver were the same word... I didn't realise one was a dessert!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- Phil Collins song "I missed again" - I thought it was "I pis*ed again" - didn't realise he was an alcoholic?!Anon
- I used to believe that all dessert was birthday cake.— David
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m