When I first heard the word "lumberjack", I thought it was "Numberjack" like the TV show The Numberjacks. When I was corrected, I thought a lumberjack was a dude named Jack who lumbered around.
A childhood belief about work
others believed things like this
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- My daughter thought Paul McCartney was singing "Hey Dude" instead of "Hey Jude". Anon
- 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
- I thought Jack was a nickname for Jackery ( like Zack and Zachary).— Bootlebat
- I thought your loins were kidneys, and nobody corrected me until I was a teenagerAnon