I thought the word "divvy" was slang for "divide." So, I would say "8 divvy 2" instead of "8 divided by 2." I'm sure my parents and teachers were confused!
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- For whatever reason, I thought that grass was slang for tobacco rather than marijuana.Anon
- I used to think Cockneys only ever talked in rhyming slang.Anon
- "Chassis" is slang for a woman's body, especially her genitalia.
— Siddharth Mehrotra - I believed that our teachers lived at school. They were teachers--they had no reason to leave :)(Anon
- I used to believe that teachers built missiles when they went to the teachers lounge.— HOLLIS
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny