I have often had strange associations with country names, like Kosov sounding like cassava, and macadamia sounding like Macedonia. There are many other Slavic or Balkan country names like this, such as Turkey and Hungary, that certainly does it for me.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to think Hungary and Turkey were the same country... I have no idea where that came from...— Skylla
- My dad's friend's name is Mac. I used to think his name was short for Macadamia(as in macadamia nut) Anon
- I used to think wars started when a sergeant from one country socked a sergeant from another country.— recovering
- At the age of around five, I realized that my mum's and dad's names were not mum and dad!— yelloworpurple
- I used to believe my parents names were mom and dad till i was 9— Sophiae
- As my parents had given me a name, I thought that it was up to me to give them names tooAnon