When I was little I saw the word "applause" and thought it said "applesauce"
A childhood belief about reading
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
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m
- Up until I was 10 or 11, I thought the word anonymous was 'annoymous'.Anon
- I thought all you had to do to speak Russian was add -ski to the end of every word!— nateski
- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M. - whenever the tv announcer said "brought to you", I thought it was one word - "brotue".Anon