when i was younger i believed that the english language was invented by a group of four or so biblical looking characters who sat around in a cave taking it in turns to invent words for things.
A childhood belief about spelling

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that foreigners' ears translated English words to their own languageAnon
- I used to believe my nieghboor jose invented the language spanish and he got rich and bought cars— Thomas
- I used to believe that the whole world spoke the same language- English.Anon
- I used to believe that english was the only real language and all the others were just made up after.Anon
- I used to believe that "elemeno P" was a certain kind of "P" found only in the English language. Anon
- I used to think that adults spoke an entirely different language (not English) when kids weren't around. — Swordfish