For some reason, I thought the word “holly” wasn’t used to signify a genus of plants, but used to abbreviate “holiday(s)” as an adjective, or created to rhyme with “jolly.”
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- ‘Unadulterated’ meant that something wasn’t rated 18+ and was therefore safe for kids— Evie
- I thought plants only grew when people were not looking at them.Anon
- I used to think Yiddish was pronounced to rhyme with Swedish.Anon
- Before I went to a planetarium for the first time, I thought it was just a room full of plants. Anon
- 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 heirloom plants grew antiques— Honorary intern Hector