When I was at school I learned the alphabet as Aay Bee Cee Dee etc, my cousin [a year younger] was taught the phonetic alphabet Ah Buh Cuh Duh etc she asked me if I could say the alphabet so I started saying A B c, but she stopped me because she didn't know the capital letters [i.e uppercase] alphabet ...
Speaking of which I heard a kid in a shop asking his mother what "re-dock-ed" meant, he pointed to the signs sayign "reduced" and spelled it out using the phonetic alphabet, and indeed it did say re-dock-ed when spelled phonetically ...
A childhood belief about spelling
others believed things like this
- My cousin, who's my age always thought there were two n's in the alphabet. 'l-m-N-o-p' and 'w-x-y-N-z'— Ashley
- I could never figure out what an "Elomenopee" was till I learned the alphabet a bit better. "L-M-N-O-P"— Lula
- I used to believe there were two "N"'s in the alphabet. As in... L, M, N, O, P..... and X, Y, N, Z.— kim
- I used to belive there were two N's in the alphabet, one after M and one before Z.Anon
- When I was little I thought that you said minnow in the alphabet. You know m, n, o...— Brandy
- In preschool, I thought that the letter N came twice in the alphabet- W X Y N ZAnon