i used to be a bit of a pretensious kid when i was younger, and thought one day that i'd give reading 'don quixote' a go. unsurprisingly i gave up shortly after, but it wasn't until years later that i found out the book wasn't about a bloke called 'don' whose second name was pronounced 'quick-sote'. genius.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- When I was little i thought lb for pounds was pronounced lubs, and i called them that for 2 years. Anon
- when i was younger, i thought that people disappeared when i wasn't with them.— Debbie
- I used to think that if you ate cat food you would die. I found out it wasn't true
— Bob#4 - THat Cheesecake was actually made of cheese. I was 18 when I found out it wasn't!— R
- When I was a kid I found it hard to say "Sebastian". I always pronounced it "Sebastican". — Dave, Lancashire
- When I was younger, I thought that Labour Day was when all sorts of women gave birth.— Greg