spelling

When I was 3 years old, my father was telling me about the difference between the physical and the spiritual. I was just learning to read and spell at the time but wasn't very good yet and I asked him if physical was spelled "f i s c a l". He then had to explain to me what fiscal meant.

Pthalo

i had heard the word naive before and knew what it meant, but whenever i saw it written i thought it was a completley different word, pronounced like 'nave'. i beleived this for a very long time, until finally i was reading or something and suddenly it clicked that it was the same word! sadly that was only about a month ago

one smart 13 yr old

I used to think that an explanation mark only had a dot at the bottem because they were normally at the end of a sentence and it was the full stop. If there was an explanation mark in the middle of a sentence, it would just be the stick.

Anon

When I was younger I thought that the word 'satin' was 'satan'. My entire family is made up of Chirstians so I was very confused as to why people bought things that had 'satan' in them. Who labels that satan is in a product anyway?! I believed this until I was about 7 and I miss read it to my grandmother who laughed and told me what it really was.

Deirdre

For some reason, when in Grade 4, i was near one of the kindergarden classrooms and absentmindedly started counting the number of alphabets as the kids were learning the letters loud.. "a,b,c,d...x,y,and,z"..
I was shellshocked to see my 27th finger come up and was deeply upset about not knowing all the alphabets. After several hours of anguish, i fished out the missing link.

Bala

In preschool and kindergarten, the class would sing the alphabet together every morning. We'd say x, y, AND, Z, but my little ears thought we were saying n. It wasn't until recently that I realized why I was so confused.

Jamie Elaine

i thought read, as in 'i read' was spelled READE because of the way we spell breathe, and breath. i never got that word straight till i was 13...all the kids used to make funny of me and told my i should READ more...

reade

I thought 'Disney' was spelt 'Gisney' because of on TV, the D was all curly and looked more like a backwards G. I was never able to read it as a 'd' and the closest thing I could figure out was a 'G'.
I eventually figured out the font was just weird and it wasn't Gisney.

Anon

You know how a bunch of people on this section have posted beliefs saying that they used to write the letter E with as many horizontal lines as they wanted? Well, my sister used to do something similar to the letter S. She thought the letter S could go back and forth as many times as she wanted. She has an S in her name, so she would write her name with a weird scribble instead of an S. If you've ever drawn random zig-zags in your journal while bored in class, it looked just like that, only smaller.

Anon

I used to be convinced that N came up twice in the alphabet. L N N O P... You get the picture

Dyslexic

I used to think 'elleminopee' was a letter of the alphabet. It came right after K and before Q.

(Think about it.)

Gary

When I learned that you do not capitalise seasons, ex summer, not Summer, I thought it was a new grammer rule, and a few years ago, you DID capitalise seasons.

Why?

when i was little i thought "done" was spelled "dun"
and up until 9th grade i thought "beetles" as in the bug was spelled "beatles" i didn't look right to me to spell it with 2 e's

jill

As a six-year old I moved to Hong Kong and thought that maybe if i stretched my eyes to make them "slitty" then I would be able to read Chinese.

mike

I used to believe the word rapide didn't mean fast but a median speed, I made this connection because the national express buses which travelled at or below 70 mph used to have this word emblazened on their sides, whereas the trains that travelled at 125 mph had the words intercity.

Rob

I used to spell visit, vist until I was 16.

Amy

I used to believe the word cigar was spelled like "sugar."

Stephanie

iused to think that L-M-N-O-P was a Diffrent kind of p an ELMNO P

dick army

I used to believe that obituary was spelled the way it sounded (obitchuary).. yeah....my spelling wasnt so great :]

sarah

I used to think that there was a letter called elemento P, because in the alphabet song they sing "H-I-J-K-elemento P", and i wondered what "elemento" meant!

Anon