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I used to believe that the word "world" was spelled and pronounced "waild". I may have misheard it but caught the meaning. I was only corrected when I asked if the road we lived on was connected to all the other roads in the waild.
Waild
I used to believe that the word "little" had five letters. Maybe it was because most of the letters in it were thin, or because the two t's blended together. Writing "litle" always looked wrong to me, but I didn't know why.
litle
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.
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As a kid I believed that the word "artificial" was actually "art official", as if artificial things were products of some kind of "official" art.
Carolyn Morgenstern
When I was very young, I thought that "the" was pronounced "thee", and if you meant "th-uhh", you had to spell it "th".
Currently, an excellent speller.
For most of my life I spelled "father" as "farter". Why did no one correct me, especially my very own farter?!?
When I was in 2nd grade, I thought once you got to 3rd grade you knew how to spell all the words in the English language. That's why I always asked the 3rd graders at daycare for homework help!
Kelsey
When my mother was very small, she wrote a page of scribble "writing" and showed it to her mother. She remarked that it wasn't "real" writing. My mother was very confused and argued that it was indeed real (in the sense of existing). She thought her mother literally couldn't see the writing.
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One time while I was at recess in preschool, I went through the whole alphabet in my head, trying to figure out which letter made the ŋ (ng) sound.
When I was a little kid, for some unknown reason I thought the word rinse was spelled "wrince." I even argued with my dad when he corrected me.
You know that thing you use to carry load of stuff around the garden and outside? It has one wheel. Yeah, a wheelbarrow. Well until I was about 14 I thought it was called a wheelbarrel because you would put a barrel in the metal part and wheel it away!
My friend believed until his senior year in high school that the word drawer was spelled "joor". We couldn't figure out why he would spell it that way and spent a lot of time sounding out the word drawer to hear the j.
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When I was very young -- before kindergarten -- I was already very good at reading and spelling. Like other kids here, I asked my parents how to spell the letters of the alphabet. How do you spell A? How do you spell B? etc.
I accepted their answer that letters were not things that you spell because they're the things that are used FOR spelling. I decided I would try to spell the letters anyways. I remember writing them down: Ay, Bee, See, Dee, and so on.
See was more properly spelled Cee, because I thought the word should be spelled with the letter that it means. I was particularly proud of Aitch, even though it has the H at the end rather than beginning with H. I was quite baffled by Kew (Kyoo? Cue?) because I couldn't get a Q into it. If I'd known the word Queue at the time I might have considered the project more of a success.
Brenda
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When my friend was 6 she used to misspell heroine as "heroine". She'd once written, "My favorite thing about movies is the heroin" in her essay, and then her parents were called to explain the situation.
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when I was a child I had never seen Jennifer Lopez written down so I thought her name was Jenny Ferlopez x)
Cath
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I use to believe that a "Prima Donna" was "Pre-Madonna"---someone before Madonna's time.
Lacey S
I though that when people said someone was in a coma, they were saying acoma. I didn't know that it was two seperate words. I thought that until I saw the word in a book when I was about 12
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A friend of mine believed that your handwriting was based on the pen you used, so she would try to steal her mother's pen because her handwriting was really neat.
Pen pal
When I was in preschool I was terrified of the letter "Z". When we practiced writing our letters I would come to the end of the alphabet, and start crying. I was scared because I was convinced I didn't know how to write it.
Anon
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