For the longest time I thought the phrase "Dog eat dog world" was actually "Doggy dog world" and this made me happy because I liked dogs.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- Until a few years ago, I believed this was a "doggy dog" world, rather than a "dog-eat-dog" world.— jemima
- I used to think that the phrase "It's a dog eat dog world'' was its a dogey dog world.— Gabral
- The line 'The dark sacred night' in What A Wonderful World is actually 'The dogs say goodnight'...— rebecca
- I thought the world was black and white because of all the smoke from the bombs in Second World War.— Bjoern
- i thought hot dogs were made from real dogs and sum tasted good sum didnt.— Wayne
- Thanks to the movie "Annie", I thought hot dogs were made from real dogs. — Katie