I thought "hors d'ouevres" was pronounced "horse dee-overs," until my Mom set me straight at about age 10.
She laughed and laughed at that one.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I was a young boy I thought when we cried or when we laughed we won or we lost one minute of our life. — loulou83
- I also thought that people in different countries coughed, sneezed, laughed, or cried in their own language!— Mini
- When I was little I used to believe that people laughed in different languages...— Jessica Louise
- i used to believe if a cow laughed, milk would come out from her nose!Anon
- i used to ask my mom how people laughed in diferent languages!Anon
- The first time I hear about a serial killer, I laughed. You can't kill cereal. It's not alive.Anon