Me and my brother used to think the site PolishForums was a forum site about nail polish until we clicked the link. We found out it was not about nail polish, shoe polish, furniture polish, or anything related to polishing stuff. It was confusing...
A childhood belief about foreign languages

others believed things like this
- Polish war memorial ,I thought it was an instruction.as in to polish— oddsox
- As a youngster, my older brother told me that polish sausage was really the bull's genitals. — Ross
- I used to believe that people from Holland were called "Hollish", like people from Poland are called "Polish"— Sally
- I used to think that the moon was God's toe nail, when it was in the shape of a crecent— Ms.imagination
- I didn't know whether nail files were supposed to make your nails sharper or duller.Anon
- I used to believe that a half moon was gods finger nail, and his finger was pointing downwards.— clo