language

I once thought that I invented the word "buoy". At the time I hadn't learned to spell very much, so I would have been more likely to spell it "booey" or something like that. On my family's first trip to the beach since I came along, as we were nearing the shore, something possessed me to say, "We'll see booeys at the beach!" Maybe I had heard of buoys but forgotten, but something subconsciously prompted me to say that. But I thought at the time I was purely making it up. Once at the beach, I'd point to all sorts of unfamiliar objects, and ask, "Is that a booey?" At first my father would say "Yes" to my question for whatever I pointed to. For a while I supposed he was just going along with my game of making up the word. The first time I remember him saying "No," we were on a ferry ride, and I'd asked the question within the hearing of the ferry operator. In retrospect, I guess my father didn't want the ferry operator to hear him telling me something was a buoy that wasn't. Before the ferry ride was over I was having actual buoys pointed out to me. Gradually I learned to use the word only for real buoys. But for a long time I thought that perhaps they were never called "buoys" until I "invented" the word.

I used to believe…

when i was little i used to think the "TO LET" sign had been mispelled and was meant to say "TOILET"

I used to call fish sticks 'fish dicks.' (It really sounds like that!) Of course I didn't know what a dick was, but I knew it made all the adults laugh every time I said it, so I just kept saying it over and over intentionally to get them roaring.

I used to think that "Rape" and "Cape" were somehow one and the same.

I used to believe the word "movie" was pronounced"wee-oovie"

I used to think that fart was a bad word and then i heard my mom say it once and I was so shocked.

I used to believe…

When I was in preschool I thought that the number a hundred preceeded the number one hundred.

I used to believe…

When I was about 3 or 4 I used to count the days of the month as oneth, tooth, third, fourth, fifth...
I'm not sure how I got the third right.

I use to think that slow-poke was a bad word because my mom always used and she seemed to be mad when she said it.

i used to think the word "suck" was a swear word

I used to believe…

My sister and her friend used to go around and speak jibberish. They told me they were speaking Chinese, so I argued non-stop with them. In the end I believed that they could really speak Chinese.

I used to believe that "prosecuted" and "executed" were the same word, and that shoplifting laws ("shoplifters will be prosecuted!") were rather draconian.

I used to believe…

When I was 6, I used to believe that the S' word meant "To pee".

I used to believe that I had created the word "lesbian" when I was in the 4th grade. I had never heard the word before and used it in naming a landform (i.e. Lesbian Lake) for a social studies assignment involving naming your own country and creating mountain ranges, bodies of water, and cities within the country. I had thought of the word "Lebanese" and turned the letters around because "lesbian" sounded like something important and creative...only my teacher did not see it that way, and made a big deal out of it (since she was not a nice teacher anyway). In front of the entire class, she made me look up the word, and (no kidding) in my dictionary, it said "homo". I was laughed at for days. Gotta love paranoid people in the 1980's.

i used to believe that the word chimney was made up and it was actually chimley. i believed it until i was about 11 and even thought someone had made a joke dictionary to trick me. i believed it up until i heard that song that goes chim chimney chim chimney chim chim charoo. lmfao.

I used to think that people who didnt speak english translated what they spoke or heard from other people into english in their head!