i used to think that when people sang in foreign languages they were just singing pretend words that they made up as they went along. i wasn't pleased, i thought i'd invented that game.
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When I was six at school we had a girl from Australia join us. Being interested in animals, I wanted to know what they were called in Australian. I didn't believe her when she told me a Kangaroo was called a Kangaroo in Australian nor when she told me a Koala Bear was called a Koala Bear. I told her she was making it up and wasn't really from Australia. I am now 33.
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When I was learning to count, I always left out 7. Then, when I finally got used to it being between 6 & 8, I started to leave out 17... I always believed that it couldn't be a proper number because it always had one more syllable than those around it.
I also used to believe that 100 was the biggest number. When the boy next door told me the biggest number was infinity, I flew into a rage, called him a silly white pooper (our worst insult at the time) and refused to beilve him. I grudgingly admitted he was right several years later, after he badgered me about it about once a month until I did. I've always hated being wrong.
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My dad is a builder and uses alot of colourful language, but had always admonished my brother and I never to copy any of it. However, I could never understand why he would describe someone who was restless and fidgety (especially if in and out of a seat)as "up and down like a horse's drawers." What he'd actually said was "whore's drawers". (drawers are panties if you're american).
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When we were younger and went on walks my sister always used to get the binoculars wrong. She used to ask my mum to pass her "big nockers" over so she could have a look out of them.
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My friend told me she had invented the expression 'Gordon Bennett' and I believed her!
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When I was about 5 I heard someone talk French into a phone and thought that they must have some kind of special adapter for an english phone to work in french.
I never understood the abbreviation for White anglo-saxon Protestant (WASP) so as a teenager I thought these initials stood for "Women Absent of Sexual Preference"!!
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I used to think that foreign people coughed and sneezed in a different language.
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I was so awed at meeting a real live French person who was on an exchange visit to our school that I asked him for his autograph...ouch...
I used to believe that 'a couple' meant three of something and 'a few' meant four of something. So, if my Dad asked me to go and get a couple of cups I would come back with three!
I always used to spell 'They' 'Thay'. When I was in year one, my teacher was marking my book and told me the correct way of spelling 'They'. I was very upset (I almost cried!) and argued my case like hell, and I was certain I would win, but I didn't. It shoud be spelt phonetically in my opinion. But you just wait. I'll get my revenge on teachers in Britain.....MUWAH HA HA HA HA
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When I much younger, I thought that the alphabet, instead of containing the letters L-M-N-O, there was a letter that had a very long name: elemeno. Around this time, my family had bought a computer, and I was convinced that the space bar was the "elemeno" key. Elemeno had always been my favorite letter, until I reached kindergarten and learned the real alphabet.
I used to sing English songs in Gibberish believing that I was singing them in English...
I used to believe that the word "strawberry" was actually spelt "BBBB". Why? Because my sister used to pronounce it "Forby".
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when i was about 6, my mum told me a joke. it was 'how many letters are in the alphabet.....25 because the angel said no L ' i never used to get it so i used to go around saying 'cos the angel took away the g'
I used to believe that there were only 100 peple in the whole world. I remember being very confused sitting in School assembly when I was about 6 and realising that there were more than 100 people in the room.
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I used to think a church choir (I pronounced it 'chore') and a church 'quire' were two different words for the same thing.
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When I was little, I said "Hachy-bachy" instead of hibachi (those little outdoor grills.) So everyone started calling them that, and we even called propane grills "Hachy bachy" as well. When I was about 22, my father sent me to Sears to price "Hachy bachys." The guy at Sears looked at me like I was complete moron, and I at last discovered that there was no such thing as a "Hachy Bachy."