language

i used to think Greenwich Mean Time (GMT, uk) was "Village Green Time" and when i asked why, i was told it was because back in the day there was only one sun dial in the town and people would all go by it.

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When I was young, I remember hearing my dad say that a co-worker of his was fired. Not knowing the meaning of 'fired' at the time, I pictured his co-worker being attacked a literal wall of fire.

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"Better than sliced bread"

I used to believe 'Sliced Bread' was a musical band.

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When I was very young -- before kindergarten -- I was already very good at reading and spelling. Like other kids here, I asked my parents how to spell the letters of the alphabet. How do you spell A? How do you spell B? etc.

I accepted their answer that letters were not things that you spell because they're the things that are used FOR spelling. I decided I would try to spell the letters anyways. I remember writing them down: Ay, Bee, See, Dee, and so on.

See was more properly spelled Cee, because I thought the word should be spelled with the letter that it means. I was particularly proud of Aitch, even though it has the H at the end rather than beginning with H. I was quite baffled by Kew (Kyoo? Cue?) because I couldn't get a Q into it. If I'd known the word Queue at the time I might have considered the project more of a success.

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When my friend was 6 she used to misspell heroine as "heroine". She'd once written, "My favorite thing about movies is the heroin" in her essay, and then her parents were called to explain the situation.

I thought that Saturday was actually "Sadderday" because it was some how sadder than the other days of the week!

I used to believe the show Law and Order was a gardening show called Lawn and Order.

I used to believe that everyone in the world spoke the same language (my language) and when they spoke they used the same words but it just came out differently, (depending on which country you were in that moment) , so it sounded like another language. So I could speak to all people in the world and they would understand me!

I used to believe the "Lawn and Garden" section in Wal Mart was my uncle's. Lonnie Garden? Makes sense...right? :) To this day I always think about uncle Lonnie everytime the intercom comes on at Wal Mart :) lol

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There's a store near me called "Cartons & Crates". When I was young, I thought the sign said "Cartoons & Crates", and since I liked cartoons, I wondered why we never went there. Ironically, they started selling art supplies a few years ago.

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When I was a little kid I thought "End's Meat" was some sort of rare delicacy with a very complicated recipe because I kept hearing about people having a hard time trying to make it.

I used to think the saying "take something for granted" was "take something for granite" and figured it was because granite isn't very valuable so if you take something for granite you don't think its very valuable

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When i was younger, i had a really big book of poems, and i thought anon. was just one person, and i used to think that he must be really famous to have go so many poems in to one book.

I thought eavesdropping was actually "easedropping" because it was so easy!

I grew up in Denmark, where the 2nd language we learn is English, and the 3rd is German. I thought that Denmark was an island in the sea, then England was another neighbouring island, and then Germany was beyond England, etc. And such, all the countries are therefore lined up, with the easiest language (Danish) first, and the hardest last.

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when I was really young, about 3 years old, I just learned to burp the alphabet. My dad tried to scare me by telling me that if i kept on burping the alphabet as often as i did, my normal voice would disappear and change in to the sound you make while burping. i found that really cool and every day i spent hours burping, just to achieve that voice, quite disappointed was I, when I realised it didn't happen