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When I was little I thought people that spoke foreign languages made it up as they went along, because it seemed no one ever understood them other than the people they knew. There was a monolingual Spanish kid in my preschool class and, based on this belief, went over and started trying to talk to him in gibberish. I'm sure the adults thought it was sweet, but that kid probably thought I was crazy after that...
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I thought when someone was described as being "mild-mannered" it meant they didn't have very good manners
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When i was in playschool we used to get sweets on a Friday, our teacher would always say "you'll all get sweets tomorrow" on a Thursday. I firmly believed "tomorrow" was another word for "friday".
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When I was learning to read, I was convinced that "$20" was read as "dollars-twenty"�not as "twenty dollars". I refused to believe my mother when she corrected me because my way seemed so obvious.
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Quite a few years ago, we went away with some friends near Christmas time and we were talking abut what our New Year's resolutions were going to be, and one of my friends said she gesticulated a lot when she talked and that her family etc said it can be annoying, so she was going to try and not do it so much. I had no idea what it meant, but for some reason, I thought it was something to do with sex, so i looked round really awkwardly as if to say 'Is she allowed to say that????' even though no one else flinched when she said it. I now realise why!!
I used to believe that the word "prosecuted" meant shot or killed. I have no idea why I thought this. Imagine the fear I had every time I saw a sign saying "Violators will be prosecuted" or "Trespassers will be prosecuted."
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When I was younger, I used to think when my mom said "P.O. Box" she was really saying "Pill Box." So I wondered why she would call it as pill box as if there were medicine pills in there when there was only mail. Just recently am I finding out that it's pronounced Pee-Oh box.
I used to think people were saying "Youth in Asia" when talking about "Euthanasia." I never understood why everyone was obsessed with talking about little kids from Asia.
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I used to believe that people were born with accents.
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I used to think that pounds were called lubs since they are notated as lbs..
I belived that foreign people thought English in there heads.
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i used to believe that our voice is limited. if you talk too much as a kid, you wont be able to talk again when you're old.
I honestly used to believe that English was the world's official language, and all other languages were secondary.
I used to believe that if I spoke any sort of gibberish I'd actually be speaking some secret spell that would unleash bad things (monsters, plagues, death) upon the world.
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For most of my life, I've thought that a jukebox was actually a "jutebox."
I also recently found out that it's "eavesdrop" as apposed to "easedrop," which I thought it was.
I used to think Spanish was just English spoken backwards.
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when i was a kid i used to think english was another language
I used to believe that musical notes were a different language. Like Chinese or Japanese a language with characters I could not understand. So I would always ask people to read music to me thinking it would be an actual story.
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When I was little I thought that the saying was "party gifts" instead of "parting gifts". I thought that the people who lost on games shows got prizes that were called party gifts because they were fun!
I used to believe when I was little that "cognito" was a place because I would hear the phrase "____ is hiding incognito".
