language

I used to believe…

When I first started reading, I eventually came across names like Mr. Jones and Mrs. Smith and whatnot. But my little mind didn't fully understand the concept of abbreviations and thought Mr. was pronounced Mer and Mrs. was pronounced Mers.

I used to believe…

My mother had taught us a song that went:
bird bird bo bird
banana fanna fo fird
me mi mo mird...
bird!
We started singing the song to things around us.
Then we say a truck.
truck truck bo buck... banana fanna fo...

We got in big big trouble. Another time my brother was watching my dad trying to get him a soda. the machine took his money, and he said s**t. My brother then slapped his knee and repeated him. He started to yell, then said 'where did you hear that?!' and he said 'from you!'

I used to believe…

When I was young I thought that the "Danger: High Voltage" signs meant that there was voltage at a taller altitude, not that the voltage was strong. There was a utility pole in our yard so it made since until I saw a ground box and thought "Well, that voltage isn't very high?"

I used to think the the "gyne" in gynecologist was pronounced like the end of the word "vagina," much to my embarrassment when I had to read it out loud in high school health class.

I used to believe…

One summer while my family was visiting my cousin's family, a new family moved into my cousin's neighborhood from Davenport, Iowa. Whether coincidentally or not, it was while playing with my cousin and the new kid from Davenport that I for the first time heard a sofa called a "davenport'. I got thet idea that perhaps in a lot of places people call a sofa by the name of whatever city they are familiar with living in.

I used to believe…

When I started kindergarten, my teacher would call out our full names in class ('Jane Marie Smith' instead of just 'Jane Smith'). For the first week and a half, I did not answer and wondered why she never spoke to me. When she asked my why I never answered her, I explained that she never called my name. A heated argument followed and I went home to tell my mom how crazy my teacher was. I was outraged to find out that my middle name was indeed what the teacher had claimed and was NOT Pumpkin. I quietly apologized to my teacher the next day and have not been called "pumpkin" since.

I used to believe…

when i was around 6 I was at school
when it was recess me and my friends were playing with a little rubber octopus.
i stretched out the tentacle's and one broke off
and so i yelled "oh shoot i broke off one of its testicles!"
I meant to say tentacle.
i had no idea what a testicle was .
I Felt so embarrassed after my teachers reaction.

I used to believe…

My best friend and i were talking one day and i mentioned that my boyfriend's sister was "as pure as the driven snow". My friend said, "Don't you mean the UN-driven snow? It gets pretty dirty after you drive on it." I guess she thought the phrase meant someone was on longer pure, like snow that has been driven over with a vehicle. I tried not to laugh as i explain that it was driven as is blown by the wind, not driven like a car.

I used to believe…

As a child i grew up in england but spoke portguese at home. I didn't know anyone outside of my family who could speak it, therefore i believed that portuguese was a language invented by my family and used only by my family

I used to believe in fuiry tales

I used to believe that the word 'indie' was a way of saying that something was made in India. Like everytime I heard about indie movies & indie music, I wondered how the heck so many things could be made in India! But then it dawned on me that indie meant independent. XD

I'm a Finn, and I used to believe that everyone in the world understands Finnish. Also when, say, two Englishmen would talk English to each other, they actually hear it as Finnish.

I used to believe…

One time, around 4th grade, I got into an argument with a friend. We were trying to decide if it was 'Old Timers Disease' or 'All Timers Disease'. When we asked my friends mother, we found out it was Alzheimer's.

I used to think the shallow end of the pool was the hollow end of the pool.

I used to believe…

when i was small i used to think that stupid was a really bad swear word and when i heard someone say stupid i would bawl my eyes out and then expecially if my sister said it .. i would pull her hair and then one day i realized that it meant dumb and it wasnt bad so i started saying it and teaching little kids it wasnt bad and one day wen i was like 9 years old i told a kinder garden that it wasnt bad and since then i alwayz got in trouble

I don't totally recall how this worked, but I was convinced that there were various languages in the world: French, Chinese, etc. but English was "the REAL language" and referred to it as such.