language

I thought "sake" was a curse word

I distinctly remember thinking in elementary school that there was an English word 'ol', as in "I ol go to the store this afternoon" or "They ol be surprised when they see this".

I used to think that when you saw comments from 'the Guardian' on the back of kids books, it was somebodys guardian saying their child enjoyed the book, as I didn't know it was a newspaper.

I thought the word "melodramatic" was actually "mellow-dramatic", and thought it was a really dumb word since it was basically an oxymoron (how can something be mellow and dramatic at the same time?)

I used to think the Guardian newspaper was named after someone's guardian, and when I saw comments from the Guardian on the back of books that I read as a kid, I thought it was someone's guardian saying their child enjoyed the book.

I used to think that Americans and Australians were just British people living abroad and speaking with an alternative accent because they are international
Lol.

I used to believe…

My mom thought "ambulance" was "ambliance"

I used to believe the letters were squiggles and each squiggle represented a word.

I was about eleven and knew that the f-word was bad, so i asked my mom and dad if I could say "f*cky" since it wasn't exactly the same thing. When they said no, I was shocked. So I couldn't say forms of swear words.

I thought the phrase "At one's disposal" meant you should dispose of the person or thing.

I thought that "shit" was just a rude way of saying "stuff", rather than specifically meaning fecal matter, due to how people say things like "I don't have time for this shit."

I used to believe…

When I was thirteen, I thought that FTW stood for Fuck The World.

I used to believe that accord was short for accordion

I used to think that the word pizzazz was something to do with pizza.

I used to believe…

When I was 4, I used to think LMNOP was one letter, Ellemenopee. I used to sing like this:
ABCDEFG
HIJKELLEMENOPEE
QRSTUV
WXYZ

I used to think that foreign languages were only spoken by people of that nationality and everyone else just had to speak English.