language

I used to believe…

When at school (in wales) we were taught umah was "here" (not sure if thats the correct spelling). So when we moved to england "umah" was a slang for oh dear or you've done somthing wrong.

Ummaahhh. "Yes i know your here."

lol haven't been told otherwise yet. ;)

I used to believe…

Maybe a feature of my minor variant of dyslexia, maybe not ... as I kid I pronounced 'schweppes' as skech-e-ewipes- ... needless to say there were many parental corrections until I finally got my tongue around it - and in those days I only encountered it on planes!

I watched the Peanuts halloween TV special, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," every year when I was a kid. I got very confused when Linus kept saying that his pumpkin patch had nothing but sincerity "as far as the eye can see" because, besides not knowing what sincerity was, I always heard the last part as "asfarazee I can see." I always wondered what an asfarazee was and why it was so great that Linus could see it.

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When I was little i was watching the movie Chucky and when he said Bastard I though he was saying Baxter like Buster Baxter from Arther

I used to (and still do) classify all the colors, abc's, and even numbers into either male or female. For example, a, s, and z are the only female abc's! Red, pink, orange, yellow, and white are girls, and any number that ends with 2, 3, 5, or 8 is a girl! Everything else is a male. Lol :)

I used to believe…

any bad word had 4 letterd and ONLY bad words had 4 letters.

Til I did a cross word with tons of 4 letter words. (none bad)
And at a diffrent time found the words B**** and A**

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For some reason I thought that the word "tardy" meant dirty. One time in 3rd grade I was late to school, so my dad was writing a letter to my teacher and I was reading over his shoulder, and when I saw what he wrote, I exclaimed "Why would you say I'm tardy?!" and started checking my sweater for dirt and smoothing down my hair. He told me that it just meant late, but I still insisted that he change the word to "late" not tardy, because I was not dirty!

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When I was little I used to think the word illegal was a sick bird! And always felt bad for all of the eagles in the news when I heard about some illegal act.. What a strange child was I.

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When my sister was little, we would stay at home alone together a lot. We were sitting around one night when the phone rang. I went and answered it and came back It was just a telemarketer so I had hung up rather quickly. My sister asked who it was, and I was in the mood to speak fancily. So I told her it was a solicitor. She wouldn't stop screaming that I shouldn't scare her like that and to stop being mean. She was so loud, it took me a while to calm her down. Once she had settled herself a bit, she let me know (very defiantly) that she knew solicitor meant murderer and that I was just trying to scare her.

i used to belive that English wasa THE frist langudge, and every other country coppied off of us, and that we were the origanal and only ours counted, and no other one was real. they just jibber jabbered...

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in 4th grade, me and a bunch of people were coming up with words that rhymed with "Mitch" because he was a guy there, so there was like fitch glitch etc, but i couldnt remember if it was "bitch" or "ditch" that was bad, so i yelled out as loud as i could "BITCH" then the whole teachers table looked at our table...lol

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When i was really little, every time my mom came home with a bag of something, I was always ask what was in it. Every time i got the same responce: "Hooks to catch suckers, and you're the first to bite." Well, I never really listened to the second part. All i knew is that i wanted to get into that bag and get some of the 'special' hooks to catch me some suckers! (what little kid doesn't like candy?) It wasn't until i was about 17 that i realized the meaning behind that saying. Thankx so much mom.

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When I was about six, I always head people talking about the "F word." Since I didn't know the word in question, I assumed that they meant "fart." Now my teacher was very strict, and you got in big trouble for saying it. One day I was sent home with a letter, and upon seeing the envelope attached to my shirt, she asked "what did you do?" My reply? "I said the F word." My mother turned white and started to panic..until she opened the note, that is.

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When i was like 8 me and my friends had a "band".
we called it a band but we really argued more than we played. so anyway, i used to think that f**k meant be quiet,so whenever or drum guy started playing, i would look at him and say, "f**k your drums, u suck!" he would look at me shocked. i also didn't know what "u suck" refered to.

i used to think that the word "candid" meant "candied", so when i heard of candid photos, i thought that it meant photographs that were somehow coated with candy. I still imagine a screen full of little candies when i think of the tv show "candid camera"

I used to believe…

up until fourth grade, i thought that "compliment" was another word for insult.
so whenever i would make a joke about someone, you could see them chasing me around with me screaming "it's not a compliment! it's not a compliment!"