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I thought "please print" in magazine subscription forms meant you had to put your name with a printer instead of writing it without cursive!
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I knew the "Dr." was an abbreviation for "doctor," but I didn't know it was also an abbreviation for "drive." So whenever I saw a road sign that said "Dr." after a word, I thought it was "doctor."
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When my brother was learning to read he told my mom he wanted to go eat at a resteraunt because they served beaver eggs. When my mom looked at the sign advertising the resteraunt the word he was reading was "beverages"
Traci
When ever someone said ''read aloud'' I assumed aloud was the title of a book. Lol.
Delaney
So you know those signs in Steak n Shake that say Takhomasak (it's take home a sack)? My mother told me it was an Native American chief... and I believed her.
Delaney
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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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I thought there was a such thing as a writing stutter and people who had it would write things like "They went to the bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb-boat"
Nate
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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.
Nicole
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I thought the Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings books were written in the middle ages (I think maybe I got Middle Earth confused with middle ages)
Neverwinter Nate
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I used to belive that fairytales were real stories that had happened and that one day someone would write about my life and then I would become fairytale character...
Slushyyy
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When I was young and started learning how to read I read a sign at the mall next to an escalator that said "Adults must accompany children at all times when riding" and theres was a picture with an adult holding a child's hand, but as a child my imagination was very wild and I thought "adult" said alligator and the picture was and alligator too so I told my mom that I couldn't go down the escalator with her until I found an Alligator. Of course that belief didn't last long when she dragged me on the escalator and I found that nothing bad happened to me even with no alligator.
Amy
I remember how my mum would read me stories, and I would always assume they were true. once, though my brother told me a scary story, and I couldn't sleep, so my mum told me that not all stories are true. I called her a liar for telling me made up stories.
I thought that the women who drove the bookmobile actually wrote all of the books on the shelves.
Dan
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I thought the word debut was actually "day view" since it was the first time the thing saw the light of day. Even when I did read the word for the first time I thought it was pronounced "debbut" till someone corrected me
Alberto Richardson
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When I was little I used to get terribly frustrated at the open/closed signs at shops and restaurants. It was before I knew about contractions in grammar so I always read "Sorry we're closed" as "Sorry, we re-closed" (implying that they were currently closed and we had just missed them), and I read "Yes we're open" as "Yes, we re-open" (implying that they were closed at the moment, but intended to open again at some point in the future). So I though that shops with these signs were always closed, and I couldn't understand why they needed two different signs to say the same thing. It seemed so terribly inefficient!
i believed that at the end of any business deal made the person who was the deal maker would give the other guy a pair of new white socks. This is because when i first started to read properly and i tryed to read anything (the junk mail that came through the post) i kept misreading 'while stocks last' to 'white socks last' and to this day!! even putting that now i wanted to white socks last im 22.
kirsty
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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.
Meh.
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."
Dakota
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I used to think that pounds were called lubs since they are notated as lbs..
Katie
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I thought vegetarians couldn't read Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Aretia
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