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We were playing table tennis and my friend didn't know what gay (fagget) means...so while we were outdors and there were some bats flying around we told him fagget=bat...well he kind of liked the new word he learned and started telling us how many faggets there are around his house all the time and then he started flapping his hands aroud and screaming that he is fagget too...i needn't say we almost pissed ourselves laughing (no offense to gay community meant)

Strudl

My daughter and I had a long discussion about the plain frock like gown thjat girls and working ladies used to wear. I never got her to accept that it wasn't called a pininform. A few weeks ago she had to admit that I was right. Then she came out with a good one, that "Bonanza" is in fact called Bonzana. mmmmmmm

Adam

when i was 4 i thought id run out of words after id told a joke to all my friends and family. i had nothin else to say... and thats all i have to say about that.

cat

I was maybe, twelve, and was a bit confused at the disticntion between the words "discreet" and "secrete". I made a speech about spies or something like that for a "What You Want to Be When You Grow Up" type project. NOBODY EVER TOLD ME. It took me until I was fifteen to realize that spies do not ooze everywhere.

Xornia

When my big sister was a junior high school cheerleader, I would hear her practice a cheer that said:

Send them to their doom-doom-doom-doom-doom-doom!
Boob-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom!

I was unfamiliar with the word "doom" at the time, so the nearest word I could hear was "dune". I really wondered why the cheer was calling for sending someone to a sand dune.

Kimberley

I used to think that a cadaver was a type of knife. Maybe that was because of its similarity in sound to the last two syllables of "dagger".

Kimberley

I used to have the idea that scrimshaw was a card game.

Heather

When I was in 2nd grade, my teacher would make the class share news stories that we had read in the paper. We'd have to make a speech presentation about it. When we'd do it, it was time to share our "Current Events." When she explained what we had to do, I always heard "current events" as all one word strung together. When it was my turn to share, I designed a poster board with a title that read, "My Curnavent."

Angel

My sister is older than me and when she got to a certain age, she did not have to wear knee socks any more, but instead got to wear leotards. Since her name was Leah, and my name is Holly, I thought that when I grew up I would get to wear holly-tards.

kcdawg

I used to believe that the definition of "party pooper" was "a person who poops a party." I guess that was because "party pooper" has the word "poop" in it. But now, I know that being a party pooper has absolutely nothing to do with pooping.

Joey Schwartzman

For the longest time I thought the phrase "Dog eat dog world" was actually "Doggy dog world" and this made me happy because I liked dogs.

Xornia

I used to believe that all four-letter words are bad words.

Anon

When I was about seven, I used to get the words "Wesleyan" and "lesbian" confused (I already knew what a lesbian was, because I have a gay uncle). Anyway, I heard people talking about a Wesleyan church, but I was thinking lesbian. I was quite shocked, as I knew God didn't approve of gays or lesbians.

Anon

I used to think that there was such a thing as baa lambs,I only found out they were sheep when I was publicly humiliated by the teacher aged 8.My second astonishingly wrong belief was that we had neck curtains at our windows, not net curtains. This belief was only corrected when I was about 12. That there was such a thing as Ringing Carnation, I later discovered the word was actually Reincarnation! Parent's who'd have them?

Phyllippa

我小時後以為全世界都是說中文

EUNICE WEI

Till I was 13, I used to think that "lust" meant hatred. Think about it...love and lust. They should mean the opposite, otherwise it's too confusing!

I'm Stupid, I know

when someone would sneeze I would say "blush you" instead of "bless you".. to this day i still have a problem saying "bless you"

Anon

When I was younger, I thought that Babylon was pronounced "Baby - lon".

Anon

When I was about 9 or 10 I used to confuse the meanings of "sensitive" and "sensible", so once I was like to a friend "You're very sensible" when actually I meant sensitive, and her brother(6 yrs older than us) was like "No she's not!" and that's when I got to know the real meanings!

Sensibly Sensitive