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i used to believe the proverbial "straw that broke the camels back" was a drinking straw. sadly, i was 23.

jennie kay

My best friend's mum is called Anne, and when I was small I used to call her Antique Anne. I didn't know what antique meant - but she wasn't very happy because she thought I was that she was very old!

lu

When I was young, I thought that the word "utter", when spoken, was acutally "udder." So, I was often confused when adults would say phrases such as "an utter embrassment." I always wondered why a cow's udder would be embarrassed....

anon

when i was younger, instead of saying 'ladies and gentlemen', i used to say 'ladies and jelleyments'

sausage

When I was little, I had this poor habit of repeating every angry thing that I heard on TV because I thought it would make me sound cool. For example: "Mommy, what the hell is that?" "Oh, I didn't wanna come to this stupid place anyway." "Everybody SHUT UP!!!!!" "Will ya knock it off already?" Oh yeah, I heard a lot of this stuff from my dad too (not bad language really, but a lot of the above). My parents would slap me up and down for saying it, and of course never tell me why it was wrong.

Michelle

When I was little, I still mixed up my words.

One day, I walked up to someone and said, "Hello! I'm a terrorist!" ...I meant "tourist"! OH I was wrong!!! lol

Rebecca Sears

You know how you call someone stupid a squirrel? well I was about 2 or 3 and i was in the backseat of our car while we were driving down the road. i dont know what happened, but my dad said to my mom, "I can't believe they let that squirrel drive!" (a person who couldnt drive well) and my mom has told me that i said "mommy! i want to see the squirrel driving a car!"

blondie

i believed that when i was playing hide-n-seek everyone said ollie ollie oxen free. i just found out they were saying all the others in free.

CaThEriNe

When I'd first get home from work, I'd bring in the mail and seem if there was a letter fromauntsusan. My daughter picked this up and began to call my sister Mant Susan

Anon

for some reason, when i was little, i thought "wealthy" meant "poor".

parachute

I really believed that a brothel was where you got broth.I heard my aunt talking about "that brothel they call a cafe" once, and whenever I went there, there were always old men sitting around with bowls of home made broth.

Libra Lady

i used to think stigmata meant the really clear, white sunbeams that you could see reaching down to the earth.

lora

When I was young I had mixed up many words e.g. cinnamon and cyanide and when in the kindergarten I get some dish with cinnamon I thought it's poisonous. I told to everyone who sat around me, they can't eat this, otherwise they'll die. Nobody wanted to eat, we were sitting so frightened.

Ania

When I was young, my mother would say "May I speak to..." when she made a phone call. I thought she was saying "Mass peak to..." So, when I got old enough to call my friends, I would say,"Mass peak to Jill?" or whoever it was that I called.

Lauren P