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When growing up in New Orleans I remember my parents saying the "Surgeon Water Board"....I didn't realize until I was an adult and actually looked at a man whole cover that it was the Sewerage and Water Board....well they have the Surgeon General of the U.S. right?

Shaz

When I was little, I thought dump truck was pronounced dumb truck, better yet I thought tow truck was pronounced toad truck. Now I hate trucks.

ben

My parents used to say, "six of one, a half dozen of the other." They said it so fast that for many years I thought they were saying, "Sixty-one, a half dozen, or another."

Lee Coursey

When I was very young I believed that,like a record,everyone only had a fixed amount of verbal communication and would no longer be able to speak.Thats why Im typing this.

zip it or lose it

When I was in 6th grade, we were learning about organisms in science class. I asked my brother, who was 2 years older then me, if orgasm was plural for organism. He chuckled and told me to ask our mom. I did, and boy was I mortified when she started telling me what an orgasm was!! (And mad at my brother for knowing the answer and just wanting to see me squirm in front of mom!!)

Wendy

I used to get common phrases confused because I would only hear them not see them in written form. Examples: Vericose Veins, I thought they were Verycold Veins. I thought War and Peace was the name of the author (Warren Peace). I thought Off the beaten path was Off the beat and path.

Anon

I used to think remote control cars were actually called remo-contro cars. maybe because people were saying it too fast.

Anon

For me, the word "skeletons" has always been pronounced "skalingtons".

Jim

I used to take grammar a little to seriously in my fervour to learn of speech. Convinced of my brilliant intellect, and chuffed with being able to figure it out for myself, I often came out with comments like "That's a good you-dea", and "Open sesa-you"...

Gioval

When I was little, I was once told 'Behave!' (as all kids are from time to time) My response was: 'I'm having!' (have-ing)

Tad

I used to think people spoke word balloons like in comic books, and adults' word balloons were in cursive handwriting.

Amy

When I was little, I didn't really understand echoes. My back yard faced a mountain, so I could shout and a second or two later, I would hear the echo. I used to believe that there was another little boy out there shouting back at me. I would get mad because I used to think he was repeating everything I said just to get on my nerves. I would spend several minutes marching back and forth across my back yard arguing with myself...

LT

After being told by my parents or relatives to "behave," I would usually reply: "I am being have."

Ed

"I rode a whore through the countryside" EXCUSE ME???
Not a native english speaker, my boyfriend thought that the word "horse" was plural for "hor".

anne-claire

When I was little mt older sister kept talking about joining the Leif Garrett fan club, and I thought she said "van club", so I assumed that a star's "van club" was that star (Leif Garrett, Farrah Fawcett, etc.) driving around in a van to visit people that liked them.

Price

I used to believe that when people used the phrase "making ends meet" they were actually saying "making ends meat."

I thought that it meant that people were just making enough money to buy little scraps of meat or "ends meat."

Tom

i used to think that the word 'clothes' was the plural for 'clo.' so i'd call a sock or a shirt a clo.

jessimocha