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I thought when someone was described as being "mild-mannered" it meant they didn't have very good manners
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"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".
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.
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."
i used to think that the word 'clothes' was the plural for 'clo.' so i'd call a sock or a shirt a clo.
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I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff
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I used to believe that "bed-raggled" was a word especially meant for how you looked when you woke up each morning.
I used to think that 'approximately' meant exactly, so, for example, I would describe something as 'approximately 3.2cm' with a clear emphasis on the first syllable to enhance the exactness. This went on into my early twenties I think...
When I was a wee lad me Mum told me that if I called my sister or anyone a "fool" that I would burn in Hell! For years whenever I heard someone call someone else a "fool" I would think "OOooo you're going to burn in Hell"!
i used to believe that random people would win a pulit-surprize.
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that the word "horny" was a joke. I played scrabble on the computer when I was about seven years old, when the computer used that word. When I asked my mom what it meant, she told me it was a joke by the creators of the game. I believed that for five years.
I lived in California and believed that every U.S. state had its own language. I was confused when I met some people from Colorado and could comprehend their speech.
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I thought 'infrared' was the past of 'to infrare'.
During one of our family conversations, the subject of gulibility not being in the dictionary came up. My little sister piped up "It's really not in the dictionary, my friend told me".
Oh how we laughed..
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I used to believe that I actually invented the word "excellent".
I thought common as muck was a substance called commoners muck
O.K. you smugs,........OOPS that was really O.K. you's mugs
when reciting the alphabet, i used to think that "elemeno" was a letter: L-M-N-O
I used to think there was a verb to misle. "He misled me"
When I was little I used to think a suitcase was called a "soupcase". I called it this for many years before I figured it out and no one noticed.
I used to believe that everyone else talked a different language when I wasn't around, and that I was adopted after being found in the garden. I used to believe this because my big sister told me so. Im now bigger than her.