speaking

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"!

Lee Roi

i used to believe that random people would win a pulit-surprize.

timmy

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.

Peter

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.

John

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..

Fido Dido

I thought common as muck was a substance called commoners muck

oddsox

O.K. you smugs,........OOPS that was really O.K. you's mugs

oddsox

when reciting the alphabet, i used to think that "elemeno" was a letter: L-M-N-O

davey

I used to think there was a verb to misle. "He misled me"

david

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.

John

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.

Tom

My mum told my and my twin brother Weasal, that she could not read our comics to us, as she couldn't read the speech bubbles.
I went years think my poor mother had some rare form of dyslexia, when she just couldn't to bother to do the voices!

Jaki Jordan

As a child I confused both my parents by asking what Bee Car Bon It Tee was?
Now I am older I know it as Bicarbonate.

Nick

I used to think that teenagers had really interesting conversations.

Nathan

I used to believe that I could talk when everyone around me knew that I was making no sense. Mark would look at the box of cornflakes on the kitchen table and point to a letter. "A" said Mark. Mum would say "Very good Mark," or nod approvingly. Then I would point at a letter and say "Yab" or "Boo" or any other sound that I could think up.

I think I got a lot of encouragement so I really did believe I was talking even though I didn't have a clue what I was saying. This extended from letters into words and sentences and I'd burble on for hours "talking" to everyone who happened to be around regardless of whether they listened. One day dad turned around and said "oh look Nico's talking!"

My parents can't remember my first word, or rather my first real word, my speech just evolved slowly into English.

Nico