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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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When i was younger, i had alot of trouble pronouncing the word vagina, i used to think it was Jemima!!! My grandmother who was working for clinpath at the time thought it was hilarious and told all the staff at her work!! They thought it was gold and the vagina swabs were renamed in my honour to jemima swabs!!! i must have been a pretty confused kid watching playschool though!!
When I was younger I thought that "exceptional" and "acceptable" meant the same thing, so when I was young and I tried really hard and the teacher whose class I got an A in their class (yes, I was young) said I was an "exceptional" student I was thinking he menat acceptable and wondered why getting an A was only acceptable and how much you'd have to do to get this teacher's respect.
When I was little, I liked to ask lots of questions. And sometimes I would ask my parents. And they would reply(since I am sure they were tired of hearing my questions) go look it up in your *funkin wagnal* I had no idea that meant dictionary. I always thought they were cussing at me.
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I used to believe that "nuptial" was a naughty word. I thought it meant nipple. XD
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It took me FOREVER to realize that "Vewers like you" meamt veiwers, like me. I thougt it was giibeish
When MSN and AIM first got really popular, everyone said LOL when they laughed. I thought LOL meant hello, so I went around saying LOL whenever I see someone. That continued for half a year until my friend told me I was weird.
I really used to believe that languages had barriers,physical barriers and you were prevented from crossing from one language to the other unless you had some kind of a permit or visa
I used to believe the word original meant basically the opposite of what it really means i.e something old and familiar. I think I thought this because I knew the original version of something meant the first so I thought if something was original it was similar to the first version
When they had us sing "America the Beautiful" in school, I thought the words were,
"In the Donzer Lee-light."
Instead of "In the dawns early light"
I discovered that I was wrong when I read one of the Ramona books by Beverley Cleary, in which Ramona makes the same mistake.
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My brother thought that if men were perverts, women must be pervettes. My sister and I were accused of this often.
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When I was 7 years old, I was POSITIVE that the word "determine" was correctly pronounced DEETER-mine, and that everyone else just had it wrong!
When I was little we used to take trips to Cape Cod. I was just learning how to read at the time, and I would see the word and not realize that the "e" was silent, so to me, it was "Cape-a Cod." The worst part was that it took my parents about 2 years to notice that I wasn't saying the name right. When they corrected me, I was in shock! It altered my sense of reality.
When I asked my father the meaning of the word "peon," he said it was something that you would "pee on." Like an idiot, I not only believed this well into my teens, but was only corrected after I announced it to my whole physics class.
when i young my sisters thought it would be funny to teach me my own language, they suceeded in this and by the time i was old enough to go to school i spoke in gibberish and had 2years of speech therapy, i believed this was normal.........
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.
When I asked for something or acted like i was the best when I was younger my dad would say "who do you think you are. the queen of sheeba?!?!" for some reason,no idea how, i always thought the queen of sheeba was a small white poodle that sat on a velvet cushion, and that she had servants. I thought this for a very long time,oh dear.
I attended a Catholic school as a young kid, where we were made to attend weekly mass each Tuesday. The priest was a nice Vietnamese man, but whenever he would say "Jesus Christ", I always thought he was saying "Cheetah Cry". Mentioning this years later to an old school buddy, he admitted that he had thought the same thing!
These still trip me up sometimes:
Pizza Hot = Pizza Hut
Holland Oats = Hal and Oats
Entire State Building= Empire State Building
Crackle Barrel = Cracker Barrel
I used to think that when someone(usually my dad), was saying "Pardon me", they were saying "Part me" because they said it fast and I didn't find out until I was 12.
"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".