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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

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

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

I used to think that "facade" was pronounced "fuckade" (I accidentally said it that way while giving a presentation in 4th grade - oops!) and I also thought "pisces" was pronounced "pisses".

Kitten

In grade 7, we were having a science test on organisms. When we were finished, we were talking about the answers that we put for some of the questions. And since it was a big group of people, I was talking rather loud when I said "for number 38, I put living orgasms!"

And why is it that there's a 90% chance that a teacher would be near to hear that?

Very embarrassing.

my name!

Till I was 13, I used to think that "lust" meant hatred. Think about it...love and lust. They should mean the opposite, otherwise it's too confusing!

I'm Stupid, I know

My mother always has a habit of speaking too quickly, and running words together. Until I reached high school I was convinced that the phrase 'I might add' was actually, 'on my dad', and was puzzled why anyone would say such a thing.

Steve

My mother used to tell me that were only bale to say a million words in our lives. From the age of six, till i was around eight or so i kept a ver strict check on exactly how many words i had used, to the point where i even had a diary with ticks in for each word i had used....

Darren

When I was a child, I used to believe that at the end of game shows, they were giving the losing guest "partying gifts." I recently made a comment on this to my husband, and he informed me that the losers did not get "partying gifts", but rather parting gifts

angie

When I was two or three, I heard the term "human beings" and was convinced we were all "human beans". I didn't really understand how humans could be associated with beans, because green beans and lima beans don't look anything like humans.

lillie

My mother always used to talk about "making ends meet" as a child. I always though she was referring to hamburgers and meatloaf.

Shauna

Nephew aged 6 was crazy about westerns but always called cavalry, "cattle-ry". Well, I suppose the other blokes on horses were called "Cowboys" - so, logical? He was so persistent that the whole family now says the same, thirty years later!

Swanny

Since the words of the English language obviously needed to have been created at some point in time, I believed that the responsibility of coming up with all of the words rested upon the shoulders of one man. He thought up all of the words after sundown, with a group of his friends helping him along. They sat in his backyard while he played the banjo, and pointed at objects and then decided what to name them.

Amy

When my best friend's brother was around 7 or 8, he drove their whole family crazy with his endless chitter chater about anything and everything, so they him that he only had a certain amount of words he could use in his lifetime and if he went over that limit he'd never be able to speak again. Just imagine the stillness that ensued after this episode.

Oops!

That is was a "standing obation" not "ovation"

Robin

I used to believe that as a Canadian, I spoke English without an accent; that Canadians and most Americans simply did not have an accent and that British, Australians and everyone else had an accent.

Along with this I also believed this lack of an accent made it so that only Canadians and Americans could pretend to have an accent.

Sarah

I used to believe that an oncologist was an "on-call-ogist"

Anon

When my sister was about 9 or 10 she used to pronounce "chaos" like "chows"

Anon

At the age of about 4-6, I thought a supermodel was someone who made clothes.

Walker

When I was a kid, I somehow got it into my head that a “scone” was a type of a fish, a shellfish . . . some type of fish. How I got this into my head? . . . I don’t know. Maybe I got scone crossed up with schooner and transposed fishing or the sea with it. It could have been from me looking in my mother’s cookbook while she baked and seeing it grouped amongst other topics - Scallop, Scampi, Scones, Seafood - in their order. I don’t know!

Anyway, I believed it as FACT. And it never got challenged - for whatever reason, it just never came up in conversation. If I had heard it said in a sentence spoken during the course of time, fish may have worked in place of scone in my head, so it never got challenged that way, either. It wasn’t till an episode of ‘Friends’ was on TV, one night some years ago, they were talking about scones and I said something about a scone being a fish and my wife looked at me and said, “WHAT?”. I argued with her that a scone wasn’t some sort of pastry bread, roll thing - IT’S A FISH!

Obviously, I was wrong - but I wouldn’t give in until we got out the dictionary and I saw the proof opposing my error. My face was RED! But you know, I still tried to justify why I thought a scone was a fish - much like I did here! And I’ll go one step further and admit that there’s some weird part of me that still wants to believe a scone is a fish!

Wind Farm Horse