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I used to think the phrase "point of view" was actually "point of you." Since it sounds so similar, nobody noticed until I was about 12.

Anon

I thought it was "all of THE sudden" instead of "all of A sudden." I was like past high school when I found out and I still cannot stop saying it my way! I can't even write it--I use "suddenly" instead!

AllOfTheSudden

Because of my sister, I've always been keen on different disabilities that people have. One day at the store we ran into a friend of my mom's who was using a wheelchair. I asked my mom later what she had and I swear she said "voo-kee-oo cremalaptis." It was about a decade later that I realized she had said MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS.

Bad Listener

I used to believe that LMNOP in the alphabet song was "elemental p" and i didn't understand why it was "elemental" p and what elemental means

anon

Because of Beauty and the Beast, I thought that "provincial" meant "boring" because she sings, "I want much more than this provincial life!".

It also made me think "primeval" meant "prime evil", e.g really bad, because Belle uses that word to describe Gaston.

Anon

When I was little I used to believe that if you told a lie, your nose would grow in length.

Lluna

I used to think that the word pizzazz was something to do with pizza.

Anon

Until I was in my 20s, I thought the word "stuck" in the phrase "bleed like a stuck pig" meant stuck as in stuck inside something, and didn't get how it made any sense. Then one day I realized it meant stuck like stabbed or punctured, and I was like "oh, duh!"

Anon

I thought common as muck was a substance called commoners muck

oddsox

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

Ed

I used to get really mixed up between the words 'soldiers' and 'shoulders' to the extent that I had a fixation with the eppilettes on the shoulders of all of my Dad's friends. (My Dad was in the forces - so that didn't help really!)

Scott

I used to think "so-and-so" was a bad word. My mom would be talking to a friend and say something like, "That guy's a little so-and-so!" She would whisper it so I though "so-and-so" was a bad word. However, she was saying "so-and-so" instead of the bad word she really wanted to say.

Amy

A friend of mine used to think that when he was called an "Only Child" that people were calling him a "Lonely Child"

A mate of the Angel

I had a little brother who played soccer and watched a lot of sports movies. In the movies they gave people "pep talks". My brother, since the people were yelling in the movie, thought they were calling people "peptoks" and called me that all the time because he was mean and still is.

Anon

I once thought that I invented the word "buoy". At the time I hadn't learned to spell very much, so I would have been more likely to spell it "booey" or something like that. On my family's first trip to the beach since I came along, as we were nearing the shore, something possessed me to say, "We'll see booeys at the beach!" Maybe I had heard of buoys but forgotten, but something subconsciously prompted me to say that. But I thought at the time I was purely making it up. Once at the beach, I'd point to all sorts of unfamiliar objects, and ask, "Is that a booey?" At first my father would say "Yes" to my question for whatever I pointed to. For a while I supposed he was just going along with my game of making up the word. The first time I remember him saying "No," we were on a ferry ride, and I'd asked the question within the hearing of the ferry operator. In retrospect, I guess my father didn't want the ferry operator to hear him telling me something was a buoy that wasn't. Before the ferry ride was over I was having actual buoys pointed out to me. Gradually I learned to use the word only for real buoys. But for a long time I thought that perhaps they were never called "buoys" until I "invented" the word.

Greg

wen i was younger i used to belive that the word character was pronounced charaCHA and it used 2 drive my sister crazy!

Jacqui

Up until about 3 years ago i had always mistaken the expression: "Take it for granted" for "Take it for granite." As much as i tried to understand this, i could never comprehend why anyone would take anything for granite.

Zack

When my father was young, he would read adaptations of Greek myths. He thought that Persephone (purse-eph-oh-nee), the queen of the underworld, was pronounced "purse-eh-phone." He also thought that Penelope (pen-ell-oh-pee), the wife of Ulysses, was pronounced "Pen-ell-lope" (rhymes with "cantaloupe.") It actually took him a long time to adjust to the correct pronunciations.

Anon

When i was little, i thought that pig latin came from pigs. I was so frightned to eat bacon afterwords :S

Juber

My niece believed that if you touched a cactus plant, you would get “porked” and proceeded to tell me so loudly on a city bus. It was very difficult to explain to her that the correct word was “pricked” while everyone on the bus was howling with laughter.

Mojo!