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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 about 10 I first came across this work "fuck" and had no idea what it meant, just that it had something to do with love. So, when we were doing a story in class in which a boy and girl meet, I told my friends afterwards, "I bet they'll fuck."...meaning, "I bet they'll fall in love and marry."
For forty years my family has reminded me about Christmas when I was five years old. A relative who traveled extensively brought blue jeans from Paris as a gift for me. I tried them on, and the family quickly made a big deal of my 'spiffy European pants'. I soon announced to the family that I was wearing my "new spiffy I'm-a-peeing pants".
I used to think "understood" meant you didn't understand, because "under" means down. My mom would scold me and say, "Am I understood?" and I'd sheepishly reply "no", which got me 5 minutes in the corner every time for being a "smartmouth". One day, I heard someone use "understand" and "understood" in the same sentence, and it clicked.
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i used to believe that when people said "pardon me" that they were actually saying "part of me". i could never figure out what that was supposed to mean.
I used to believe the word(s?) 'make-believe' was supposed to be 'maple leaf'. I always said 'I watched my favorite cartoon today. But its just a maple leaf story'.
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I used to believe that the name Sean was pronounced "seen". I also used to believe that the name Esther was pronounced "es-thurr".
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I thought for years that women carried "pock-a-books"... oops :-)
When I was in 6th grade, we were learning about organisms in science class. I asked my brother, who was 2 years older then me, if orgasm was plural for organism. He chuckled and told me to ask our mom. I did, and boy was I mortified when she started telling me what an orgasm was!! (And mad at my brother for knowing the answer and just wanting to see me squirm in front of mom!!)
As a child I did a great impersonation of Mae West saying "come up and see me sometime!" with the hip wiggle and all. My parents told me I should bat my eyes when I did it too. I got into charecter, wiggled my hips, said the phrase, removed my glasses and began hitting myself in the eyes.
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I use to think the Taj Mahal in India was actually the Tajma Hall, a place to have meetings. I though this until I was probably 15.
I had a German boyfriend whose sister used to pronounce "W" as "v" and "v" as "w". They lived in West Vancouver and she'd always say "Vest Wan". It surprised me that she didn't pronouce Volkswagen as "Wolksvagen".
When I was in 3rd grade I heard a girl run up to the teacher and said "Robert has a crush on Alisha!" So, I thought that Robert was literally crushing Alisha by sitting on her or laying on her. I was quite mad to think that he was "crushing" her!
I don't remember how it started, but my sister once told me to "Carpe Denim" believing it was "Carpe Diem". I still tell her to "seize the jeans" and we get a big kick out of it.
I used to believe that "prosecuted" and "executed" were the same word, and that shoplifting laws ("shoplifters will be prosecuted!") were rather draconian.
my parents for some reason told my sister and i that toushee was a name for a girls private part. so one day at camp a counselor told a boy to shake his toushee. i was so confused! i later found out toushee was another name for butt!
When I was younger, I learnt 'big' words like "beurocrat" & "homicide". I wasn't exactly sure what these words meant, but I felt smart saying them and PRETENDING to know.
One day, I told someone that "democracy" and "suicide" meant the same thing.
Sounds pretty accurate to me...
As I child, I somehow got the idea that "bellow" meant manure. I began to find out otherwise when one time I baffled some people by saying, "Oops, I stepped in some cow bellow!"
I was a kid who loved to use big words. At 7 or 8, adults would be really impressed with the way I talked. However, most of my lingo came from just listening to people speak; my parents talking to one another, television, adults in public places conversing.
Well, I heard the word "thoroughly", but hadn't heard the word "thorough", so, for like, five years I thought the word was "thurral".
One Easter when I was about 13, after hours of searching for my prize egg, I had this conversation with my sister:
"But I've been really, really thurral!"
"You've been what?"
"You know, I've searched very thoroughly."
"Oh, you mean you've been thorough?"
"NO, I was thurral!"
She never let me live that one down.
When I was little, My mom and I were going somewhere in the car when all the sudden I started yelling "MILITARY, MILITARY, MILITARY!" When she did know what I was talking about, I said to her "The place with the little rocks were the people died." I thought a cemetary was actually a military when I was little.
I used to belive that the English language was made up by two men at the start of the world.Their was one tall and one short and that was why we had the same sounding word meaning different things (e.g. right and write) because they each wanted to call a different thing the same word so the tall one made the short one change the spelling!