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i believed that when i was playing hide-n-seek everyone said ollie ollie oxen free. i just found out they were saying all the others in free.

CaThEriNe

I used to believe that the definition of "party pooper" was "a person who poops a party." I guess that was because "party pooper" has the word "poop" in it. But now, I know that being a party pooper has absolutely nothing to do with pooping.

Joey Schwartzman

i used to believe that every1 in the world knew every single word and that we just hadnt heard them all yet, but that wen we did we instantly knew wat they meant..... It took a few missused words to discover that this wasnt quite true

overactive imagination

You know the movie 5th Element with Bruce Willis and Chris Rock? Theres a character thats all blue with tentacles and sings like its at an opera. When I first saw the movie, during the solo, I yelled out really loud, "Eew look at those testicles!!"

I still get teased for it.

JecNucz

When I was 10, I visited my aunt and uncle in the city for a week, they lived in a condominium. Back at home My mom and I were walking back home from Church and I told her "When I grow up I want to live in a condom!" My mom explained the correct word 'condo'. But she never did say why she blushed when I pronounced it wrong.

Shalindria

hahahah i am 15 years old, almost 16. my friend melanie is a little older than me, i believe she is 16.....she has always had the toughest time with words; not a really widespread vocabulary.

she calls me up the other day and tried to ask me for advice about something. and she said: "YOU KNOW, THIS WHOLE THING IS ASSINYING"

like ass-in-eye-ing. she got it mixed up with assinine. i guess she thought people were saying assinyin'. ahahaha

elle

When people said "Human Being" I used to think they were actually saying, "Human Bean" I believed this until I was about 7 or 8 years old.

Anon

Not really a belief , but a mispronuciation. When I was a freshman in High School I was asked to define an organism in my Biology class. I knew what it was but I called it an orgasm. Repeatedly. I couldn't understand why everyone was sniggering at my "correct" answer.

Anon

I used to believe that humans were "human-beans" instead of "human-beings"!

Jasmine

When I was about 4, I had "male" and "female" reversed in my head. Somehow it made sense to me that boys would have a little something extra attached ;).

XiuZan

I recall as a child hearing grown-ups speak of someone who was going to get a pinchin'. They seemed pleased about this. I silently wondered how anyone could be happy about receiving anything as painful as a 'pinchin'! Only later did I learn they spoke of a pension!

Wanda F.

My daughter and I had a long discussion about the plain frock like gown thjat girls and working ladies used to wear. I never got her to accept that it wasn't called a pininform. A few weeks ago she had to admit that I was right. Then she came out with a good one, that "Bonanza" is in fact called Bonzana. mmmmmmm

Adam

When I was in grdae 2, we were learning geograohy and I was asked by the teacher to read 'Niger' I had never heard of this country and thought it was pronounced with a hard G. It came out as "Nigger." A black kid in the class got so mad and accuse of being racist. Even the teacher could hardly believ I didn't know I was saying something wrong!!! I was totally hurt.

Soo

I used to believe that i could understand what my baby sisters and brothers could say.i went around translating for like two years.

XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxX

You know how 'a couple' usually means 2, and 'a few' is mopre then that? Well, when I was in first and second grade, i always got them confused, because 'few' sounded like 'two', and i used to argue with the other kids when they tried to tell me different...

Anon

I heard the phrase "sitting on your laurels" - I thought laurels was a polite term for buttocks.

Donna

I watched the Peanuts halloween TV special, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," every year when I was a kid. I got very confused when Linus kept saying that his pumpkin patch had nothing but sincerity "as far as the eye can see" because, besides not knowing what sincerity was, I always heard the last part as "asfarazee I can see." I always wondered what an asfarazee was and why it was so great that Linus could see it.

Mandi

"an" is short for "and"

Anon

My niece was so proud of my new puppy and announced that he was "very HAVE." When I asked her what seh meant by that she said "You know, he is BEing very HAVE." Apparently she thought have was a verb and you had to be doing it.

Auntie

I thought that the word "Union" was pronounced "Onion".

Once, me and my family were naming banks to pass the time. I said "First Onion Bank"...

My mom corrected me...

Anon