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For a while I thought that volcano was ballcano - which seemed feasible seeing as they chucked out great balls of fire.

Ju Ju

I used to see the signs for Antiques and thought it was pronounced ANTikews.I don't know at what age I finally made the connection between anTEEKes and Antiques. No wonder I went on to major in English in college! :-)

Sairey

Once in class i listened to a teacher with a wierd accent talking about "Coffee Sent Up". I could'nt make sense of what he was talking through that one hour. Later on i found out he saying "Coefficient of".

Dawood

One time, my mom said "Come put on your bathing suit." and i heard "come put on your baby suit." And i screamed "NO! I'M NOT A BABY!"

HannahBanana

I used to to mix up masturbation with Mastacation, so while at at a family dinner party I decided to show off my vocababulary and knowledge of a cows' digestive system. I sarted talking and said," ...Oh yes, did you know that after MASTURBATING its food teh food has to travel through 4 chambers...." Everybdy started laughing and my mum was mortified.

She wasnt too happy with me later when it sparked some interesting questions from my younger siblings later on...

Hayley

I used to call a barbeque a "bag-of-poo" up untill I was 10. Still makes me smile when I say it :)

Will

I heard this one from my friend recently. She has a five year old girl named Lola. Lola overheard my friend talking about her step daughter and how she had to go "away for awhile" because she had " a lot of issues". Lola promptly went upstairs where the stepdaughter was packing and when she was finished Lola told her not to forget to pack her issues.

anonymous

When I was around 12, instead of saying "condos," I'd say "condoms." It took months for my parents to correct me. They thought it was hilarious.

Sean

When I was in my seventh grade science class, I kept pronouncing the word organism as orgasm. I wondered why every time my teacher would correct me he would laugh at the same time. It wasn't until I got to high school that I realized what I was saying. LOL

Anonymous

When I was little, my friend used the word "oxymoron." When I asked her what it meant, she said it was a horrible insult. I went around calling people oxymorons for a couple of years until someone finally told me what it really means!

Maggie

Until I was probably thirteen, when my mom referred to the list she would give my dad to do on weekends as "A Honey-Do List", I always wondered what on earth honeydew melons had to do with it!

Rachel

When my third child was about 2 years old, she was having a fit in the car because she was hungry. I told her to wait, that when we got home I would give her somthing to "Tide her over", meaning to stave off her hunger til dinner-time. Silence. A moment later, she let out a wail of such grief and fear, and she began to sob hysterically. "What's the matter, honey?" I asked, quite concerned. Between sobs, I discovered she was afraid I was going to tie her up, and so she pleaded with me...."Please, mommy, don't tie me over, please don't tie me over!"

Jewel Atkins

One morning when i was little i made my mum a bowl of grapes for breakfast. I told her i was "doing her a flavour". Once my parents had finally stopped laughing they explained the word was "favour".

Simon

I used to think Wong Ming Chuen (a Hong Kong celebrity) is called Orange because of there pronounciations are similar

Jerry

When I was three or so, I thought "volley ball" was pronounced 'bally-ball'....cracked everyone up.

Brooke

There was a kid at nursery called Ashley and he must have hated me because I kept telling him he was saying it wrong, and that he was called "Actually!"

Ruth

I had a teacher in primary school called Mr. Hampson, but I thought he was called Mr. Hamster - I even wrote it on the front of my books!

Ruth

I used to think that a cadaver was a type of knife. Maybe that was because of its similarity in sound to the last two syllables of "dagger".

Kimberley

When my sister was little, she pronounced candelabra as candle-bra.

Emily Ruth

god assigned each person a certian amount of words once thier words ran out you died

alyssa