speaking

When I was like 10 I read the word hibiscus and I thought it was pronounced hi-buck-shu-us and asked what it was and eventually my sister read what it really was and they still make fun of me now! :(

Katie Lyn

I used to beieve that "play it by ear" was play it by year.

Alex

When I was in 7th grade I remember reading something or other on organisms with our Life Science, and this Special Ed. girl had just moved into it, and right in the middle of a paragraph she said, 'Most orgasms can move." boy...Mrs.Collins looked suprised at that one!

SillySiggy

I used to believe that when people couldn't hear that they were "death" not deaf!

audnick

I thought Suitcases were Soupcases!

Anon

This one is not mine, it's my oldest daughter's... When she was about two, we were driving somewhere (I think I was taking her to the McDonald's for a treat), and she was very excited, and kept saying, "Look for it, Mommy, look hard...", to which I told her I was looking hard, and asked her if she was looking, and she said yes, but she didn't see the McDonald's. I told her that we would see it soon, and told her, "Keep your eyes peeled, and you'll find it," to which she replied, "But Mommy, I DON'T WANT to peel my eyes! That would hurt reawwy bad!" I laughed so hard I nearly had to pull the car over.

Hannah's Mommy

I used to think loot bags were called loop bags.

Anon

I thought I invented the word yesterday

DW

I used to believe that if I spoke any sort of gibberish I'd actually be speaking some secret spell that would unleash bad things (monsters, plagues, death) upon the world.

Sarah

I thought "unrest" was the opposite of rest. And, since I hated resting, I thought it was a good thing.
I also thought "uneasy" meant "hard" or "difficult".

Anon

Stereotypically, I used to think that all Indians used the phrase 'oh my God' in just about every sentence.

Anon

I used to think remote control cars were actually called remo-contro cars. maybe because people were saying it too fast.

Anon

I used to believe that the phrase "next door" was pronounced "next store". I still say "store", even though I'm 15.

DarkDan

i thought that weed eaters were called we deeters

Anon

I used to believe that "thistles" was actually "fistles".

Cris

My neighbours little boy spent one very hot summer on the beach with his father- who every time a pretty girl went buy used to say "Get 'em off, get 'em off - show us what you've got". One winter evening there was a fluttering at the window and the boy asked his father what it was and the father replied that it was a moth looking for the light - the boy then asked "What - a getamoth?" - Out of the mouths of babes .....

Patricia

I used to think genre was pronounced "jen - er". Sometimes I still pronounce it that way by accident.

Jener

When we were at school one day in the 8th grade, one of my friends did one of the most funny moments i've seen.
the lesson was really boring untill my friend, REALLY entertained said. IT's CALLED ORGASM, what he though he said was Organisms. Kinda big misunderstanding. Our teacher were allmost lying on the floor laughing, we're still picking it on her!

laughing

When I was 4 a Sunday school teacher told me I had to "apologize" to another student for something, except I did not know what that word meant. I thought she said polish your eyes, and that it was slang for "you must now cry" or something. So I started crying and rubbing my eyes. She asked me what was wrong, and I said I didn't know what the word meant. She explained that it meant to say sorry, which I promptly did.

Mike

I used to think that if someone was "behind the times", that meant that they were dead. Ironically, I first heard the expression used in a song from a kid's show, and I became upset wondering why they would mention such a terrible thing in a song for little ones.

Anon