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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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i used to think "learning" meant stirring in empty pots and pans with other metallic objects; no idea why. i guess that's what the word "lernen" sounded like to me.
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When I was a kid, isntead of "bra" i used to say "Boobytucker" and instead of "hamburger" i used to say "hangaburger" :)
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I used to think that "Rape" and "Cape" were somehow one and the same.
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When I was younger, I thought that Babylon was pronounced "Baby - lon".
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! :(
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I used to beieve that "play it by ear" was play it by year.
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!
I used to believe that when people couldn't hear that they were "death" not deaf!
I thought Suitcases were Soupcases!
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.
I used to think loot bags were called loop bags.
I thought I invented the word yesterday
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.
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".
Stereotypically, I used to think that all Indians used the phrase 'oh my God' in just about every sentence.
I used to think remote control cars were actually called remo-contro cars. maybe because people were saying it too fast.
I used to believe that the phrase "next door" was pronounced "next store". I still say "store", even though I'm 15.
i thought that weed eaters were called we deeters
I used to believe that "thistles" was actually "fistles".
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 .....