places

i would always confuse canada with canberra (an australian city) and poland with portugal

Anon

As a child, I once had a conversation with a friend of mine who told me that he and his family were moving to LA. I nodded and pretended to know what he was talking about. It wasn't until years later that I came to realize that LA and Los Angeles were the same thing. I used to think LA was spelled Ellay, a different city and not an acronym for Los Angeles.

Paulie

i used to think arkansas was pronounced 'ar-kansas'.....just like the state kansas but having the 'ar-' infront of it...

casey malcolm

My grandparents on both sides came to Australia with their families from Britain in the 1920s, as did many of their friends and, like many Australians, still referred to Britain as "home". This was very confusing to me as a child, trying to imagine a house so huge as to have so many people in it. Then one day I saw a picture of Buckingham Palace - ah! - that explained it! I had a rather grandiose idea of my family origins for years afterwards.

Swanny

My father, trying to explain maps to me, aged six, showed me Australia and said,"That's where we live". It didn't look much like our house, but adults have funny ways of representing things. But I thought I had it all worked out, and triumphantly said, "And that's where Leonie lives!", pointing to New Guinea, just to the north (Leonie was my friend who lived across the road). Dad patiently explained that it was New Guinea, but I knew that we had lived in New Guinea when I was smaller, and that I had never lived in Leonie's house, so put the whole conversation down to overactive adult imagination.

Swanny

I used to think that Hawaii and Alaska were floating around where Mexico is because thats what is on all the maps.

UsedToBeDumb

I believed this for a long time (longer than I'd care to admit!): I knew that midgets were referred to as "little people" and for years I thought that Reno was a big city of little people because it is known as "the biggest little city on earth".

Tif

i also used 2 think that on maps of the world etc if i sqinted really, really hard i could see my street, my house-everything!
so i tried it one day. i was bitterly dissapointed when i cuoldent see my house.
i decided i needed glasses so i pinched my sisters
:(

bex

I used to belive that New York City was in California untill I was About 10 when I asked my mom where New York City was and she told me it was in New York after that I felt Realy Dumb

Alex

i used to believe (until a day ago) that amsterdam was a country...
and that banga university is in india

hdavis

I used to believe "King of Prussia" was read "King of Prices" due to the fact that I could not read very well.

Anon

My sister told me once that when the new years eve ball dropped in NYC, that it actually dropped and broke opena nd that little totsie rolls flew out and all the people ran to get them. It was only when I was fianally old enough to stay up and see the ball drop, and i sw that they were lowering it slowly, and then when it got to the bottom, no tootsie rolls came out, i started crying.

Sarah

I grew up in southern North Carolina, about as close as one can get in North Carolina to the towns of Camden and Florence in South Carolina. Long before I'd ever been to Camden or Florence or places in between, I had recurrent dreams about traveling from Camden to Florence and in my deams, the route between the two always passed among large mountains. By the time I actually travelled from Camden to Florence, I had learned enough to not really expect substantial mountains, but still I was somewhat disappointed at how totally flat that area turned out to be. Since then, I've learned to take some solace in the fact that somewhere north of there, between the route from Camden to Florence and the North Carolina line, there are some interesting rocky areas, hills, and even a small "mountain", including Forty Acre Rock, the Sandhills, and Sugarloaf Mountain.

Wayne

When I was little, my friends and I would make the expedition to "dig to China" atleast twice a year. It was not until my pre-teen years(or maybe older) that I made the Geographical connection that China was on the otherside of the planet. Did you know that? Anyways, my understanding of China was a place deep, deep, deep under the ground that contained treasures and mainly...."china"....you know the kind your grandmother has on her wall that is taken down for special dinners. I really believed that I was going to be the one to find it.

John-Paul Venuto

i used to believe that the mainland(i lived on the isle of wight) was all made of concrete and there were no trees or grass there but lots and lots of cars and people.

miranda

Until I was seven I lived in Amsterdam, and any time we traveled out of the city, I used to believe we were going to the Netherlands, not knowing that Amsterdam was actually in the Netherlands. It's our national capital, actually.

Sietse Logger

When my sister was in college (I was a great deal younger), she talked frequently of wanting to go to Nassau. I later learned that the place she meant was the capital of the Bahamas, a city I was then unfamiliar with. At the time, I thought she was saying "NASA", meaning she wished to visit the space flight center in Houston. Since she took far less interest in space flight than I did, I wondered why she seemed so keen on visiting the space flight center.

Bobby boy

I used to believe that Miami Beach was up on a mountaintop. When we were kids, taking our annual summer vacation in Florida, we'd fly. It made sense that going through the clouds meant it was way up there, indeed.

Maria

I used to believe that names of places, such as towns and counties, were actually printed on the groud (Such as in fields), as they are on road atlases and maps.

I remember going down to London one day and when we got close on the motorway i was looking in the fields for

'LONDON'

to be printed out in them with big black letters.

but i never did see it :-( lol

RobbieMc

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