reading

Until I was in 4th grade i thought choir was pronounced "chore"

Anon

When I was first learning how to read, those Johnson & Johnson Baby Shampoo commercials used to be on all the time. At the end of it where it says, "No more tears!" I used to read it and think it was "No more tears!" like the tear you get in a piece of paper.

Holly

As a young reader with limited travel
exposure, I read James Michener's, HAWAII without understanding Hawaiian pronunciation. I, therefore, thought the kings name Kamehameha was pronounced Kah Me Hah Me Hah
rather than Kuh May Uh May Uh as I later discovered. Then miraculously I became aware that I already knew his name.

Anon

idk y but i used to think that edgar allen poe was mr. poe from unfortunate events

me!!!

I used to think that "retired" and "retarded" meant the same thing. I once saw a bumpersticker on an old man's truck that had the word "retired" on it, and I remember feeling so sorry for that man. Jeez.

TxTetley

when i was just learning to read, whenever i passed a sign near my house on a gate that said "beware of the dog" i believed it to read "Bewarrel of the dog"

i is a gud writer

I was shocked upon finding out that "O.M.G" means oh my god not like how it sounds when you say all the words together..... ommmmmgah! LOL

Jasmin

when i was 7 i believed that if u fell down the stiars that u couldnt read books anymore. so one day i fell down the stiars and i tried 2 read a bood and thats when i found out that that wasnt true.....

Anon

since i was about eight or nine, whenever i'd look at the door entering the parking lot of my apartment, i read ELETRIC CAUTION DOOR( it was a circle shaped sticker that was glued onto that door, and it said those words in that exact order)
i didn't realize that it was CAUTION ELECTRIC DOOR, until my dad pointed that out

confuzed child

When I first started reading, I eventually came across names like Mr. Jones and Mrs. Smith and whatnot. But my little mind didn't fully understand the concept of abbreviations and thought Mr. was pronounced Mer and Mrs. was pronounced Mers.

N.

When I was in 6th grade, learning about "organisms", every time I read out loud to my class, I would switch the word "organism" with the word "orgasm". I always knew it had some kind of sexual meaning but I was never really certain what it meant, so I did it to make it awkward for my teacher and classmates.

:]

Anon

When I was in third grade, and I had my cousins visiting us, and my oldest cousin, who was 12, told me that The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien would be too hard for me to read.(I was a very good reader.)My retort was that I had read Harry Potter books. I thought if you had read Harry Potter, you could read anything. Amazingly, after my cousins were gone,I read The Hobbit.

Lane

I used to believe the letters were squiggles and each squiggle represented a word.

Anon

i used to believe that everything in books
was true & i still kind of wonder that
people bother writing books that aren't

graywyvern

I used to get "jaw" confused with "palm."

Anon

I used to think LMAO meant lama or lame with an o at the end.

Kaitlyn

When I was four and i had just Started school I was learning irish and i thought in irish everything ended in either a or ini (Exp. hata, gloviní)

and i thought every language was writen in english and but read differently

Aoife, Ireland

This one is actually my uncle. He lived with Granny and Granddad and my mother and aunt in a house next to a butcher's shop or something that had "hydra" written on the sign.
My uncle couldn't read back then and thought that the sign had his name on them.

Anon

When I was learning to read, I pronounced "fire" as "fury" and "crocodile" as "croco-DEE-lay".

Anon

i used to believe if i kick the books GOD will pick my eyes.

Anon