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I used to think the word "sane" was slang for "insane" so if one of my friends was bouncing off the walls, I'd tell them, "You're going 'sane!"

Anon to the nymous

i didn't know the difference between the words "deaf" and "death", so i used them interchangably.

Harold

When I was in grdae 2, we were learning geograohy and I was asked by the teacher to read 'Niger' I had never heard of this country and thought it was pronounced with a hard G. It came out as "Nigger." A black kid in the class got so mad and accuse of being racist. Even the teacher could hardly believ I didn't know I was saying something wrong!!! I was totally hurt.

Soo

i used to think that when british people spoke english with accents they knew that they talked with accents. when i found out that from their point of view Americans have accents it blew my frickin mind'... and i was in 6th grade when that happened.

Anon

When I was a child, I was very picky about the fabric and fit of my socks, and until I was about 8 or 9, I had somehow gotten the idea that "edible" meant "accpetable" I still have a vivid memory of my parents laughing hysterically at my announcement that I didn't have "any edible socks!"

Lisa

when i was little around 6-7 years old, i used to read alot. but 2 words i distinctly remember messing up were Foreign( i used to think it was pronounced Foureean) and Hoax(which i thought was pronounced Ho-Axe)

Anon

When I Was a little kid, 3 or 4, I thought whenever I asked my mom somethinglike, "do you mind if I have ice cream?" a she said, "Yes I do mind", it meant Yes, you can have some ice cream. That's why I was surprised when she took the bowl of ice cream away from me!

Tory

My mother always used to talk about "making ends meet" as a child. I always though she was referring to hamburgers and meatloaf.

Shauna

When I was two or three, I heard the term "human beings" and was convinced we were all "human beans". I didn't really understand how humans could be associated with beans, because green beans and lima beans don't look anything like humans.

lillie

When I was about 5 or 6, I would always wear bike shorts when I wore skirts, because I get paranoid about things pretty easily. Well, I also liked to use big words (to which I rarely knew the definition of) to make me sound smart. I'd recently heard the word 'obsessed,' but didn't know what it meant. One night, my babysitter came over. She noted the biker shorts I had on, to which I replied "Well, I'm obsessed with people seeing my underwear." She just sat there and stared...

Emma

I used to believe that fire drills were real drills and there were also drills for grapes or monkeys and even mutant mole people.Boy was I dumb!

Lady Confunded

In 2nd grade i thought that "She's smrter than she looks" was a compliment. I learned I was wrong when I said that to my teacher.

Anon

I had heard the phrase "the thrill of the hunt" for quite sometime, thinking each time I was hearing "Attila the Hun". People were saying for example, what someone did for "the thrill of the hunt". I wondered why someone was doing the thing in question for Attila the Hun. In time I finally figured out the phrase "the thrill of the hunt".

Ron

My mother used to say we could buy a new house or car when her ship came in.
I believed that it was out at sea crossing the ocean. I am still waiting.

Anon

As I child, I somehow got the idea that "bellow" meant manure. I began to find out otherwise when one time I baffled some people by saying, "Oops, I stepped in some cow bellow!"

Julie

When I was about 7 the movie "Titanic" came out. My parents took me to go see and there's a scence where Leonardo DiCaprio is describing an encounter he had with a one-legged prostitue. Naive me didn't know what a prostitute was and just assumed it was a pretty lady. Later that day my parents and I were leaving from a diner and I said very loudly "Look mommy! I'm a one-legged prostitute!" as I hopped around on one leg. I thought I was being very clever so I said this quite loudly so everyone in the diner heard. My parents quickly told me to be quiet as they rushed me out of the diner.

Diana Stephens

My niece believed that if you touched a cactus plant, you would get “porked” and proceeded to tell me so loudly on a city bus. It was very difficult to explain to her that the correct word was “pricked” while everyone on the bus was howling with laughter.

Mojo!

When i was little i used to think the word "Under" was "Behunder" so my mom would ask "Nick, where are my keys" and i would say "Behunder the couch mommy"

Nick

I thought "spam" and "sperm" were the same thing. What confused me most was that it was sold in tins at the grocery store and that you could recieve it over the internet.

Marshmello Da Strawberry Cow