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I used to believe that no one really spoke with an American accent, and that it was just something they put on for TV.

Anon

I didn't know that "people" was plural for "person," and I actually thought it meant grown-ups. (Possibly because we would always be in big groups of people who are mostly adults)

Anon

I use to think "Pardon me" was French for please excuse my Eiffel tower. makes no sense it just sounded french and that was all I knew about France the Eiffel tower

Brigit

When I was younger, I thought that some how the Spanish people could speak German, and vice versa, for some weird reason.

Sunshine

i used to think Greenwich Mean Time (GMT, uk) was "Village Green Time" and when i asked why, i was told it was because back in the day there was only one sun dial in the town and people would all go by it.

Village Idiot

When I was young, I remember hearing my dad say that a co-worker of his was fired. Not knowing the meaning of 'fired' at the time, I pictured his co-worker being attacked a literal wall of fire.

Madeline

"Better than sliced bread"

I used to believe 'Sliced Bread' was a musical band.

Madeline

I thought that Saturday was actually "Sadderday" because it was some how sadder than the other days of the week!

Freaky Beaky

I used to believe the show Law and Order was a gardening show called Lawn and Order.

Adriana

I used to believe the "Lawn and Garden" section in Wal Mart was my uncle's. Lonnie Garden? Makes sense...right? :) To this day I always think about uncle Lonnie everytime the intercom comes on at Wal Mart :) lol

Anon

I used to think the saying "take something for granted" was "take something for granite" and figured it was because granite isn't very valuable so if you take something for granite you don't think its very valuable

Granitegrin

when I was really young, about 3 years old, I just learned to burp the alphabet. My dad tried to scare me by telling me that if i kept on burping the alphabet as often as i did, my normal voice would disappear and change in to the sound you make while burping. i found that really cool and every day i spent hours burping, just to achieve that voice, quite disappointed was I, when I realised it didn't happen

Double Dutch Nathalie

i used to believe that when you accidentally/ unconsciously say something bad, then knock on wood three times.... it wouldn't come true. :D

elmo

I thought the word hallucinate was actually "hellucinate" because it was hellish. At one point I asked my mom and she said "no it's hallucinate because when you do it you see Hal!" and I believed this for a long time

Helllowerer

I used to think the word "eavesdrop" was "ease drop," as in, you could overhear what people were saying because it was easy.

Jay