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When people said "Human Being" I used to think they were actually saying, "Human Bean" I believed this until I was about 7 or 8 years old.

Anon

Not really a belief , but a mispronuciation. When I was a freshman in High School I was asked to define an organism in my Biology class. I knew what it was but I called it an orgasm. Repeatedly. I couldn't understand why everyone was sniggering at my "correct" answer.

Anon

I used to believe that humans were "human-beans" instead of "human-beings"!

Jasmine

When I was about 4, I had "male" and "female" reversed in my head. Somehow it made sense to me that boys would have a little something extra attached ;).

XiuZan

I recall as a child hearing grown-ups speak of someone who was going to get a pinchin'. They seemed pleased about this. I silently wondered how anyone could be happy about receiving anything as painful as a 'pinchin'! Only later did I learn they spoke of a pension!

Wanda F.

My daughter and I had a long discussion about the plain frock like gown thjat girls and working ladies used to wear. I never got her to accept that it wasn't called a pininform. A few weeks ago she had to admit that I was right. Then she came out with a good one, that "Bonanza" is in fact called Bonzana. mmmmmmm

Adam

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 believe that i could understand what my baby sisters and brothers could say.i went around translating for like two years.

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You know how 'a couple' usually means 2, and 'a few' is mopre then that? Well, when I was in first and second grade, i always got them confused, because 'few' sounded like 'two', and i used to argue with the other kids when they tried to tell me different...

Anon

I heard the phrase "sitting on your laurels" - I thought laurels was a polite term for buttocks.

Donna

I watched the Peanuts halloween TV special, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," every year when I was a kid. I got very confused when Linus kept saying that his pumpkin patch had nothing but sincerity "as far as the eye can see" because, besides not knowing what sincerity was, I always heard the last part as "asfarazee I can see." I always wondered what an asfarazee was and why it was so great that Linus could see it.

Mandi

"an" is short for "and"

Anon

My niece was so proud of my new puppy and announced that he was "very HAVE." When I asked her what seh meant by that she said "You know, he is BEing very HAVE." Apparently she thought have was a verb and you had to be doing it.

Auntie

I thought that the word "Union" was pronounced "Onion".

Once, me and my family were naming banks to pass the time. I said "First Onion Bank"...

My mom corrected me...

Anon

For a while I thought that volcano was ballcano - which seemed feasible seeing as they chucked out great balls of fire.

Ju Ju

I used to see the signs for Antiques and thought it was pronounced ANTikews.I don't know at what age I finally made the connection between anTEEKes and Antiques. No wonder I went on to major in English in college! :-)

Sairey

Once in class i listened to a teacher with a wierd accent talking about "Coffee Sent Up". I could'nt make sense of what he was talking through that one hour. Later on i found out he saying "Coefficient of".

Dawood

One time, my mom said "Come put on your bathing suit." and i heard "come put on your baby suit." And i screamed "NO! I'M NOT A BABY!"

HannahBanana

I used to to mix up masturbation with Mastacation, so while at at a family dinner party I decided to show off my vocababulary and knowledge of a cows' digestive system. I sarted talking and said," ...Oh yes, did you know that after MASTURBATING its food teh food has to travel through 4 chambers...." Everybdy started laughing and my mum was mortified.

She wasnt too happy with me later when it sparked some interesting questions from my younger siblings later on...

Hayley

I used to call a barbeque a "bag-of-poo" up untill I was 10. Still makes me smile when I say it :)

Will