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l used to believe that lowercase I is an l.

confusing you :3

I was always in trouble in one form or another, and hated having to apoligize. One day I decided that I'd get all my "I'm sorrys" out of the way and skipped around our neighborhood singing 'I'm sorry' over and over again so I wouldn't have to say it what I was angry. Too bad that one didn't work.

Jenni Winfrey

When I was little I used to think that the line "rubber baby buggy bumpers" meant that the baby was rubber.

laf

I used to believe linemen ( said linnymen) was a road treatment that would cause damage to your car if you drove over it. It appears I was mistaken, and linemen are people...
Although, they will still cause damage to your car if you run over them, so I had it half right!

discocat

I never understood the abbreviation for White anglo-saxon Protestant (WASP) so as a teenager I thought these initials stood for "Women Absent of Sexual Preference"!!

Lyn Preece

I started a new job, and there was a guy name Eddie Portorica (who I did not know). When ever someone wanted Eddie they would call over the loud speaker for him. For the longest time I always thought they were saying "Any Puerto Rican" call this number. I always thought that there was a group there that were from Puerto Rico... Until I finally meet Eddie

ANON

I used to believe that there were two ways to say the word spelt 'misled'. One was pronounced 'my-zuld' and was to be fooled by a miser, and the other one was 'miss-lead' (the real one) which was to be lead astray.

Jade

I'm not american and english...and the most of the words i know is from my friends !!
And one day someone asked me if I had a fag...i wasn't sure what he was asking and after a while i understood fag ( like a gay person ) i got mad and said WHAT ??!! ARE YOU CALLING ME A FAG ???
he started to laugh and said he was asking for a cigarette...i felt so stupid

val

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

For the longes time, I said ,"Human Bean."

Amber

spaghetti was pronounced "piscetti"

Anon

I used to think that green was purple and purple was green... and now I still have to think about it before saying purple or green.

Cassie

My family name is pronounced "Wah" and I thought when my parents were talking about a large number of something they were talking about the "'Wah' Zoo," meaning our family or our house. So it was a large amount of something that we had. I was VERY confused when I heard a friend using the term "up the wazoo" in regards to her family . . . I told her she should use the term "Jones's zoo" since that was her last name.

Anon

I was really taken aback when someone told me what "toe jam" actually means. Before that, I had heard the term quite a few times, always thinking it was the name of some rock band.

Alison

I used to think "decorum" was a bottle of rum that sat on a table as decoration. I blame it on the book where I first saw it used...

Aretia

I used to think people were saying "Youth in Asia" when talking about "Euthanasia." I never understood why everyone was obsessed with talking about little kids from Asia.

asia

During one of our family conversations, the subject of gulibility not being in the dictionary came up. My little sister piped up "It's really not in the dictionary, my friend told me".

Oh how we laughed..

Fido Dido

I used to believe (until 2 years ago, I'm 25) that the word excavator was pronounced "ex-cav-a-gat-or". I have other words I could never pronounce right either. My family still makes fun of me...

Patty, NY

I had never heard the name pronounced, so I always said Zsa Zsa Gabor, "Zeesa-Zeesa Gay-bor."

blnkfrnk

I was shockingly old - in my twenties, even - when I finally understood the joke "What's black and white and read all over?" "A newspaper"

Of course, written down, it's not so tough to work out...

Z