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I used to babysit for a little girl, Katherine, and when she was about 2 1/2 she would say that "this is mys" - it made perfect sense to her: if something that belonged to you is "yours" then if it belonged to her, it must be "mys".

nrs

I pronounced "adolescent" as uh-DOLE-sent once and my mother cracked up after figuring out what I was saying.

Also around this same time in my life, I pronounced "adirondack" as uh-DEAR-on-dack. Mom again got a good laugh. However, while at my condo complex's pool this summer, I heard a woman in her 30s pronounce the word the same way. I felt superior, as I had learned the proper pronunciation years ago.

Leslie D. P.

We have Mormons come around to all the houses in our village to preach but when I was little I used to say that the Mormons were Normans.

Anon

i used to think that faggots were midgets

Summer

I used to beleive that a nightgown was called a nightdown

matthew ouellet from canada

When I was in 5th grade I was talking to my friend Nora. I was talking about animals and mentioned a "horny toad". I thought this was the kind of toad that has little spike-like things on it's face. Nora started laughing hysterically, and after she was done, she explained to me what the word horny ment, but I still didn't get it.

Raisa

i used to believe that a hooker is a female hacker

Anon

when someone would sneeze I would say "blush you" instead of "bless you".. to this day i still have a problem saying "bless you"

Anon

This is just someting funny my grandma did. We had a person almost drown in a pond by our house and my uncle pulled them out and gave artifical respiration. My grandma was so proud she told everyone that her son did 'artifical insemonation'. Only after the rumor had spread did we finally cath what she was telling everyone!

Anon

When I was five, I kept getting the words college and recess confused. Somehow I thought they were one and the same thing.

Chris

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

One day I was talking to my dad about when people get kicked out of their house. I was trying to think of the word "Eviction Notice"but instead i said, "erection notice" My dad told me to never say that word again and he never told me why. A few years later I rwalized what it meant. Hehe... I'm only human!

eviction notice

When my sister was little, we would stay at home alone together a lot. We were sitting around one night when the phone rang. I went and answered it and came back It was just a telemarketer so I had hung up rather quickly. My sister asked who it was, and I was in the mood to speak fancily. So I told her it was a solicitor. She wouldn't stop screaming that I shouldn't scare her like that and to stop being mean. She was so loud, it took me a while to calm her down. Once she had settled herself a bit, she let me know (very defiantly) that she knew solicitor meant murderer and that I was just trying to scare her.

Emily Ruth

I used to think there were 3 guys who lived together in a cabin and made up all the words

Mommy

I used to believe the saying "It's a dog eat dog world" was really "It's a doggie dog world".

GrantJ

If you're from the Northeast USA, you may remember the chain-store Caldor (also called Caldors). Well, until I was about 6, I thought that the name was Cow-Doors. I was always looking for those cows.

My friend, whose last name is Hanlon, thought that her name was Hamlon until she learned to read and write. You know...like ham.

Amy

Up until I was in 7th grade I thought you said blesh you when someone sneezed instead of bless you. I still say blesh instead of bless and I doubt I'll ever stop.

Anon

one time when i was about 5, i asked my dad if you could only say a certain number of words in your life! I thought there was likea certain number of times you coudl say each word, like you could say your own name a million times before you died, but you could only say your best friends name half of a million times. After you used up all your times for saying a word you were never allowed to say it again.

Anon

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

Sunshine

when i was about 6, my mum told me a joke. it was 'how many letters are in the alphabet.....25 because the angel said no L ' i never used to get it so i used to go around saying 'cos the angel took away the g'

abi