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at the age of 6 i believed that flush was a color

zod227

I thought that Cul De Sac was one word "coldesack" because I had only heard it but never seen it written

Samilton Duerheiser

When I was very little, I couldn't understand what the grown-ups were always talking about. I hadn't learned to speak properly yet.
I remember thinking back then: "Oh no, do I have to learn that awfull dificult language one day?", or something of that kind.
Looking back on it, it was kinda funny, since I work with languages now.
:-)

Wolfgrrrl

As a young elementary-school student I thought you pronounced POLAND (the nation) as Pah-land (short O sound). To this day my father still ribs me about this.

Ellen Levitt

A long time ago, my friend had a different meaning for the word "gay".
So, one day, we were driving in the car (his dad was driving and his older brother-who was about 16-was in the passenger seat) and my friend said "hey dad, I'm gay!"
He was about 6 years old at the time and since then everyone still teases him about it.

Anon

when i was younger, instead of saying 'ladies and gentlemen', i used to say 'ladies and jelleyments'

sausage

i used to think the word "navel" was somthing kind of dirty. i knew it wasnt,but everytime it was said, i would secretly laugh in my head.

anastacia beeverhousen

I used to believe adjacent was pronounced add-juh-sent, the a making the uh sound like in the word uh. Then when I heard adjacent I thought I heard ajason, so I've pronounced adjacent over three different ways before learning the correct pronounciation.

Aerith

When I was younger, I used to think when my mom said "P.O. Box" she was really saying "Pill Box." So I wondered why she would call it as pill box as if there were medicine pills in there when there was only mail. Just recently am I finding out that it's pronounced Pee-Oh box.

Tiara

when I was about 9 I started hearing other kids say "My bad..." for the first time. But I heard it for the first time at the end of recess, when some kid had left his lunchbag and a teacher was going around asking who forgot theirs. So the kid went up and seeing him taking his lunchbag, I thought he said "My bag...." and the next day at shop class I pushed someone's eraser off the table by mistake and said "My bag..." One of my classmates said that it's supposed to be "My bad..." They all laughed.

Art

I used to often wonder if the words that came out of my mouth sounded different to others, and the things they said sounded different to me.. odd huh?

Jen

i always thought albeit meant i'll be it

reh

There was a news reporter ( still is )
whose name was Joyce Kulhawik. By the way it was pronounced, and never seeing it in print, I always thought her name
was JOYCEKUL HAWIK

Jill

I remember the loudest thing ever on TV. It was on Friday night, at probably 9:15 or so, just as the latest episode of Mannix was really getting underway. The camera would cut to a shot of a big, black, heavy telephone (so common then), and it would ring like all the church bells in the world going off at the same time. This happened at least once every episode.

I'd be sound asleep on the floor in my jammies by then, after having gorged myself on popcorn and my own 16-oz. bottle of Coke (in the original curvy glass bottle). I'd practically leap up to the ceiling in fright.

We kids thought Mannix was the last word in extreme TV, because there was something in one of the constant commercials for the show (it was quite the hit back then) about how he "had the guts to get the job done."

The worst phrase any of us had ever used was, "I hate your guts!" and we all knew how much trouble we'd get into for saying it. So it seemed that "guts" was the key word, because you could say, "I hate broccoli!" without the Four Horseman (with my mother at their head) riding down on you. So we were awed that we could hear this awful word spoken, right out in front of everything, and nobody got yelled at.

On another note, my younger brother referred to Clarence on The Mod Squad as the "The Chocolate Man." At age 4 or so, nothing could convince him that poor Clarence wasn't like one of those solid chocolate Easter bunnies.

Dan

We were playing table tennis and my friend didn't know what gay (fagget) means...so while we were outdors and there were some bats flying around we told him fagget=bat...well he kind of liked the new word he learned and started telling us how many faggets there are around his house all the time and then he started flapping his hands aroud and screaming that he is fagget too...i needn't say we almost pissed ourselves laughing (no offense to gay community meant)

Strudl

When I was little I didn't know what the word 'determined' meant and always pronounced it 'dettermind.' It took me ages to realise what it meant and how it was really supposed to be pronounced. How embarrassing!

Nicky

i thought that LOL meant Lots Of Laughs...even though it is used as Laugh Out Loud!!! Boy i was dumb

pimp skeet

My mom was in a beauty pageant, and during the interview part, they asked her what she thought about "euthanasia". She happily proceeded to talk about how much she loves "youth in asia".... I dare say she didn't win that pageant.

Anon

When my daughters were little, they would say "college cheese" for cottage cheese, and "rock 'n roll ice cream" for rocky road, and "fruit cottontail" for fruit cocktail and "cold slop" for cole slaw. They're 25 & 23 now, but we still use those terms in our house for fun!

"Shaniquah"

I used to think I could speak Cat. I would say 'meow meow meow' while thinking the words I wanted to say to it and thought the cat would understand me. :)

Jen