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Posted on 11-16-09 01:07:03 AM Link | Quote


Post silly little misconceptions you used to have here

For me:

- I got the word breaks wrong in some phrases and names I heard aloud:
Joan of Arc -> "Joe Nevark", and I thought she was a man, too.
Don Quixote -> "Donkey Hote"
Prima donna -> "pre-Madonna", like before the singer Madonna was famous

- I thought there were 2 words meaning the same thing: "debris" (deb-riss) and "debree" (duh-bree). I didn't realize that one I only saw and the other I only heard, and that they were the same word with an irregular pronunciation.

- I thought the word "intrinsic" was "intristic" for quite a while, until I heard it spoken.

- You know the land bridge that once linked Siberia with Alaska? I thought it was a narrow little bridge maybe 3 m by 5 m or so, not this hugely wide thing that was about as wide as Alaska itself.

- I thought Tasmania didn't exist Later, I thought that "Tasmanian" was some exotic language (when I babbled in gibberish, my dad would call it Tasmanian), until I learned that people in Tasmania speak English.

- I thought a kookaburra was something my dad made up. He made up some similar words.

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Posted on 11-16-09 05:59:25 PM Link | Quote
I actually once thought the days of the week were random. This was back in, say... 1995, though. Once I started going to school this was quickly cleaned up... if not even sooner than that.

Can't think of anything else right now.

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Posted on 11-17-09 08:01:44 PM Link | Quote
I used to think lesbians came from Lesbia.

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Posted on 11-17-09 08:46:51 PM Link | Quote
Supakitsune's post
Originally posted by jamosup
I used to think lesbians came from Lesbia.
How about here?
Anyway, I used to think "peculiar" was prenounced "pelicular". This is why.

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Posted on 11-18-09 05:33:02 AM Link | Quote
Mostly just the usual misunderstandings: Should of instead of should have.

Could care less as opposed to couldn't care less.

The list goes on.
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Posted on 11-18-09 06:13:55 AM Link | Quote
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I think one of my bigger ones was wayyyy back when I used to spell Tomorrow with an A. I knew it was wrong too, but I kept spelling it my way for some reason. (Tomarrow)

The other thing is with Debris. I thought it was "derr-biss" instead of "deb-riss". I have no idea how that one came about, honestly.

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