I have a story like that Matsi!

my best friend (15 at the time) and I were about to cross the street when a car quickly goes by us. She yells "Presbyterians first" I crack up and say "you mean pedestrians" and I still joke with her about it today

wow, at least with an 8yr old it makes sense. I can't believe a 15yr old wouldn't know the difference there

I have one. When I was maybe 4 or 5 I didn't know or understand that people were different nationalities. Even though they looked different I thought everyone was the same. I didn't realize I was Asian until someone made fun of me.

Everyone IS the same. It's just the silly people who don't realize that.

*hugs stateofgreen*

I had some of those pronunciation problems when I was little, and I still have some today. It's mostly because I read a LOT and I just fudge pronunciations for the words that I don't know. One form me was (for vinyl) vin-ull instead of vine-ull (I still confuse the two) and my sister called antiques Ann-tick-cues.

my best friend (15 at the time) and I were about to cross the street when a car quickly goes by us. She yells "Presbyterians first" I crack up and say "you mean pedestrians" and I still joke with her about it today

georgiefan1, that made me laugh out loud, it was so funny!

I used to think patio was pronounced "pashio". I guess this was because I knew "tio" made a "sh" sound, like in all of the words ending in "tion". But I had heard the word "patio"; I just didn't know that the word I was hearing and the word I was seeing were the same word. I thought they were two totally separate words!

Also, when I was in high school, I did a presentation with the word "aristocracy" in it, and in front of the whole class, I said "arIStocracy"! I emphasized the second syllable instead of the third. When my friend told me later, I was quite embarrassed!

And, I know this isn't a misconception I had as a child, but, speaking of mispronunciations, to this day, I can't say the word "cinema" correctly. My mom (johobbit) always makes fun of me (in love) because I pronounce it in a sort of "French" way, emphasizing the last syllable instead of the first. I just can't say "CInema"; I say "cineMA"! (Maybe this comes with living in Canada, and taking French class up to grade 11 in high school!)

Yeah I had sorta the same misconception as stateofgreen, only I just didn't notice that until a teacher tried to convince us that people sub-consciously segregate each other and then realized that all of my friends are different nationalities... so ha to that teacher!

While we're on funny mispronunciations, I used to think that "matinee" and "manatee" were the same thing, I finally found out when someone went "you want to see a whale in theaters?!?"

One thing comes to mind. I thought the pronunciation of the city and the car was PLY-MOUTH instead of Pli-muth. So the pilgrims were in PLY-MOUTH for a very long time until I realized my pronunciation error.

I used to think for a while that people who died in movies were convicted criminals who had chosen to be killed in a movie... creepy idea I know. Don't know where I got it!

I used to think for a while that people who died in movies were convicted criminals who had chosen to be killed in a movie... creepy idea I know. Don't know where I got it!

I don't know either Arvan, but I thought the same thing! I was quite shocked at how many people wanted to die!

When I was younger, I was taught that what's on TV/movies is fake. However, my mom explained it is just people in costumes. I thought she meant ALL TV shows and movies. I thought animated cartoons were just costumes of some sort I guess.

Until I was about ten years old I thought narwhales were as imaginary as unicorns.

For some reason when I was a kid I used to think that if I left the T.V on my favorite show when I left, it would record it and I could watch it again. I don't know how that logic worked, but sometimes before we left somewhere I would leave the T.V on my show so I could watch it when I got back.

I used to think that hockey players were released convicts from jail
I have no idea why

For some reason when I was a kid I used to think that if I left the T.V on my favorite show when I left, it would record it and I could watch it again. I don't know how that logic worked, but sometimes before we left somewhere I would leave the T.V on my show so I could watch it when I got back.

I did almost that same thing except when I would get a blank tape I would label the name of the show or movie and pop it into my vcr while that show would come on and i thought it would automatically record, lol. Your story is hilarious.

I thought when a radio was turned off, it was really just turned down so low you couldn't hear it. And once I learned that the eye sees images upside-down and the brain flips it for you so I told my parents, "If you didn't have a brain you'd see everything upside-down." I was such a clever child.

When I was 6, I saw a man and a woman hugging and assumed that they were married.