Have you ever thought a word meant something else, then were embarassed when you were wrong?

Question

When I was little I thought the word "fetus" was plural for 2 feet.

Answer 1

Yes I have and that is very embarassing and I am very sure it has happened to everybody at one point or another and they can't say that it hasn't

Answer 2

I was embarrased in primary school. I think i was in year 2 or something and the kids in year 6 i think were talking about how long penis' were. And i thought penis was another form of ruler. How wrong was i - lol. I always remembered that when i said in class 'Has any1 got a penis i can borrow?' And then everyone laughed, lucky i found out what it meant soon after lol.

I thought plurals always ended in fus for some reason. So it was nosefus and earfus. I was a really strange child. How did my daughter become so intelligent?

Answer 3

One time I was reading the newspaper aloud in study hall to my principal and classmates. It was a run-down of what was happening on a soap opera they all watched. I obviously did not watch it as I repeated the name Kall ee ope, as a character, when it was Calliope, like the music played on a merry go round. I am normally a decent speller and reader, but still remember that day.

Answer 4

Hah that's awesome.
Actually mispronunciation is more embarassing. Once in a psychology class I pronounced "placebo" as "place bo". Man did I feel like an idiot. I also heard of someone pronouncing Aborigines from Australia as "Aborgeans".

Answer 5

I misinterpreted a whole sentence once,
I thought "will you marry me?" meant to entwine my life with that of another human being so as to lead a happy life with that individual. I hadn't realized what it actually meant was, "will you become my slave, suffer the loss of your dignity and be my punch bag for the rest of your days?".
Lucky I figured it out before the ring went on, though I was embarrassed to have to explain it to my friends and family...

Answer 6

Yes, my little brother thought that the boughs of a tree referred to puppies hiding in the Christmas tree. He had to have my dad carry him pass it every night to get to bed.

Answer 7

Now THAT'S adorable! When I was little, the older girls would tell me that I'd "go through some changes" when growing up. They refused to explain it, so I thought little girls grew up to be men, and little boys grew up to be women! (And in some places, it DOES happen!) lol

Answer 8

♣RikiTikiTavi♥ had a brilliant answer especially.. What a different place the world would be had that been true!

When I was three I called a butter cup 'butter chick', though luckily for me 'chick' in Dutch really only refers to wee chickens.

Answer 9

you're no longer the only screw up in that school, as a count of certainty, that`s why you`re at college, to earnings the thank you to no longer screw up in existence. the subsequent time you're in touch with him, swallow perplexing and say sorry. you could discover that he`ll forgive, and you`ll even have made that elusive first touch.

Answer 10

Who hasn't??