re: Things you mis-pronounced or just mis-understood when you were young.

I thought Mardi Gras was a national holiday until my freshman year in high school

When I was really young I thought Georgia was totally uninhabited. We drove through there on the way to Disney when I was like 5 or 6 years old and all I saw was mile after mile of interstate with nothing but woods on both sides of the highway. I remember being baffled why nobody wanted to live there.

Never could figure out why the "windshield factor" was such a big deal in the winter. I still call it that now though.

When I was about 8 or 9, I asked my aunt (my mom's sister) who her mom and dad were. I was visualizing this old couple that I'd never met and was wondering why we never saw them. She said her father had passed away, and my imagination erased the elderly man and kept this woman. I asked about her mom, and she said, "it's your grandmother, Ma Ma __." I felt pretty stupid.

I said once "I was born 5 weeks immature"

We had a deacon from Saint Bernard so when I was little, I always thought the word "foyer" was "foyah" until my mom laughingly corrected me.

damn iphone

quote:

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I called computer- compooter
Trumpet-Chumpet

I got death and deaf confused.
Grandma: cut that TV down before you go deaf!
Me: noooo I don't wanna die grammar!

I could go on

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When we were little my brother for some reason could not say "ditch", instead he said "bitch". Drove our mamma crazy.

I would say ammonia instead of pneumonia. "Mom said I'll catch ammonia if I go outside without a coat"

Also thought Alzheimer's was Old Timer's. "He has old timer's disease"

When I was about 3 or 4, my parents tried to take me to a movie, but told me "all the seats were taken." For a few years, my young mind tried to figure out how someone had broken into the theater and stolen all the seats! I mean, they were bolted down and everything!