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Things you used

Things you used to think when you were little

 

I used to think that my last name was Effesinfrank, because my parents would always spell it out when they were on the phone.

Until last year, I thought that birthday in Spanish was crumpleaños. It's not. It's cumpleaños.

What did you used to think when you were little? 

submitted by Kitten
(January 3, 2019 - 12:59 pm)

back to the Chirp at Cricket

OOooohhhhh, now I remember one. 

Not telling, though, because 't'would disgust. 

submitted by Aquamarine, age XI, The Ocean
(January 5, 2019 - 2:34 pm)

I've always been terrible at pronouncing things (still am), probably because I learnt so many words by reading. The worst of all my mispronounciations was probably on the word "misled". For a long time I read it as "MY-zuld", sorta like the way "tousled" is pronunced. I still do in my head, to be honest. To me, myzuld is an actual word that means "tricked, swindled".

*facepalms*

*shrugs* 

Myzul. 

submitted by coyotedomino, age 15, Lost
(January 7, 2019 - 3:05 am)

I used to think that Phoebe was pronounced 'feeb'. I also thought the name of a grocery store was 'Blawblaws' rather than 'Loblaws'.

Lastly, when I was around 3 (in daycare) I thought boogers and burgers were pronounced the same way. And the resulting scene is caught on camera: My innocent 3 year old self, toddling up to the daycare supervisor and saying in the stuttering way accustomed to small children, "I, I need a, a tissue, becuase, I, uh, I have, uh, burgers, in, in my nose."

 

P.S. Why is the age slot sometimes above the location slot and sometimes below?? 

submitted by Peaches, age Immortal
(January 9, 2019 - 6:15 pm)

I thought Phoebe was pronounced "fo-EE-bee". Tongue out

submitted by Coroline
(January 10, 2019 - 5:02 am)

When I was little my dad would make chicken cacciatore, which I had incredible difficulty saying. I pronounced it as 'kitchen tack-a-tory' and eventually forgot that this wasn't actually the name of the dish. My reasoning being, "Well, it's made in a kitchen..."

Come to think of it, I had a lot of strange names for food. Campbell's chicken noodle soup was 'chichum lickum', and stew with beef, beans, and alphabet letters was 'oop-a-doop soup'. 

 

Ooooh, it must have been fun to eat at your house, Cockleburr!

Admin

 

submitted by Cockleburr
(January 11, 2019 - 7:32 pm)

I had these two big freckles on my arm. (still have 'em).

Anyway, one day I put a sippee cup on the bigger one of these two freckles, and one I took it off, it seemed to me it was bigger.

Also my family used to call sippee cups gee cups(long story). 

submitted by Aquamarine, age XI, In the Clouds
(January 14, 2019 - 11:19 am)

because of my brother's joke, I thought my Kindergarten gym teacher was named Mr. Almond.

It wasn't until I switched schools in first grade and lived there until fifth or fourth  that I found out it was Mr. Allman.

submitted by Ella Starburst, chair
(January 28, 2019 - 6:08 pm)
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