Doesn't exactly fit topic, but my mom had this cookbook called 'hors d'oeuvres' since as early as I can remember and everytime I saw it I had no idea what that meant. Of course, I had heard the word a million times, but never made the connection. I would be like " 'whores da vors'? WTF is that?" It wasn't until I was about 18 that I got it.

A very Oedipal story, I tried to french my mother at some point before the age of five after watching a movie where people french kissed.

I mean, my mom's good-looking, but I never went that far with it. You're sick, brother.

The worst was hearing someone on "Million Dollar Listings" continually refer to himself as a "reel-a-ter". It would make me so angry to know that this guy luckboxed a job in which he gets millions in commission and he doesn't even know how to pronounce his own job. That would be like a nuclear engineer calling himself a "nookuler engineer". It was this guy fwiw.

I noticed during the Japan thing that CNN would pronounce it as a "new-cue-lar disaster". Bush had a profound influence on the English language.

When I was younger ( around 14 ) I just one day randomly thought that people who said speech impediment were messing up the word impairment on purpose to mock people with speech problems. I went around lecturing other kids for like a month that impediment was not a real word and that it was meant as a mocking way of saying speech impairment. One day me and my friend got in an argument about it and bet 10$ on it. We went and researched it on the internet and I felt like the biggest idiot in the world.

Really? kid looks 18 and like a hipster... I have a really hard time imagining him slangin real estate.

I lived in China until 8yrs old then came to America. At school in China we were supposed to stand up to give answers when called on, so the first time I answered a teacher's question in America, I remember bolting up from my seat, standing straight up and saying "library!" (the answer to the question) then sitting back down. No one actually made fun of me and I figured it out right away to stay seated.

Another time in 2nd grade was another kid mentioning God in school and I never knew anyone religious, so I was like, haha this kid believes in god, what a wierdo. Then all the other kids told me God was real, and I kept arguing that there was no such thing.

Also for about a year I thought the meaning of giving someone the middle finger was that you were swearing you hated them.

his parents are rich and he sells and buys their rich friends houses. real tough.

when i was pretty little, 5 or so, i would watch the lakers with my dad. magic johnson was his favorite player, so i also thought he was awesome. apparently i had never noticed a black person irl before because one day a black guy walks by in the grocery store and i yell out, "Mom look! Its Magic Johnson!" assuming that he is the only large black person on earth.

When I was 5 or 6, there was a kid with Down Syndrome in my daycare. One weekend I was going to a movies with a friend and his dad and saw a kid going into the bathroom that had Down Syndrome. Looking extremely similar, I assumed it was the same person and was quickly hushed up until the adult could explain why he looked the same once we were in the car.

screw them! You get a unique breakfast story, not the same old boring crap. Be proud of it!

ExCUSE me! It's pronounced "Whores-dee-ohvors".

I know, because I correctly pronounced it that way for years when I was young.

i thought it was hors devors too

all intensive purposes rather than intents and purposes

I have two, one word, one action.

When I was ~12 I was hanging out with my older cousin and degen uncle who I thought were both awesome. They were serving me beer and threw on some old school porn on the VCR (lol whitetrashaments) which was kind of eye opening, but I'd seen Playboys. FFS I was 6th grade! So I was playing chill and they were using the word "jizz" which I knew somewhere in my brain was short for a longer term..... what... is it..... AHA! next sentence from me quite confidently: "That sure was a lot of jizzle!"

The "first day of jr high" poast made me remember this. My last day of Jr High I was 5'8". First day of Senior High that fall I was 6'4". I had started dating this girl who was incredibly cute that summer and first day we're going to an assembly and I'm holding her hand (hardcore pimp ofc) and we're joking with a bunch of people when, completely out of my new line of sight, I walk right into a trash can that comes up to about mid thigh. I fall over it, hit myself in the balls on the way down, and the can and contents went errrrrverywhere. To make matters worse my mother was my HS principal and was just around the corner and arrived 10 seconds later encouraging everyone to make fun of me.

Not on topic, but this reminds me of the time my friends thought my 4th grade science fair project on acid rain was made up because they'd only ever heard of it on Transformers.

On topic- Pudge's milk story reminded me that my childhood best friend and I were mutually horrified to learn that I put ice cubs in OJ and that his family put ice cubs in Milk.

French benefits!

Alterior motives (eh, kind of a nitty one, I can't even begin to remember all the stupid mispronunciations I've had in my life)

not me but i was in a supermarket and overheard a snippet of a conversation that went 'it was a catchphrase 22 situation!'

apparently having lasagna at Thanksgiving is weird? come from a Mexican family so we also always have flautas, guacamole and spanish rice as side dishes at Easter and Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners

I used to think it was "Tacoma", like they were sending all the brain-dead people to Washington State.

Things you thought were normal.... till that fateful, definitely embarrassing, day you realized you were Mexican.

Western Illinois-ish.

My buddy (who follows basketball regularly) thought that the Washington Wizards were located in Washington state until he was about 25 years old.