To want to know something you wrongly believed was true all your life ?

[ChristineCagney11]

Posting to try and take our minds off bad things for a moment
I'm in my fifties someone on here posted about a "Party wall" a few weeks ago, I laughed because I thought they were mistaken, I have always thought the word for a wall between two properties was "Parting wall"
How did I not know ??
Also over the years when I've watched, usually men taking off the tops of beer bottles with their hands on US programmes.
I may or most definitely may have tried to do this myself not realising they have twisty tops in the US.
You ?

Oh also when I moved to America when I was 12 I thought Pizza Hut was “Pizza Hot” and was annoyed when corrected because hot pizza is nice but a hut was a gross dirty little building put together out of scraps and rubbish and not anywhere where anyone would want to get pizza.

I thought Jehovah's witnesses were called German witnesses 🤦🏼‍♀️

Oh no! That's what I've actually always thought until you just enlightened me! Did you ever see 'The Young Ones, Scumbag college' when Vivian lost his rag and smashed his foot down below through the barrier to the 'posh' college, ('Footlights' or something)?

The sea is "down" though
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I always thought the word 'misled' was pronounced 'mizzled' , so I could never make any sense of whatever sentence it was in and just learnt to disregard it !

What do you mean?

I thought narwhales were mythical creatures like unicorns, dragons etc until very, very recently

I remember having an argument with my ex he insisted Enid Blyton was a man. The clues in the name - Enid!

I liked the name Esme Dh had never heard it and insisted I had made it up!

I used to get confused about why Lucille left Kenny with 400 children and a drop in the sea? Like WTF is that about?

Kenny Rogers song quote: “You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a crop in the field.”

That makes MUCH more sense!!!

@GregoryFluff
You're not the only one and I've read nature/wildlife books avidly since a child

@Boiledbeetle
Thought it was 400 children too until well NOW
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I was an adult (I'm not sure but it may even have been after my biology degree), before I realised that women didn't have one fewer rib.

bloody church school... 🙄

They're not?!

Absolutely crying at "bird wanked" and "fish wanked" 😂

I thought the star wars characters had Light Savers. (Lightsabres)

Also my Grandad told me that only male robins had red chests.

You have no idea how pleased I am to discover I'm not the only one. Thank you!!

When I was a child I thought it was a jewel carriageway and that the cats eyes in the road were the jewels

I thought a hiatus was a noisy, disruptive period.

I thought it was "Lord of The Dunce".

For some reason this has suddenly reminded me that when i was very small and on one of the beaches in Dorset my Dad would point out the big 'Fairy' going over to Sandbanks.

Even though i was probably only about 4 i can clearly actually remember nodding away while thinking 'what the heck is dad on about? He said this last year. I still can't see this bloomin' fairy 😂

CHimbley is very common in the NW where I grew up. My late Dad insisted that shopping prestinct was correct.

For years, as a child, I called the sturdy pillar at the bottom of our stairs the "Mule Post". I thought it was something to do with tethering mules in the hall, which puzzled me, as out hall wasn't that big. Eventually someone put me right about the Newel Post.

My dad had brilliant form for telling us believable stories for a jolly jape... he did the dont wee in swimming pool cos it'll go purple story too; he told me (which I believed for years when little) that God invented colour in 1945 so that's why photos and films were black and white before then (I thought everything was b&w.... dad doesn't even believe in God so he was pleased with that one !)

We've carried in the tradition

I had my BFF and later my own DCs going for best part of a year each that Elephant came originally from the word "Heavy Lump" but over the years it was altered .. Heffalump then effalump ... effalamp .. elephant. "Best word ever"

Delighted to hear my friend tell someone else how descriptive an animal name it is once you know the origin of it ... . (When they burst out laughing she did throw a rubber at me and snort with laughter !) (DCs too...!)

I thought absconding was something vaguely indecent 'the prisoner absconded' must be too rude to spell out, maybe a nasty sexual act of some kind.

I also thought there was a lady singer with a lovely voice called Ellafitz Gerald.

That song was on the radio a lot when my first baby was born in '77, one of the other new Mums got really angry at the thought of having 400 children, she thought one hurt enough. It took a long time to convince her of the correct words.