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Up until as recently as five years ago, I thought “elbow grease” was an actual thing. Like, a product you used. I had only heard it referenced in keeping your car clean and keeping your face clean. “Use plenty of elbow grease!” I thought you put something called elbow grease on your car and on your face.
I have always pronounced etcetera as ‘Ex-etra’.
I frequently mis-use e.g. and i.e. and hope for the best.
When I was 11 years old, I kept calling my brother stupid because he thought UV stood for ultra-violet when it obviously stood for ultra-violent.
Ultra-violent rays.
I had not read clockwork orange at this point btw.
He is 3 years younger than me.
When I was a teenager I had no idea that pancake syrup and maple syrup are different things. I always wondered why pancakes tasted better at a restaurant.
When I was 13 or so, I had mashed and scrambled the words “cathedral” and “citadel” together and somehow thought there was a type of building called a “ca-det-chul”. I would use it in conversation and no one ever corrected me.
Up until this year I didn’t know that the word I saw in books spelled “awry” was the same word that sounds like “uh-rye”. Whenever I read the word in books I’d pronounce it more like “ow-ree” or “aww-ree”. It wasn’t until I was reading something aloud to my husband and I pronounced it incorrectly that I realized it because he looked at it and was like “you mean ‘uh-rye’?”. The biggest lightbulb ever turned on in my head. That word made so much more sense when reading – and it answered the question of why I’d never heard people use the word even though it was sure in a lot of books.
Up until my mid 20’s I thought “Midnight Shyamalan” was a great filmmaker.
I also still do not understand how phones make a call.
My biggest mistake was to slowly adopt other peoples’ values and believe in an external purpose of life and an external savior — and to try to convince other people to do the same. I thereby hindered our healing processes and our free growth into self-responsible, self-sustainable, self-caring, resilient and overall developed persons.
😀 That hurt
I have mistakenly used the phrase “wow, she looks really homely!” As a compliment when referring to an attractive, intelligent woman before. I thought homely meant someone you can see creating a home and family with.
Along the same lines, i once called a female friend stout as a compliment once because shes “small and very strong, like an immovable object.”
😬 im so ashamed
I was navigating our road trip through Ireland on our honeymoon 20 years ago using a driver’s information booklet. We came to a sign in the road that I was convinced meant “No Entry!” But there was no other way to get to our destination. I forced us to pull over and ask some kindhearted locals. The sign meant “No posted speed limit. Proceed with caution.” My conviction that I was right cost us 30 minutes on our drive. But no harm and no bad feelings. Just a nice chat with some friendly people. 🙂
Last week I insisted to my husband that the song Material Girl by Madonna was released 1987. Because I use a pretty reliable memory timetable that associates popular songs with events or the “era,” (nod to TSwift) of my life, I was 100% sure I was remembering correctly. But because I had a repeat of a similar type of life event in both 1984 AND in 1987, I mis-associated. My man never makes me feel bad for being wrong which makes it easier to admit.
I can think of many things, but one that I remember now is that I thought that the famous author Terry Pratchett was a woman.
Love Terry Pratchett! I am sure he wouldn’t have minded 😊
I meet my fiancé some years ago during an Erasmus in Glasgow. I am Spanish, he is French. He told me that one of the things he admire the most about me was my lack of fear of making mistakes or being wrong. It inspired him to speak more English without worrying about being perfect.
And one thing I love in life it’s for somebody to make me change of opinion. It means there is an angle about the topic that never came to my mind. It opens new paths of seeing and understanding things.
And as of right now, I am sorry for any possible mistakes in my writing but I just wanted to share my part.