It’s kind of cute when a child pronounces something wrong, sings the wrong lyrics to a song, or makes funny assumptions about life based on their own limited knowledge.
It’s less adorable when it happens to an adult, but it is hilarious – and we’re allowed to laugh at grownups, so there’s that.
These 9 people are putting their embarrassing misunderstandings out into the world, so let’s take a look, shall we?
9. Kind of like a library I guess?
I have no idea what she’s talking about with the rest of it.
I’m afraid I have a few.
Firstly, I thought that in mail order catalogues, where it said (e.g) 20 weeks: £1.89 it meant you paid £1.89 and got to keep the thing for 20 weeks. I could never get my head around chocolates and hampers.
— GlennyRodge (@GlennyRodge) May 14, 2020
8. He straight-up admitted it took until he was 30.
Brave man, that one.
As a 10 year old I didn’t understand why the house, in Our House by Madness was in the middle of their street.
I’d worked it out by the time I was 30, they meant the middle of a row of terrace’s.— AMW (@AMarkW1973) May 13, 2020
7. Well she got the lubricant part right.
This one just killed me.
In the song ‘Grease Lightning’, there’s a line “you are supreme, the chicks will cream for Grease Lightning’. I thought it was chicks all cream – some sort of lubricant used in car repair.
— GlennyRodge (@GlennyRodge) May 14, 2020
6. I 100% pronounced it that way the first time I saw it in a book.
I was in middle school, though.
My colleague (she’s 25) thought the name Geoff was pronounced GEE-OFF and had been calling a contractor that for 2 years. 🙃
— Hannah (@hesaw_) May 13, 2020
5. The wording is a bit confusing.
To a child, I mean.
My worst one is that (until very recently), I thought the three kings that visited baby jesus were different people to the three wise men, i.e. there were 6 of them. I guess I just figured that one group didn’t bring presents.
— GlennyRodge (@GlennyRodge) May 14, 2020
4. I need to know at what age they learned the truth.
But he was kind of a villain.
I used to think Henry VIII was pronounced Henry Vill 🙈
— Matt Paulinson (@MattPaulinson) May 13, 2020
3. Oh my goodness that poor dear.
Bless her little pea-pickin’ heart.
Pub quiz question: Do more cars drive on the left or right side of the road?
Me (very loudly): what’s a moor car?
I thought it was some kind of off road vehicle 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
— Lucy In The Bar (@shambalulu) May 14, 2020
2. I can never un-see that now.
The name thing cracks me up though.
As a kid I thought this logo for the Bull Ring in Birmingham was a dinosaur with its head on the right at the end of a long neck.
I mean, it’s CALLED the Bull Ring, for god’s sake. pic.twitter.com/ZyL3kw4ZgT
— Phil (@fatboyfat) May 14, 2020
1. Like in Bedknobs and Broomsticks I guess.
That song about Portobello Road really isn’t appropriate for kids, right?
Thought the black market was an actual place, like a shadowy warehouse somewhere.
— R (@mr_rich_b) May 13, 2020
Some of these are understandable, but others…I’m not so sure!
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