Childhood misunderstandings

I pronounced superfluous as soo' per floo' us.

 

My twins seem to think everything in the world has batteries. If they are told 'no' in any context, they think there's some kind of battery problem involved.

 

Wait, INXS isn't pronounced Inkses?

 

That's interesting, because I saw a woman sucking a guy off in an alley in San Francisco. I was like 30, though.

 

Dad: "Did you go No. 1 or No. 2?"
Me (Looking at stall doors): "I don't know. There's no numbers on the door."

 

Took me a while to realize when someone said they were sleeping with someone else, not to take it literally.

 

That's like going to the Mummer's parade back in the 1970s and 80s.

 

Until even a few years ago, I didn't realize owls are birds. I thought those weirdos had their own private species.

 

I thought awry was "AWE-ree." And funereal was "fyoo-na-REEL."

 

I swear this one was NOT me. A girl on my freshman floor thought lingerie was pronounced "linGER-ee" (hard g). A bunch of us were playing some kind of drinking game and she gave that as her answer to some question. No one knew what she was talking about. "You know, linGER-ee. Like bras?" A few people stifled laughter and we just moved on. I have no idea when she figured out she was saying it wrong.