In my life, they have been as good as facts.
Well, we’re not talking fucking McDonald’s, here.
I tried once or twice, but guys tend to get embarassed when you bat at their silly external genitalia.
I was an adult when I learned that veal did not come from lamb.
It was the 70s…nobody knew anything then. That’s why we wore an onion on our belts.
To be fair it was the fashion at the time.
I was watching an episode of David Letterman where Chris Rock was the guest and someone yelled out “Woo! Shanghai Noon!” Rock pointed and said “THAT’S Chris TUCKER.” So you’re not the only one.
As for mine I was late 20s when I was describing someone to a friend as being “Her-sweet” to which she replied “Uh, do you mean hirsute?” For some reason I thought there was an extra “I” in there someplace. What’s worse, I’m sure I’d said it multiple times before and no one had bothered to correct me.
Don’t feel bad. I pronounced ‘‘epitome’’ as ‘‘Eh-pit-ohm’’ until I was 20.
I didn’t know until I was a senior in high school that “disciples” is pronounced “dis-EYE-puhls” and not “DISS-uh-puhls”. That’s mostly because I was raised unchurched and hadn’t connected the word I’d read so many times in so many contexts with those guys who followed Jesus around and listened to his stories. On my own behalf, I thought it would pronounced similarly to “discipline”, which clearly has the same root.
I only figured out that “lavicious” and “lascivious” were the same word a couple of months ago, and I’m 26.
It’s a running gag in my family to refer to something as the “epitome of hyperbole”–EP-ih-tome of HIE-pur-bowl.
yeah shotguns also fire bullets, so you were partially right. They’re know as slugs.
I don’t know how old I was, but for a very long time I thought ‘disciples’ was another word for ‘apostles’, and vice versa. And that it’s ‘vice versa’, not ‘vise-Ah vers-Ah’.
I bet it wasn’t one of those fancy WHITE ones, either!
I had always thought that Don Cornelius did the train whistle sounding “SOOOOOOOOUL Train!” intro, but found out in the past month or so it was actually off-screen announcer Sid McCoy.
I just came late to this thread, so pardon the comment on one of the first posts. I couldn’t resist, though.
The reason people combine the things, is because it cleans things VERY well. Unfortunately, the reason it does that is by producing free chlorine gas, which will kill you. I knew that, when I had to clean something really nasty, so I got one of those military surplus gas masks and had at it. Worked wonders.
I had a friend argue once that it was pronounced “vis-ah vers-ah,” as you said. So you’re not alone!
I get epitome right, but I mess up a similar one. I always want to say hyper-bowl. I know what the real pronunciation is, I just think it sounds wrong.
I’ve watched that video 10 times and I can’t tell what the person in the video is doing. To start with, he’s doing everything with the wrong hands 
As fas as I can tell, the way I tie my shoes doesn’t quite correspond to the video’s right way or its wrong way. My laces look more like the end result of the “right way” for whatever that’s worth.
I only figured out four or five years ago that the name “bean sprout” was literal, and they weren’t an exotic veggie. Never having eaten them, I didn’t get a close look at any until someone had them at lunch. I still don’t know why anyone would eat a baby plant, though.
Because they’ve got a mild taste (mix well with other ingredients) and an interesting texture (crisp). Also, because we hate babies.
At 39 I found out that draught was pronounced “draft”. I always knew that it had the same meaning as draft, but I would pronounce it in my head “drawt”. I said it aloud to someone and was roundly mocked.
Until just now, when I saw this and looked it up, I thought draught, as in draught beer or draught horse, was spelled “draft.” In fact, Google Chrome is telling me right now that “draught” is spelled incorrectly. :3