I didn’t know that Arkansas wasn’t pronounced as spelled until I was in the tenth grade.
In my defense, I lived in England until the year before.
And me. So what, they grow underground like potatoes?
I never thought about it. But now that I do - why don’t they grow on trees? They look like they ought to.
Because they just don’t.
Until I was in midle school I thought the Salem Witch trials occured in Salem, Oregon.
The strange thing is, I knew all about Salem, Ma and knew all about Salem, Ore and that one was colonial and one was from the western expansion.
For some reason, when the Witch trials would come up Salem, Ore would pop in my head.
Weird.
I just found out we don’t get French benefits!
I thought tome was pronounced as two syllables with the second syllable having a long “A” sound. When my coworker pointed this out I was stunned. I still prefer my pronunciation.
So pineapples don’t grow on trees…who’d have thunk it.
That’s ok, my brother had the same revelation about anchovies in olives when he was 25. One day we were preparing the salad, he opened the can, started adding olives to the salad, stared at the olives in the can and said “do they have to take the pits out before putting the anchovies in? I mean, they don’t have a tree that grows fishies inside its fruit, right?” “Right on both. Have you gotten any sleep lately?”
My boss discovered last week that subcontractors depend from the HR department of the subcontractor company (the people who pay our salaries), and not from the HR department of the subcontracting company (the people who get charged for our work). In other words, their HR policies don’t all apply to us. What gave us all a bad case of the rolleyes is that she doesn’t miss a chance to remind us that “you’re just a subcontractor”.
Sometimes I catch public announcements on the radio, about declaring So-and-so dead because he went for tobacco back in '38 and hasn’t been heard of again. This usually happens when So-and-so’s grandchildren discover that they can’t split Grandma’s house because she never legally owned it… Gramps did and he went for tobacco 70 years ago. The oldest date I remember hearing was something like 1906.
So I asked my SO, “What do pineapples grow on?” And he said bushes. :smack: I always, always thought they were on trees. I mean it wasn’t a long involved thought process, but still.
Sigh.
Well, in your defense, in the state of Kansas the Arkansas River is pronounced Ar-KAN-zus.
Boy, there’s a tree you don’t want to walk under late in the growing season. “Hmm… what’s that whistling sound?” 
:rolleyes: :eek: KLONNNNG!
Well, I will be dipped. Guess I learned something today.
Well, there was another guy who would have come up with the theory of Gravity Before Newton, but sadly, he was sitting under a pinapple tree.
An informal poll among my coworkers (all well-educated, learned, travelled people) came up 50/50 as to the pineapple tree controversy.
Whacha talkin’ 'bout, Willis! :mad:
Pineapples come from pine trees, of course :o
and they were burned at the stake, hence Salem cigarettes.
Nope. Because, having missed that thread you speak of, I thought the same thing. So you were ahead of at least one other person on that subject.
I had a Middle School teacher who was fired for telling us that. 
I was in my early twenties when I realized that no one is ever “towing the line”. I could never figure out *why * you would tow a line and to where it would be towed. :smack:
If you really want to, you can plant the leafy top of a pineapple in a pot, and it will eventually grow another pineapple.
The words on a gravestone, it turns out, are an epitaph, not an epitath. :smack: I was past fifty before I found that out.