pal
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posted on May 31, 2001 10:12:41 AM new
What I mean by that is, until recently I thought it was:
wheelbarrel not wheelbarrow
preforated not perforated
cornered off not cordoned off as in "The police cordoned off the area".
The first 2 I found out a few years ago. The last one, I just realized a couple of weeks ago!
Anyone else care to admit any?
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mtnmama
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posted on May 31, 2001 10:59:16 AM new
That's funny. I knew it was wheelbarrow but when I saw it just now, I had to look it up to be sure because all of a sudden, my brain said wheelbarrel is the right way. LOL! Ir made sense for a few minutes anyway.
No, I don't have any words I'm unsure of, but my husband could sure teach everyone a few funnies.
He's from the south, born and raised, a real Florida cracker. I've never heard of half the phrases and words he uses. I don't think anyone else has either 
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gaffan
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posted on May 31, 2001 11:01:06 AM new
Until I was about 12, I thought dawnsearly was an obscure old adjective concerning illumination. As in "...by the dawnsearly light...".
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Zazzie
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posted on May 31, 2001 11:06:55 AM new
My daughter asked me a 'Tooya' was.....to which I replied 'huh'?????
Her cousin had been saying to her "What is it to you?---though when he said it --it came out
'Whatz a tooya'?
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NearTheSea
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posted on May 31, 2001 11:07:07 AM new
the word wierd always bugged me
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Zazzie
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posted on May 31, 2001 11:09:12 AM new
well that's weird.....!! 
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NearTheSea
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posted on May 31, 2001 11:10:49 AM new
LOL Zazzie, see you got it
(I am constantly being corrected on the spelling of that word )
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kudzurose
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posted on May 31, 2001 11:43:03 AM new
When my youngest sister was about ten, we realized she thought the word mildew was "mule dew".
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pal
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posted on May 31, 2001 11:48:06 AM new
My little boy asked me if I was going to watch my "show popper." It took a minute and I realized he meant soap opera!
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dbsnd
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posted on May 31, 2001 11:49:22 AM new
While we were on the road to a Bluegrass Festival, my friend from Roadhiss NC was driving and we got pulled over. The CHP came up to the window and asked, "Do you have an I.D.?"
My friend responded, "About what officer?"
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xifene
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posted on May 31, 2001 12:17:15 PM new
I thought tuna was some kind of poultry until I was in college. I was making tuna casserole in the dorm kitchen -- someone walked in and said the room smelled like fish. I told them they were wrong, 'cause I was making tuna, not fish. I never lived that one down.
Later, I asked my mom for her recipe for french fries. It never occurred to me they were just cut up potatoes -- I thought it must involve dough somehow.
Can you tell I wasn't much of a cook?
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mark090
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posted on May 31, 2001 12:52:44 PM new
And did you know that "gullible" is not found in the dictionary?
And when you looked it up, did you see your picture next to the definition?
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mtnmama
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posted on May 31, 2001 12:58:26 PM new
As long as we're on kids (kinda) when mine were small they used to say "baby soup" for bathing suit. My son couldn't pronounce his v's until he was around 2. So everything with a v became a b .. as in glub (glove),olib (olive) and telebision (television).
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zilvy
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posted on May 31, 2001 01:00:13 PM new
kudzurose LOL that caught me by surprise...love it.
Do you have an I.D. also verrrry funny.
My little niece age 3 at the time, was a great one for using words as she "heard" them my favorite example: she was asking me to tell a story the way I used to ham it up...
so she said, "Aunty, tell me the story of Hoppity Bob, I want your VIRGIN of it, not the way the book says."
It did take me a while to simmer down enough to tell my virgin of it.
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uaru
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posted on May 31, 2001 01:11:12 PM new
My father told me one of his misunderstandings of a word when he was a kid. He was sitting at the table and is dad tells his mother the job isn't going well and it looked like he was going to be canned. My father had been to a canning factory and thought he knew what that meant. His mental image of the process being performed on his dad was distrubing. He tried to be brave about it as he saw mother just shake her head and say "if it happens it happens."
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mtnmama
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posted on May 31, 2001 01:57:45 PM new
uaru,
Reminds me of my son again. When he was around 5, our bookkeeper had to be terminated. We told the kids that Joanne was no longer with us. Daddy had to fire her. My son turned white as a ghost and his chin dropped to the floor. He started to cry and I told him not to worry, she'd get another job somewhere.
His major concern? Daddy set her on fire!
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sadie999
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posted on May 31, 2001 04:13:26 PM new
Lily Tomlin once said she thought she'd missed class the day they taught who Richard Stands was.
"...and to the republic for Richard Stands, one nation...."
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Shoshanah
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posted on May 31, 2001 04:58:35 PM new
Oh! Boy!....(giggle...) Shoefly for Shoo, Fly!..We did not learn those things in France....
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MrsSantaClaus
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posted on May 31, 2001 07:18:43 PM new
My little one's version of shut up
SHUB BUP
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thedewey
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posted on May 31, 2001 07:38:37 PM new
My sister recently bought a little kiddie swimming pool for her son (21 months old), and she set it up for him this past weekend.
Now all he talks about is his "wimmins pool". He puts the "S" at the end of "swimming", instead of the beginning!
I've been teasing her all week that maybe he really DID mean to say "women's pool" ... and maybe he wanted some little girls in bikinis to go swimming with him! LOL!
(For some strange reason, she didn't think too highly of that idea! ROFL!)
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kraftdinner
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posted on May 31, 2001 07:54:25 PM new
sadie999 - That's hilarious!!
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nettak
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posted on June 1, 2001 01:43:22 AM new
My 20 year old son still insists on calling a coat hanger, a cohanger. It does not matter how many times I tell him the correct name he always reverts back to cohanger.
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Shoshanah
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posted on June 1, 2001 09:08:29 AM new
Sad but true: I received a phone call from KAISER Hospital the other. The nice young lady informed me that I have a scheduled appointment with unoncology (????) next week....Perhaps, she meant enoncology could be less spooky than oncology....
And for THAT, I pay 229.00 monthly 
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bobbi355
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posted on June 1, 2001 09:11:10 AM new
When my now married daughter was 5 y/o, she noticed a varicose vein on the back of my leg. She asked, "Mommy, what is that?" I replied, "Oh, that's just a varicose vein", to which she replied, "I'd say it's VERY GROSS"!! I'll never forget that one.
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figmente
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posted on June 1, 2001 10:12:13 AM new
I know someone who says
"Six of one, a dozen of the other"
as the cliche to convey equivalence; have heard it so many times that I've pointed out the error; no improvement.
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mark090
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posted on June 1, 2001 10:48:31 AM new
One of the more commonly misquoted cliches ins "You can't have your cake and eat it too." But you can! You can have cake and eat it. But you can not "Eat your cake and have it too"
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tarisa
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posted on June 1, 2001 01:31:24 PM new
The one of most recent memory has to be thinking all my life it was a 'cardshark' and being startled to find out that it's a 'cardsharp'!! I still can't get used to that one....
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pal
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posted on June 1, 2001 01:35:18 PM new
I thought it was cardshark too! I just had to look it up in the dictionary. I'm in shock!
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keciaarm
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posted on June 2, 2001 09:02:18 PM new
Our Father who art in heaven, HOWARD be thy name......as stated by my 4 year old niece.
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immykidsmom
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posted on June 2, 2001 09:47:53 PM new
well, until "recenly" my Dad always said 'Tarkett' for the big department store with the red TARGET on the side of the building!
My ex ALWAYS said 'crouch' when he meant crotch........NOW STOP IT! We were often pruning trees! I asked him more than once to try to say it like this; 'craahhhchh" He'd work his lips and squint and say crowwwccchhhhhhhh!"
Aaarrrrggggggg! the one the ex said that made be go balistic though was 'idea'.............. he'd always say he had an 'ideer'! A what? An IDEER! He grew up in Oakland California, I blame a lot on that. Oh, and a big share of the blame goes to his mom, she went out of her way (it seemed) to declare somthing 'tastes good', except from her it came out 'ummmmmm! it tase-sus good!'.
Sadly I can't add any personal pronunciation problems as I always say everything koreklee.
Mom, font of all wisdom
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