What did you learn at an embarrassingly late age? 21 penny drops
12.
I thought the phrase “dawned on me” was “don-donned me” until I was like 29.
vicshat
13.
That Yosemite is pronounced “yo-sem-ity” and not “yo-zmite”.
OctopussQueen
14.
As a kid my uncle would play this joke where he would put his hand on your head and make like a jellyfish squeezing your head a little, and say “this is a brainsucker, know what it’s doing? Starving!”
I would always laugh but did not get it until I was like 25.
patinaYouUgly
15.
The meaning of birthday suit. I was 26 at the time.
the_meat_n_potatoes
16.
Until i was 19 and away at college i did not know that milk curdles or bread molded. I grew up in a family of 8 and we went through that stuff so fast.
Trugem6
17.
That the little piggy going to market wasn’t going fucking shopping.
I was 50.
dramboxf
18.
Prima Donna is not Pre Madonna.
iremovebrains
19.
5 years into my career as a consultant I called a “Venn Diagram” a “Sven Diagram” with a customer. They corrected me and joked that the diagram isn’t Norwegian or something… Oops.
sublinear
20.
That the dangly thing in my throat isn’t the tonsils. Learnt that at about age 30.
tillie_jayne
21.
Oh this question was meant for me.
I was 16 years old when I learned “flooriting” was not a word.
I grew up watching a LOT of SpongeBob and it was my favorite show. In the show, SpongeBob always fails his driving test because he will always “floor it” instead of driving slowly. When I was little I thought that “floorit” was a single word that meant to go fast and always assumed that someone could be “flooriting” or going very fast.
Fast forward to driving school. I’m in the car with the instructor and another student. I’m driving slowly on the highway and someone aggressively passes me. I made some nervous comment like “man, he’s really flooriting!” And the car just gets really quiet for a second. Then the other student in the car goes, “flooriting? What?”
And that’s when I realized. It all crashed down on me at once. FLOOR IT. It was two different words. It meant putting the gas pedal on the floor. I was shook. I kinda gasped and couldn’t even respond because I was overwhelmed.
It’s been 8 years and I still have never had such a strong, sudden realization of anything. And secretly I still kinda use “flooriting” in my head sometimes.
greenoctopusink
BONUS
u/hidingmyanxiety had this geographical confession.
Last year, I just got to know that United Kingdom includes a few countries, not just England. 😐
It’s okay – there are MPs in Westminster who haven’t learnt this yet.
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