What was the dumbest misunderstanding you had as a kid about something you read

cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – -14 points –

I thought in Harry Potter when they "sacked" Professor Dumbledore that they twisted his nutsack AND then fired/expelled him.

Suffice it to say, Chamber was far more dramatic and high-stakes for me than it needed to be.

Let's go, come clean Lemmingz

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I thought the word faucet was both pulled and pronounced flaucet until I was 18. Nobody ever called me on it for some reason.

I chalk it up to dyslexia and the infrequency of encountering the word.

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