Have you ever used a word thinking you knew what it meant, but didn't?

When I was about 3-4 y/o I picked up on the word ignorant.
To my tiny little self this word sounded like it meant 'angry'.
So when I would get mad I would adamantly exclaim "you're making me ignorant!'
To which all the grownups would laugh .....which only made me more angry, aka ignorant 😂

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bijouxbroussard · F

I learned to read at age three. When I read words that I had never heard spoken before, I sounded them out—with hilarious results.

My mother said once when the neighbor boys, twins, were running around in our backyard, knocking things over, she heard me scolding them:

"Stop ! This is anarchie (anarchy) !”
I was about four.