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¿Question #5022?
puffinge: What is the word which, for a long time, you thought you knew what it meant, only to eventually find out that you had the meaning wrong all along?

ricardofo: pretend (in portuguese is close to pretender (in english 'to intend'). but pretend means in portuguese: fingir
MisterCranky: I don't really have a useful opinion on this, sorry.
Critical Mass: folderol
Woelf: "inflammable" - turns out it means "flammable"
pwilz: 'release' in the sense of our computer storage at work.
sekke: fuckingbird
gmonk: Love
theredwagoneer: delusion.... I thought it meant halucination.
ArikYa: god
ufemism: Love
cgund: "nonplussed" which now that I know what it means, I know people constantly use it wrong. It doesn't mean anything like "unimpressed", the way you prolly think. Look it up and you'll be surprised.
Kibbersdog: Witty
Hector Vortac: Sure there is, DHEK. How about 'discretion'?
DHEK: I don't think there's such a word like that for me.
aleo09: don't recall, if any at all.
Cmot Dribbler: Shemale :D
jaibrown: Herval - I thought that this was the correct word for a cheese-slice, only it turns out you have to be Scandinavian for that to be true, and I'm not, so it isn't, so it's cheese-slice and a portion of humble pie and ice cream...
Ebon Wendigo: Never had such an experience
Leo-T: dysteleological
dmomo: Embarrising question. Until I was 20, I thought momentarily meant "again and again in short intervals".
Dorque: Inconcievable.
mrbeankc: Inconceivable!
e.c.r.: perspacious
brainrob: Puffinge
Chris Page: Condone.
sourwyrm: have problems with affect/effect
Sheylon: Extemporaneously.
scriptorum: Why do I keep answering GeekQuestions when I can't remember any of the answers? I know there are a few words that fit the answer, but they elude me. Getting old, damn...
davebo: Ubiquitous
ssmooth: There have been numerous such words.
skrutsch: Someone told me that I had the phrase off-color wrong and I was surprised that I had used it wrong all my life, then I looked it up and discovered I was right. Also, ambivalent.
skelebone: For my wife it's cognizant, but think I misused egregious more than once.
chaddyboy_2000: I'm pretty sure that I orgasm all words.
Spielfreak: Inconceivable! ??
CDRodeffer: turgid
Lord_Prussian: Great question, I know it's happened to me, but can't think of a specific example right now.
Tushratta: inconceivable
puffinge: For many, many years I thought erstwhile meant loyal and true, as in erstwhile companion. Do you know what it really means?
Dave: "puffinge"
jttm: So many. But I blame it on the Oxford Dictionary conspiracy. Always changing meanings.
Randy Cox: greige