Things you learned in English class...

...that turned out to be bullshit in real life.

My teacher always told us that:

*Things don't happen at night, they happen by night
*You don't live a life, you lead a life

While you can lead a life by night, I've learned that most native English speakers (especially Americans) would live a life at night instead.

What other things not completely in touch with reality did you learn in your English/any other language classes?

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Ah, the notorious ghoti example. What makes it idiotic is that

a) gh is never pronounced as an f at the beginning of a word
b) the o in "women" being pronounced as an i is a pretty isolated case - an o is an o in normal English
c) ti can only be pronounced as a ʃ sound when it comes before a vowel in certain suffixes

Thus what you really get is a word pronounced not unlike "goatee".