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?

>>21
Except that we do, which is why this example is complete nonsense. I'm sure a motivated person could invent thousands of words whose English pronunciation is ambiguous, but this particular word is a counterexample, for crying out loud. Consistent English pronunciation rules make the proposed pronunciation impossible, and on top of that, it only has one possible pronunciation.

>>24
But reed, read, they all sound like "rwid" with that typical bent-tongue R
Wut. Silly foreigner can't tell r and w apart.