Do You Know These Common Misconceptions?

cdowdy aks, SO DO I. THERE WAS NO HAPPY ENDING FOR THEY DID NOT LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER.

If Columbus sailed to Caribbean Islands, then he sailed to North America, since those islands are part of Noth America, sitting on the same continental shelf as the mainland.

While some of the explanation is true, "ye" actually was used in Elizabethan English, if not Old English.

Janine Scheuber, i agree

I still think Romeo & Juliet as a tragic 🥰

Alan Conyard, O Come, All Ye Faithful

Can't say anything about it

Don't think so, Reina.

Repeated too many times.

Useful information, But I doubt it will stop some writers ( would be comics) from using ‘ ye” in references to historical events.

Thanks for nice variety of Info.

Steve Tingle, Except that we live in a more modern world now, and understand that, even though it was accepted at the time, doesn't mean that we shouldn't look at the continuing effects of more recent (hundreds of years) colonization on indigenous peoples who still exist around the world.

Marienne Litolff, I thought it was Arte Johnson in Laugh-in. Schultz's primary catch phrase was, "I know nothing!" But he could have said "Verrry interesting," too.

Shelley Durocher, Sorry. Apologies. I didn't read your comment well enough. You are correct.

buhlemann, Nope. This is why they are called "common misconceptions."