Living with Turk-glish: "collection"

A conversation we had tonight:


Me: "What are you doing?"
Him: "I'm going to put these bills in my collection."
Me: "Your what?"
Him: "My collection. I have a collection of bills that I pay."


What he meant was that he keeps the bills that he pays together for future reference.


Its funny the way words get used in the 'wrong' way, but still make sense...