Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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are there any pairs of words or names that you always confuse with one another?

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

I always confuse

Caravaggio - sixteenth century Italian painter

with

Carluccio - an Italian café an deli chain (the interior of the Oxford one was designed by my cousin)

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:27 (6 years ago) Permalink

Arpeggio (sequence of notes)

Archipeligo (sequence of islands)

I always try to combine them.

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

Barry Andrews - KBd man w/ XTC
Barry Adamson - wrote pseudo soundtracks for so long, they asked him to do it for real.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

The names Emma and Claire

The MS Excel icon and the MS Outlook icon

The order of the alphabet between H and M

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

My very elderly grandmother used to confuse "pelmet" and "pelvis", causing hilarity in the curtain shop.

― C J (C J), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

don't think I mix anything up

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

kept calling psychiatrists psychologists

― vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

The and Teh

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:33 (6 years ago) Permalink

kept calling psychiatrists psychologists
-- vita susicivus (n...), January 19th, 2007.

i just say "psychoanalysts-psychiatrists-phychologists" cos i never know what i mean.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

Shrinks covers it

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

Oh, that's easy for me. There's the one-that-gives-me-pills (psychiatrist) and the one that just talks-a-lot-of-bollocks (psychologist) - but if you've never had either, I can understand the confusion.

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

Juoda and syödä! They mean TO DRINK and TO EAT in Finnish but I always get them confused and thus told my teacher that I drink a lot of meat. This is the sort of thing we learn in class. Hmm.

In English I confuse Brighton and Bristol more than I should.

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

Paediatrics and the feet one... or is paediatrics the feet one?

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

paediatrics is the kiddly-fiddlers.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

And paedophiles are foot fetishists, right I get it

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

i thought they were psychopaths?

― vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

psychopathologist: studies diseases, so he can give them to you

― vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:41 (6 years ago) Permalink

That's areas set aside for the riding of bicycles (xp)

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:41 (6 years ago) Permalink

John Updike }{ John Irving

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

I did describe someone as behaving as though they were suffering from Stockhausen Syndrome.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

Ha ha, that's great

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

arse
elbow

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

ethics/morals

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

the numbers 4 and 7 in sequences of numbers, for instance a padlock or a memorable date.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

ILX
work

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

when i was a kid:
bagels-donuts
muffins-cupcakes

but even more recently
jar-bottle

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

Swamp Thing

Man Thing

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

Shetty

Poppadom

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

Shilpa Shetty
Talitha Getty

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

Bills Paxton and Pullman
Until recently: Cormac McCarthy and Carson McCullers
Red and green, apparently

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

Will Ferrell
Colin Ferrell
Colin Firth

...are all the same person, as far as I'm concerned.

Also Jeremy Paxman and Jeremy Clarkson, as discussed before.

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

Bills Paxton and Pullman

OTM

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

YES.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:33 (6 years ago) Permalink

me too.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

Oh and also!

(and this is distressing, because I love MLP)

Mary Louise Parker and Mary Stuart Masterson

I blame Fried Green Tomatoes.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

Swamp Thing
Man Thing

This is the only pair in the list that I confuse too.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers / Jonathan Rhys-Davies

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

paxton/pullman is SO true!

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

Jonathans Lethem and Franzen, although as so much now that I've actually read some Lethem.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

I sometimes get the Dimbleby brothers mixed up.

The Attenboroughs as well, come to think of it.

But never the McWhirters, despite them being twins.

― onimo (onimo), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

having a final exam in a course i've been blowing off all term and don't even know the location of : dreaming

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

Oh, I've got one of my own now: Ted Nugent & Todd Rundgren. I had to google to check that the guy who's a racist is not the same person as the guy who had a feud with the Lennons, and in the time it took me to write this I have already forgotten which is which.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

Mel Gibson, Mel Brooks

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

the correct spelling & the incorrect spelling

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:41 (6 years ago) Permalink

For years thought Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis were the same person, and I still don't know which is which.

― chap (chap), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

well done

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

Uh, thanks?

― chap (chap), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

Not in terms of what/who they are, but when attempting to speak:

Wittgenstein/Wittenberg
Flann O'Brien/Flannery O'Connor

And more that I've forgotten...

― emil.y (emil.y), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

Likewise:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

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Dan Chaon
Dan Chiasson

― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 14:53 (8 months ago) Permalink

I saw Richard Madeline the other day and said to my friend "hey look isn't that Tony Wilson?"

always get those mixed, even though one of them is dead.

― PSOD (Ste), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 14:58 (8 months ago) Permalink

― ledge, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 14:28 (8 months ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

Almost went got a ticket to see Ed Kowalczyk before I realized he wasn't Mark Kozelek

― a pizza-based environment (los blue jeans), Saturday, 10 November 2012 18:58 (7 months ago) Permalink

Bruno Mars/Jason Miraz/Olly Murs

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 19 November 2012 00:28 (7 months ago) Permalink

Denys Arcand
Jacques Audiard

― Jake Roo (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 20:27 (6 months ago) Permalink

Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Daisy von Furth

― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 12:54 (6 months ago) Permalink

Bangor/Bangor/Bangalore

Never knew whether The Beatles, Mike Love and the weirdos were in Maine, Wales or India.

― Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:00 (6 months ago) Permalink

St3ve Go1db3rg
Steve Hoffman

― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 6 December 2012 12:14 (6 months ago) Permalink

Bangor/Bangor/Bangalore
Never knew whether The Beatles, Mike Love and the weirdos were in Maine, Wales or India.
― Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:00 (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Or Northern Ireland

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Thursday, 6 December 2012 12:16 (6 months ago) Permalink

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 20:15 (6 months ago) Permalink

Mowgli & mogwai

― MrDasher, Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:15 (6 months ago) Permalink

Mike Cooper / Michael Chapman

(convinced there's another 60s folk/blues maverick who also gets mixed up ... and I don't mean Michael Hurley)

― Tom D is secretly an important person (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:21 (6 months ago) Permalink

Natalie Portman and Keira Knightly. i cant tell them apart.

― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Thursday, 13 December 2012 18:59 (6 months ago) Permalink

Chris de Burgh
Chris Rhea
Chris Isaak

― emil.y, Sunday, 16 December 2012 21:43 (6 months ago) Permalink

Vision of Trees
Voices From The Lake
Vessel

― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Monday, 17 December 2012 10:16 (6 months ago) Permalink

Jimmy Page
Robert Plant

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 21 December 2012 18:22 (5 months ago) Permalink

Whaaaaaat...

― pplains, Friday, 21 December 2012 18:37 (5 months ago) Permalink

ik,r...

Not total mixuppage, but usually I have to hesitate for a second to make sure I'm not thinking of the other one:
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Anne Sofie von Otter

― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 22 December 2012 23:37 (5 months ago) Permalink

The Residents
The Replacements

― Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Sunday, 23 December 2012 03:58 (5 months ago) Permalink

^ oh I always get those two mixed up too!

― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 18:37 (5 months ago) Permalink

If that is indeed the case, I think you should remove the Eyeball from your screenname

― Rastaquouere Vibration (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 19:03 (5 months ago) Permalink

Dolph Lundgren
Rutger Hauer

― epistantophus, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 19:03 (5 months ago) Permalink

^^^^

― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 19:36 (5 months ago) Permalink

Black Heart Procession
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

― how's life, Friday, 4 January 2013 20:08 (5 months ago) Permalink

Watching Dr. No the other night, I realized that Ursula Andress, Elke Sommer, and Britt Ekland kind of merge into one person for me.

― clemenza, Friday, 4 January 2013 20:23 (5 months ago) Permalink

Apparently I get Kenny Loggins mixed up with Kenny Rogers. Perfectly understandable, really.

― Aimless, Friday, 4 January 2013 21:11 (5 months ago) Permalink

when I finally got around to separating Britt Ekland and Bo Derek I realised that I don't really know who Bo Derek is.

― Merdeyeux, Friday, 4 January 2013 21:20 (5 months ago) Permalink

Pauline Oliveros
Iannis Xenakis

― 1.5GB of audio-destroying fluff (los blue jeans), Sunday, 6 January 2013 21:10 (5 months ago) Permalink

nilmar honorato da silva
nakhchivan

― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 January 2013 22:37 (5 months ago) Permalink

yeah

― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 6 January 2013 23:54 (5 months ago) Permalink

i used to get djmartian and dj mencap confused

not the posters as such cuz there is more than a rizla between those two, but yeah definitely the names

― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 6 January 2013 23:55 (5 months ago) Permalink

man this weekend i got concupiscence and callipygous mixed up; i told my friend "there is totally a word for a big great ass, it's con... cahhhh.... concupiscence, look it up!" she did and it just means "kind of slutty." i wasn't trying to be mean!

― ehkarl, Monday, 7 January 2013 00:22 (5 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

― naadje draadje (unregistered), Monday, 21 January 2013 13:39 (4 months ago) Permalink

Mika Vainio
Mykki Blanco

― Bill Goldberg Variations (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 26 January 2013 18:41 (4 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Petraeus
Pistorius

― how's life, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:59 (3 months ago) Permalink

Conclaves and enclaves.

― Madchen, Monday, 4 March 2013 10:57 (3 months ago) Permalink

Enclaves and exclaves.

Especially since one of those can also be the other.

― pplains, Monday, 4 March 2013 14:18 (3 months ago) Permalink

Whenever I see the name Townes Van Zandt - whose music I have never consciously listened to - I have to remind myself that it's not Captain Beefheart.

― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 4 March 2013 14:23 (3 months ago) Permalink

just remembered a while back I used to confuse Dirty Projectors and New Pornographers

― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 11 March 2013 01:51 (3 months ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

Joan Bakewell, Polly Toynbee and Nancy Banks-Smith.

― Madchen, Saturday, 6 April 2013 09:47 (2 months ago) Permalink

Hinge & Bracket and the Hairy Bikers

― OutdoorFish, Saturday, 6 April 2013 18:34 (2 months ago) Permalink

Rebecca West & Rose West - this is quite a bad one.

― Eyeball Kicks, Sunday, 7 April 2013 21:54 (2 months ago) Permalink

don weiner/bill magill

― What About The Half That's Never Been POLLed (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 April 2013 22:41 (1 month ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

neon indian/fuck buttons

― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Monday, 6 May 2013 15:54 (1 month ago) Permalink

hilary spurling/francis spufford

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 6 May 2013 18:19 (1 month ago) Permalink

Jimmy Ienner/Jimmy Iovine

― Retreat from the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 04:01 (1 month ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Jen Kirkman / Julie Klausner

― ZOT (los blue jeans), Friday, 7 June 2013 00:24 (1 week ago) Permalink

Until 2 minutes ago, I thought that Jeff Lynne was famous for, in reverse chronological order, producing The Beatles' Anthology singles in the 1990s, being part of the Traveling Wilburys in the 1980s, and in the 1970s recording a musical version of War of the Worlds.

― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 7 June 2013 14:51 (1 week ago) Permalink

For some reason today I mixed up Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Fassbender.

― epistantophus, Thursday, 13 June 2013 04:22 (6 days ago) Permalink

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