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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

Arpeggio (sequence of notes)

Archipeligo (sequence of islands)

I always try to combine them.

Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:29 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

don't think I mix anything up

RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:31 (sixteen years ago) link

kept calling psychiatrists psychologists

vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:32 (sixteen years ago) link

The and Teh

Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:33 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

Shrinks covers it

Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:35 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:37 (sixteen years ago) link

paediatrics is the kiddly-fiddlers.

the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:39 (sixteen years ago) link

And paedophiles are foot fetishists, right I get it

Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:39 (sixteen years ago) link

i thought they were psychopaths?

vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:40 (sixteen years ago) link

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

vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:41 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:41 (sixteen years ago) link

John Updike }{ John Irving

Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:59 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Anna (Anna), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:00 (sixteen years ago) link

Ha ha, that's great

Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:01 (sixteen years ago) link

arse
elbow

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link

ethics/morals

the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:11 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

ILX
work

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:03 (sixteen years ago) link

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

but even more recently
jar-bottle

AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:04 (sixteen years ago) link

Swamp Thing

Man Thing

Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:15 (sixteen years ago) link

Shetty

Poppadom

Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link

Shilpa Shetty
Talitha Getty

Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link

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

g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:26 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

Bills Paxton and Pullman

OTM

Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link

YES.

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:33 (sixteen years ago) link

me too.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers / Jonathan Rhys-Davies

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link

paxton/pullman is SO true!

the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

Mel Gibson, Mel Brooks

wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link

the correct spelling & the incorrect spelling

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

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 (sixteen years ago) link

well done

RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link

Uh, thanks?

chap (chap), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

Likewise:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

NickB (NickB), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link

Who would it be fair to say the Clientele are like?

Alba, Thursday, 7 September 2023 06:42 (two weeks ago) link

to me they sound like Acetone or maybe Luna

budo jeru, Thursday, 7 September 2023 15:31 (two weeks ago) link

I feel like the older I get, the more I post on this thread. Anyway,

Alison Goldfrapp
Roísín Murphy

Madchen, Thursday, 7 September 2023 19:27 (two weeks ago) link

Madchen at 1:39 7 Sep 23

Also not much like the Clientele tbh!


no i mean i got the clientele mixed up with camera obscura. i have heard camera obscure but not the clientele.

jaymc, Thursday, 7 September 2023 19:36 (two weeks ago) link

Isn't there an act called Client (Sarah Blackwood's post-Dubstar gig)?

The Banshees of Ed Sheeran (Leee), Friday, 8 September 2023 03:17 (two weeks ago) link

Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Fallon

I could study their work in seclusion for a year and still wouldn't remember which one is which.

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 8 September 2023 11:36 (two weeks ago) link

I think I know what Jimmy Fallon looks like at least but, other than that...

Monthly Python (Tom D.), Friday, 8 September 2023 11:47 (two weeks ago) link

Having checked it out, Jimmy Fallon is the one I really want to slap and Jimmy Kimmel is the one who always looks like he wants to cry. this info will leave my head in the next 10 minutes.

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 8 September 2023 11:50 (two weeks ago) link

Lou Adler
Lou Reizner

Monthly Python (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 September 2023 10:52 (two weeks ago) link

Sarah Jane
Sarah Lucas

Monthly Python (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 September 2023 15:56 (two weeks ago) link

... that should be Sarah Kane!

Monthly Python (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 September 2023 16:20 (two weeks ago) link

AEDs
IEDs

don't ask me to help if you have a heart attack, is what i'm saying

Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 13:50 (one week ago) link

And then there's IUDs. It's a minefield.

Alba, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:31 (one week ago) link

And the aedes mosquito, the current scourge of Southern California.

nickn, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 16:40 (one week ago) link

Rob Ford
Doug Ford

MarkoP, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 16:51 (one week ago) link

I've only seen the grave of one of them

Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 17:18 (one week ago) link

Spin Doctors
Blues Traveler

budo jeru, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 20:50 (one week ago) link

somehow i thought i'd done this before

CCR rhythm section: Stu Cook, Doug Clifford

AC/DC rhtyhm section: Cliff Williams, Phil Rudd

budo jeru, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 15:55 (one week ago) link

Hit 1933 musical film 42nd Street has actor Powell and actress Keeler.
Hit 1954 musical film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers has actor Keel and actress Powell.

anatol_merklich, Thursday, 14 September 2023 23:48 (one week ago) link

Also – my defence is that these periodicals haven't traditionally turned up where I live – the shared initials have made me conflate

The New Republic
National Review

anatol_merklich, Thursday, 14 September 2023 23:52 (one week ago) link

doxxing
catfishing

Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 14 September 2023 23:55 (one week ago) link

Shawn Fain
Sinn Féin

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 15 September 2023 19:55 (one week ago) link

Right wondered if anybody had commented on that. Keep hearing the name. Is a bit like hearing about a labour leader called Libdem or Labour Party or Tory Twat. Though obviously not with the same political connotations. Not sure you hear the party name any where near as much on the radio

Stevo, Saturday, 16 September 2023 11:20 (one week ago) link

Naomi Klein has written a book called Doppleganger about people getting her confused with Naomi Wolf and the rather tragic consequences of this

Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Saturday, 16 September 2023 12:12 (one week ago) link

She was on something I listened to yesterday talking about it.& how the other Naomi had become a Gannon fangirl who appeared on his show etc etc

Stevo, Saturday, 16 September 2023 17:59 (one week ago) link

Yan Cook
Yan Can Cook

I didn't realize till today that Stephen Yan (host of Wok With Yan) and Michael Yan (host of Yan Can Cook) were two different cooks.

Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 16 September 2023 20:26 (one week ago) link

HK action star Tony Leung Ka-fai, aka "Big Tony"
HK action star Tony Leung Chiu-wai, aka "Little Tony"

the arkansas ruggerclub (Matt #2), Saturday, 16 September 2023 21:01 (one week ago) link

I think clientele and belle and sebastian was a fair comparison, at least, if you limit it to their first few years of existence. B&S morphed into something much different over time.

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 16 September 2023 23:27 (one week ago) link

national review/republic trips me up every time. I could not tell you which is which without looking it up even now.

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 16 September 2023 23:28 (one week ago) link

just use this handy mnemonic

The New RepubLippmann
The National RevieWilliam F. Buckley

budo jeru, Sunday, 17 September 2023 06:10 (one week ago) link

Russell Brand
Stewart Brand

I Wanna Find an ILXor That'll Flag My Last Post Till I Have To Go (WmC), Monday, 18 September 2023 20:14 (six days ago) link

After four years, I finally got around to watching Joker. This whole time I had mixed up Todd Phillips with Todd Solondz.

peace, man, Friday, 22 September 2023 00:43 (two days ago) link

I apparently can't tell the difference between A Flock of Seagulls and Grateful Dead. I was at a bar and the song on the sound system I thought was "I Ran" turned out to be "Touch of Grey". And I wasn't the only one to be momentarily confused!

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 22 September 2023 02:29 (two days ago) link

Daniel Jones
Mac Jones

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 September 2023 03:13 (two days ago) link

you needn't bother

mookieproof, Friday, 22 September 2023 03:42 (two days ago) link

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Sarah Mary Chadwick

mookieproof, Friday, 22 September 2023 04:41 (two days ago) link

Jim Breuer
Jim Caviezel

peace, man, Friday, 22 September 2023 13:41 (two days ago) link

I was at a bar and the song on the sound system I thought was "I Ran" turned out to be "Touch of Grey".

They both use the same IV - V chord changes!

Halfway there but for you, Friday, 22 September 2023 14:43 (two days ago) link

Bohemian Grove and Dimes Square.

Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 23 September 2023 08:46 (yesterday) link

William Gass
Wallace Stegner
William Styron

Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee), Saturday, 23 September 2023 14:06 (yesterday) link

Shackleton
Capleton

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 23 September 2023 14:09 (yesterday) link

Leee, you appear to be omitting William Gaddis. William Gass / William Gaddis conflation was already an in-joke in 1992 (when Gass playfully poked fun at the conflation).

I can see why; they were operating in similar literary spaces.

Not true of Stegner (a Western voice) or Styron (a Southern voice, almost as Southern as Faulkner).

To be honest I spent so much time with these guys... I kinda wish I had been doing something else. Like, almost anything else.

Pointless anecdote: On my last day of college I happened to get into an an elevator with my favorite professor. I told him about what I was interested in doing for graduate school. He said, "That's a very crowded field. You should be doing Anglo-Saxon."

Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 23 September 2023 15:19 (yesterday) link

As a westerner, I find Stegner to be one of the west's most authentic voices.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 23 September 2023 16:44 (yesterday) link

Jimbeaux, do you have Cormac McCarthy ist opinions?

Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 23 September 2023 16:45 (yesterday) link

I loved Suttree (which is of course much more Southern than Western), liked All the Pretty Horses, and couldn't make it through The Crossing. That is the extent of my encounters with McCarthy. My brother (who gave me the Border Trilogy) adores him.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 23 September 2023 16:47 (yesterday) link

Suttree stays in my mind almost constantly, but yeah you are right. It's a Southern novel.

Personally I was born in Missouri and live in Virginia so can really only understand Midwestern, Southern, and Eastern vibes. The American West is a mystery to me so Stegner is not really on my radar screen.

Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 23 September 2023 16:54 (yesterday) link

When I read Angle of Repose, I immediately recognized the narrator as my people.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 23 September 2023 17:14 (yesterday) link

I left out Gaddis because he's the only one I've read!

Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee), Saturday, 23 September 2023 18:54 (yesterday) link

Honestly, up until this season at least, I got Corey Seagar and Trea Turner mixed up all the time. And Seager is indeed Turner's #1 on Baseball Reference's Similarity Score (913.4), although it doesn't quite work in reverse.

clemenza, Saturday, 23 September 2023 19:05 (yesterday) link

Jim Breuer
Jim Caviezel


This one made me laugh. Imagining the star of “How High” playing Jesus or that Underground Railroad guy

deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 23 September 2023 19:20 (yesterday) link


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