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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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link

don't think I mix anything up

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

kept calling psychiatrists psychologists

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

The and Teh

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

Shrinks covers it

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

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

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

paediatrics is the kiddly-fiddlers.

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

And paedophiles are foot fetishists, right I get it

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

i thought they were psychopaths?

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

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

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

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

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

John Updike }{ John Irving

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

Ha ha, that's great

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

arse
elbow

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

ethics/morals

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

ILX
work

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

Swamp Thing

Man Thing

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

Shetty

Poppadom

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

Shilpa Shetty
Talitha Getty

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

Bills Paxton and Pullman

OTM

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

YES.

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

me too.

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

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers / Jonathan Rhys-Davies

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

paxton/pullman is SO true!

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

Mel Gibson, Mel Brooks

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

well done

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

Uh, thanks?

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

Likewise:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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

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+ Werner Klemperer

― Jedi, I've got your number (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 13 August 2024 13:45 (two months ago) link

Amy Schneider
Amy Schumer

i just get Heiner Goebbels mixed up with Alfred "23" Harth

i guess that's not terribly surprising

― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 15 August 2024 22:45 (two months ago) link

Thela
Thuja

(RIP Dean Roberts)

― carry on columbine (Matt #2), Thursday, 15 August 2024 23:28 (two months ago) link

Amy Schumer
Amy Sedaris

― nickn, Friday, 16 August 2024 02:35 (one month ago) link

Jim Hall
Joe Pass

...especially after their duet record, Pass/Hall

― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 16 August 2024 03:18 (one month ago) link

Amy Schumer
Amy Sedaris

Ooof, Amy Sedaris does NOT deserve that.

― Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 16 August 2024 04:08 (one month ago) link

It's just the names! (And that they're each a blond comic of roughly the same age).

― nickn, Friday, 16 August 2024 07:24 (one month ago) link

Maria Konnikova
Maria Popova

― jaymc, Friday, 16 August 2024 12:25 (one month ago) link

Maybe it will help to learn Sedaris is 63 and Schumer is 43

― rob, Friday, 16 August 2024 12:52 (one month ago) link

Walt Whitman
Whit Stillman

― carry on columbine (Matt #2), Friday, 16 August 2024 17:12 (one month ago) link

Nelson Rockefeller
Norman Rockwell

― Élisabeth Vigée Lebron (Leee), Saturday, 17 August 2024 15:05 (one month ago) link

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 August 2024 21:53 (one month ago) link

DB Sweeney
DB Cooper

― Joanna Neu!some (Leee), Wednesday, 21 August 2024 22:43 (one month ago) link

Donald Sutherland
Christopher Plummer

― Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 24 August 2024 00:56 (one month ago) link

Jeff Lynne
Steve Wynn

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Saturday, 24 August 2024 14:05 (one month ago) link

Sepp van den Berg
Sander Berge

― carry on columbine (Matt #2), Saturday, 24 August 2024 14:14 (one month ago) link

Arvo Part
Arto Lindsay

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 24 August 2024 14:31 (one month ago) link

I once conflated Jeff Lynne with Dave Stewart

― Jedi, I've got your number (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 24 August 2024 14:48 (one month ago) link

Bill Mueller/Rich Aurilia. I did, just today.

― clemenza, Saturday, 24 August 2024 17:10 (one month ago) link

Something in the Air –Thunderclap Newman

For What It's Worth – Buffalo Springfield

― Alba, Friday, 30 August 2024 07:28 (one month ago) link

Yes!

― Madchen, Friday, 30 August 2024 07:40 (one month ago) link

yeah

― The Zing from Another URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 August 2024 13:24 (one month ago) link

The Holdovers
The Leftovers

― Alba, Saturday, 31 August 2024 08:16 (one month ago) link

Telegram
Signal

― Alba, Saturday, 31 August 2024 15:03 (one month ago) link

Xander Berkeley
Zander Schloss

probably because they both acted in Alex Cox films

― the deep cut is the firstest (Matt #2), Monday, 2 September 2024 02:35 (one month ago) link

Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Raleigh

― Oedipal Issues, Adipose Tissues (Leee), Thursday, 5 September 2024 14:44 (one month ago) link

Raleigh was a stupid get; Scott, I don't know.

― clemenza, Thursday, 5 September 2024 15:43 (one month ago) link

Parker Molloy
Molly Parker

― tempted by the food of your mother (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 6 September 2024 00:25 (one month ago) link

Raymond Chandler
Raymond Carver
John Cheever

And because of Chandler's detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett.

― Oedipal Issues, Adipose Tissues (Leee), Saturday, 7 September 2024 17:27 (one month ago) link

Nala Sinephro
Nilufer Yahya

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 8 September 2024 04:04 (one month ago) link

Marie Helvin
Marie Colvin

― Madchen, Sunday, 8 September 2024 06:07 (one month ago) link

Heard a radio ad for an Everclear show today...or Everlast. I used to get them confused then, still do, surprised they haven't been mentioned in this thread (maybe too obvious, or maybe they have and I missed it).

― clemenza, Sunday, 8 September 2024 20:18 (one month ago) link

Curt Boettcher
Budd Boetticher

― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 September 2024 16:44 (one month ago) link

Mel Stride
Pete Stride

Never mind, Mel. Back to The Lurkers, yeah?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 September 2024 16:50 (one month ago) link

Art Alexakis
Dexter Holland

I guess '90s alt-rock frontmen with X's in their names?

― Oedipal Issues, Adipose Tissues (Leee), Tuesday, 10 September 2024 17:23 (one month ago) link

I also have to take a minute to disambiguate Everclear/Everlast.

― Oedipal Issues, Adipose Tissues (Leee), Tuesday, 10 September 2024 17:24 (one month ago) link

French double-named pianist edition:

Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Marc-Andre Hamelin

But oddly never:
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

― O 'Tis Redding (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 18 September 2024 19:33 (three weeks ago) link

Gogol
Gorky

― pisspoor bung probe prog (Tom D.), Friday, 20 September 2024 10:21 (three weeks ago) link

I've read Dead Souls, which seems like a unique classic, and not read any Gorky. My only knowledge of Gorky is from reading about the Soviet Union and the unconfirmed rumours he was poisoned by NKVD agents for his earlier crimes of dissing the fuck out of Lenin and being good pals with Bukharin.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 20 September 2024 10:51 (three weeks ago) link

Madeline Kahn
Madleen Kane

― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 30 September 2024 18:30 (two weeks ago) link

Arthur Blythe
Arthur Doyle

― pisspoor bung probe prog (Tom D.), Monday, 30 September 2024 18:35 (two weeks ago) link

Todd Philips
Todd Solondz

― Bedrich Smetana's Ma Wife (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 3 October 2024 20:10 (one week ago) link

maldives
malvinas

― mark s, Friday, 4 October 2024 09:12 (one week ago) link

Maldives
Mauritius

Even though I work with lots of women from Mauritius.

― pisspoor bung probe prog (Tom D.), Friday, 4 October 2024 09:15 (one week ago) link

a related confusion i have not yet made: “The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, which is east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean… A white dodo was once thought to have existed on the nearby island of Réunion, but it is now believed that this assumption was merely confusion based on the also-extinct Réunion ibis and paintings of white dodos.”

― mark s, Friday, 4 October 2024 10:05 (one week ago) link

Chris Wallace
Chris Matthews

― cryptosicko, Monday, 14 October 2024 21:41 (yesterday) link

I think I recently told someone I took a class on Dorothy Parker when I meant Dorothy Sayers. Either would be an interesting class, mind you.

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 14 October 2024 21:42 (yesterday) link

They caught me off guard and it was 30 years ago, I might have grabbed at the wrong memory.

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 14 October 2024 21:42 (yesterday) link

Stewart Home
Steven Wells

― the nervous laughter of fools (Matt #2), Tuesday, 15 October 2024 00:01 (seven hours ago) link

jimmy kimmel
jimmy fallon

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 01:49 (five hours ago) link

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