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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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link

don't think I mix anything up

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

kept calling psychiatrists psychologists

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

The and Teh

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

Shrinks covers it

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

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

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

paediatrics is the kiddly-fiddlers.

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

And paedophiles are foot fetishists, right I get it

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

i thought they were psychopaths?

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

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

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

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

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

John Updike }{ John Irving

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

Ha ha, that's great

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

arse
elbow

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

ethics/morals

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

ILX
work

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

Swamp Thing

Man Thing

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

Shetty

Poppadom

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

Shilpa Shetty
Talitha Getty

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

Bills Paxton and Pullman

OTM

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

YES.

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

me too.

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

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers / Jonathan Rhys-Davies

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

paxton/pullman is SO true!

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

Mel Gibson, Mel Brooks

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

well done

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

Uh, thanks?

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

Likewise:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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

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The Birthday Party
The Wedding Present

― peace, man, Monday, 14 December 2020 14:47 (one month ago) link

^^ yes!

― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 14 December 2020 14:49 (one month ago) link

Anthony Shaffer
Peter Shaffer

^this

― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 December 2020 15:23 (one month ago) link

Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Heaton

idk why. they aren't the same age, they don't look alike, they're very diff pepole, yet for years I kept hearing one's name and expecting to see the other.

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 December 2020 15:25 (one month ago) link

Really sometimes it is just about the similarity of the names, isn't it?

― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 December 2020 15:31 (one month ago) link

mint condition
new edition

― budo jeru, Monday, 21 December 2020 12:44 (three weeks ago) link

Lolleatta Holloway
Lalah Hathaway

― Briania, Monday, 21 December 2020 13:36 (three weeks ago) link

See it has been mentioned before, but:

Rooney Mara
Sally Rooney

(and Wayne Rooney)

― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 21 December 2020 13:55 (three weeks ago) link

Rooney Mara / Kate Mara, another perennial

― coup coup kajoo (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 21 December 2020 16:24 (three weeks ago) link

Kate O'Mara

― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Monday, 21 December 2020 16:28 (three weeks ago) link

Dan I
Dan S

But not dan m.

― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 15:06 (three weeks ago) link

Oof, yeah

― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 15:09 (three weeks ago) link

Lol yes

― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 18:02 (three weeks ago) link

Adam Corolla
Adam Conover

booo

― huge rant (sic), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 21:51 (three weeks ago) link

Sponge
Spoon
Sugar

― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 00:38 (three weeks ago) link

the bands or the objects?

― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 00:41 (three weeks ago) link

quidditch
water polo

― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 00:42 (three weeks ago) link

One has brooms

― coup coup kajoo (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 02:07 (three weeks ago) link

quidditch
curling

― that heat (Matt #2), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 02:11 (three weeks ago) link

Trolling
Punning

― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 02:12 (three weeks ago) link

curling
hurling
bobsled
the other insane ice sled thing

― brimstead, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 02:18 (three weeks ago) link

you talkin' bout de luge?

― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 02:21 (three weeks ago) link

Moses
supposes

― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 02:23 (three weeks ago) link

First, legit lolz for Matt #2

Second, skeleton may be insaner than luge

Two-man luge is the silliest tho

― coup coup kajoo (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 12:53 (three weeks ago) link

AMG (All Music Guide)
AMG (Angry Metal Guy)

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 15:15 (three weeks ago) link

Dan I
Dan S
But not dan m.

There's a Dan.S. now too

― huge rant (sic), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 21:55 (three weeks ago) link

Anton Fier
Anton Fig

― why can't they dance to Holdsworth? (Matt #2), Friday, 25 December 2020 21:54 (three weeks ago) link

That wasn't done already?

― And Then There’s Maudit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 December 2020 22:08 (three weeks ago) link

Guess not. Good on ya.

― And Then There’s Maudit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 December 2020 22:09 (three weeks ago) link

Ctrl-f said no

― why can't they dance to Holdsworth? (Matt #2), Friday, 25 December 2020 22:56 (three weeks ago) link

Ben Sasse
Josh Hawley

― Sam Weller, Thursday, 31 December 2020 20:02 (two weeks ago) link

Every GOP congressman under the age of 55

― ✖, Friday, 1 January 2021 01:13 (two weeks ago) link

Every GOP congressman over the age of 55

― ✖, Friday, 1 January 2021 01:13 (two weeks ago) link

(Don) Dokken
(Kip) Winger

― Telly Salivas (Old Lunch), Monday, 4 January 2021 17:44 (one week ago) link

Nathan Lane
Anthony Lane

I'm surprised I haven't already posted that

― cilantro vs. wade (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 4 January 2021 17:56 (one week ago) link

And a close relative is

Wallace Shawn
William Shawn

― cilantro vs. wade (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 4 January 2021 17:58 (one week ago) link

Yes, they are close relatives.

― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Monday, 4 January 2021 18:03 (one week ago) link

yeah i know!

doesn't make it easier when I'm trying to figure out which of those four is which

in both pairs, one is mainly a writer and the other mainly an actor, but there are exceptions

― cilantro vs. wade (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 4 January 2021 18:07 (one week ago) link

Wallace Shawn would probably tell you he’s a writer who acts for money.

― is right unfortunately (silby), Monday, 4 January 2021 20:48 (one week ago) link

Robert Downey Jr.
Morton Downey Jr.

― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 16:42 (one week ago) link

Baby Please Don't Go
Baby What You Want Me to Do

― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 17:12 (one week ago) link

Lost in Your Eyes
Eternal Flame

― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 18:13 (one week ago) link

Wilfred Bramble
Wilford Brimley

― Noel Emits, Friday, 8 January 2021 18:18 (one week ago) link

from the semi-obscure octogenarian actress dept:

Antoinette Bower
Anjanette Comer

― Josefa, Friday, 8 January 2021 18:43 (one week ago) link

Wilfrid Brambell in The Thing would have been something to see.

― fish quits shock (Matt #2), Friday, 8 January 2021 18:52 (one week ago) link

Fran Lebowitz
Annie Liebovitz

In fact, I think I am only just now putting together that these are two different people, seeing the thread about the former at the top of SNA. in as much as I thought about it at all, I always thought the famous photographer happened to dabble in cultural criticism on the side.

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 8 January 2021 18:53 (one week ago) link

not 100% on all fours with this thread, but I just realized that all these years I thought the members of the KLF (a group I never paid much attention to) were black, and that the people I had been picturing were actually PM Dawn

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 11 January 2021 02:50 (six days ago) link

Erick and Parish making dawn are gonna rock ya

― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 11 January 2021 02:55 (six days ago) link

Peter Riegert/Paul Reiser

― The Pickety 33⅓ Policeman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, May 27, 2017 4:54 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 02:56 (four days ago) link

Dr Harold Shipman
Professor David Kelly

― Ole Blueyes Solskjaer (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 03:20 (four days ago) link

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