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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) Permalink

don't think I mix anything up

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

kept calling psychiatrists psychologists

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

The and Teh

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

Shrinks covers it

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

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

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

paediatrics is the kiddly-fiddlers.

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

And paedophiles are foot fetishists, right I get it

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

i thought they were psychopaths?

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

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

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

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

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

John Updike }{ John Irving

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

Ha ha, that's great

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

arse
elbow

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

ethics/morals

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

ILX
work

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

Swamp Thing

Man Thing

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

Shetty

Poppadom

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

Shilpa Shetty
Talitha Getty

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

Bills Paxton and Pullman

OTM

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

YES.

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

me too.

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

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers / Jonathan Rhys-Davies

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

paxton/pullman is SO true!

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

Mel Gibson, Mel Brooks

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

well done

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

Uh, thanks?

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

Likewise:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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

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Every town I go in
There is a street

― Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 July 2018 02:03 (three months ago) Permalink

the late power pop godfather Tommy Hoehn
the late power pop godfather Tommy Keene

― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 00:41 (three months ago) Permalink

Craig Sheffer
Craig Wasson

― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Thursday, 19 July 2018 18:45 (three months ago) Permalink

Bob Welch
Bob Weir

Jason Schwartzman
Jason Bateman

― MarkoP, Saturday, 21 July 2018 19:04 (three months ago) Permalink

^ otm on the Jasons.

― Chase Knobbe? Have you Courtney Cox? (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 July 2018 19:09 (three months ago) Permalink

Jason Sudekis

― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 21 July 2018 22:11 (three months ago) Permalink

Damrosch Bandshell/Naumburg Bandshell

― 3-Way Tie (For James Last) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 July 2018 03:03 (two months ago) Permalink

Tim Hecker
Tim Heidecker

― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 17:52 (two months ago) Permalink

Hal Roach
Max Roach

― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Friday, 3 August 2018 15:13 (two months ago) Permalink

wtf

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 3 August 2018 15:14 (two months ago) Permalink

No joke. Whenever I see one of their names, I have to pause for a second to remember which is being referred to.

― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Friday, 3 August 2018 15:19 (two months ago) Permalink

Phoebe Bridgers
Phoebe Waller-Bridge (had to google her name, forgot she was actually called Bridge!)

― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Monday, 6 August 2018 17:10 (two months ago) Permalink

two weeks pass...

Jim Jeffries
Jeff Dunham

― incarcerated moonfaces (how's life), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 18:41 (two months ago) Permalink

Lene Lovich and Nina Hagen

― Dr. Goldfood and the Grill Bombs (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 19:01 (two months ago) Permalink

Nina Hagen
Nina Paley

― incarcerated moonfaces (how's life), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 19:18 (two months ago) Permalink

Nina Flowers
Brandon Flowers

― vanjie wail (qiqing), Thursday, 23 August 2018 03:43 (two months ago) Permalink

seriously though

Mary Stuart Masterson
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

― vanjie wail (qiqing), Thursday, 23 August 2018 04:40 (two months ago) Permalink

Drugstore Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy

― flappy bird, Thursday, 23 August 2018 04:45 (two months ago) Permalink

Yes to both of those

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 23 August 2018 06:37 (two months ago) Permalink

seriously though

Mary Stuart Masterson
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

― vanjie wail (qiqing), Wednesday, August 22, 2018 11:40 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

- Haha, who could get these confused?

- All right. Which actress starred in The Abyss?

- You know what? To hell with all of you....

― pplains, Thursday, 23 August 2018 13:39 (two months ago) Permalink

I saw the names and had to google mary elizabeth winstead to remember that she wasn't either of these people, so add her to the list

― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 23 August 2018 13:53 (two months ago) Permalink

Me a few minutes ago "Oh wow Leonora Carrington wrote feminist books about mythology (takes another look at name), no it's Carolyne Larrington"

I wont get them mixed up but I used to get Carrington mixed up with Leonor Fini.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 1 September 2018 17:15 (one month ago) Permalink

Air Supply
Art of Noise

― how's life, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 15:24 (one month ago) Permalink

lol
no way

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 15:55 (one month ago) Permalink

today apparently, i did:

Burt Reynolds
Tom Selleck

Also today:

1) william morris, arts and crafts
2) william morris, talent agency
3) phillip morris, tobacconist
4) phillip morris, fictional man in jim carrey movie

I had all four of these people mixed up in incredibly confusing ways in my head. especially 2-3-4

― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 6 September 2018 21:28 (one month ago) Permalink

Emily Mortimer
Emily Blunt

― Nag Reddit (Leee), Thursday, 6 September 2018 21:43 (one month ago) Permalink

ha I used to get Burt and Tom mixed up when I was a kid

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 6 September 2018 21:45 (one month ago) Permalink

Will you are not alone re the morrises (although I don’t think the last Philip is fictional)

― coetzee.cx (wins), Thursday, 6 September 2018 21:51 (one month ago) Permalink

John Schlesinger
John Frankenheimer

― WmC, Friday, 7 September 2018 12:52 (one month ago) Permalink

Which one of those guys played Cliff Clavin?

― pplains, Friday, 7 September 2018 13:32 (one month ago) Permalink

Lol

― The Great Atomic Power Ballad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 September 2018 13:51 (one month ago) Permalink

Will you are not alone re the morrises (although I don’t think the last Philip is fictional)
― coetzee.cx (wins), Thursday, September 6, 2018 5:51 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

even more confusing! ALL REAL PEOPLE

― challops trap house (Will M.), Friday, 7 September 2018 17:19 (one month ago) Permalink

Emily Mortimer
Emily Blunt
― Nag Reddit (Leee), Thursday, September 6, 2018 5:43 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for real, I cannot tell Emily Mortimer and Emily Watson apart.

― flappy bird, Friday, 7 September 2018 17:46 (one month ago) Permalink

Britishes stop naming your daughters Emily!

― Nag Reddit (Leee), Friday, 7 September 2018 18:24 (one month ago) Permalink

Karen Bradley
Karen Brady

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 7 September 2018 21:28 (one month ago) Permalink

Brendan O'Neill
Brendan O'Carroll

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 8 September 2018 21:11 (one month ago) Permalink

The Little Friend
The Little Stranger

― Madchen, Friday, 14 September 2018 06:05 (one month ago) Permalink

are the two used as euphemisms?

― Stevolende, Friday, 14 September 2018 08:25 (one month ago) Permalink

Julia Hartley Brewer and Kirstie Allsop

― thomasintrouble, Friday, 14 September 2018 09:00 (one month ago) Permalink

The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaiden (Korean film)
The Housemaid (another Korean film)

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 14 September 2018 22:44 (one month ago) Permalink

Have only just realised that Alex Jones who was all over the news for being banned from Twitter share a name with Alex Jones, "one show" host

― koogs, Saturday, 15 September 2018 11:31 (one month ago) Permalink

David Icke
David Fricke

Has this been done idk

― vanjie wail (qiqing), Monday, 17 September 2018 05:57 (one month ago) Permalink

Elizabeth Moss
Elizabeth Olsen

because of Peggy Olson

― silverfish, Monday, 17 September 2018 17:07 (one month ago) Permalink

same, AND same reason

― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Monday, 17 September 2018 17:58 (one month ago) Permalink

In Time
About Time

― MarkoP, Monday, 17 September 2018 22:06 (one month ago) Permalink

A.A. Milne
J.M. Barrie

― Zach Same (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 00:00 (one month ago) Permalink

flopson
flappy bird

― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 00:06 (one month ago) Permalink

^^^^

― Zach Same (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 00:17 (one month ago) Permalink

Jonathan Chait / Jonathan Haidt

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, December 29, 2017 10:45 AM (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ftb they are both chumps iirc

― mark s, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 12:30 (four weeks ago) Permalink

Kiehl’s/Kohl’s

― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 11:40 (three weeks ago) Permalink

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