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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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link

don't think I mix anything up

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

kept calling psychiatrists psychologists

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

The and Teh

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

Shrinks covers it

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

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

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

paediatrics is the kiddly-fiddlers.

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

And paedophiles are foot fetishists, right I get it

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

i thought they were psychopaths?

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

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

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

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

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

John Updike }{ John Irving

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

Ha ha, that's great

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

arse
elbow

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

ethics/morals

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

ILX
work

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

Swamp Thing

Man Thing

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

Shetty

Poppadom

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

Shilpa Shetty
Talitha Getty

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

Bills Paxton and Pullman

OTM

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

YES.

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

me too.

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

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers / Jonathan Rhys-Davies

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

paxton/pullman is SO true!

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

Mel Gibson, Mel Brooks

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

well done

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

Uh, thanks?

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

Likewise:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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

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i keep confusing sam smith with sam sanders and/or sam amidon

i'm probably the only person on earth who does this

― Spironolactone T. Agnew (rushomancy), Saturday, 26 October 2019 01:54 (three weeks ago) link

DMBQ
NRBQ

― Lucky Pierre Delecto (crüt), Saturday, 26 October 2019 02:09 (three weeks ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/RcqJQ2J/bichonzilla.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/LttBQ7C/file-23114-maltese-460x290.jpg

― Stuffed Wizard (I M Losted), Saturday, 26 October 2019 10:37 (three weeks ago) link

Lol

― Ferlinghetti Hvorostovsky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 October 2019 11:20 (three weeks ago) link

Cymande
Mandrill

... and you would think Mandré, but not so much really. I might have posted this before.

― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 October 2019 18:04 (three weeks ago) link

... just noticed Mandré was from Shreveport, La, birthplace of the Residents!

― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 October 2019 18:06 (three weeks ago) link

Norma Winstone
Norma Waterson

― fetter, Sunday, 27 October 2019 08:57 (three weeks ago) link

Neil Diamond
Neil Sedaka
Paul Anka

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 22:13 (three weeks ago) link

I used to get Neil Sedaka and Barry Manilow confused.

― nickn, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 22:16 (three weeks ago) link

I know one of them did 'Diana' and one of them did 'Oh Carol' but no idea which.

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 22:17 (three weeks ago) link

Owen Smith
Owen Jones
If there's an Owen Brown then him too

― Cornelius Fondue (Matt #2), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 22:31 (three weeks ago) link

Owen Brown was a son of the abolitionist John Brown.

― nickn, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 22:35 (three weeks ago) link

Josh Allen
Josh Rosen
Sam Darnold

― brimstead, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 00:17 (three weeks ago) link

Dorian Lynskey
Rhodri Marsden

― Cornelius Fondue (Matt #2), Saturday, 2 November 2019 11:12 (two weeks ago) link

George Crumb
Robert Crumb
tbh until 1 minute ago i didn't know george crumb existed and thought he was the comic author.

― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 3 November 2019 09:57 (two weeks ago) link

Now you can listen to George Crumb's music, good stuff!

― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 November 2019 10:03 (two weeks ago) link

Marisol
Maripol

― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:43 (two weeks ago) link

Ha, yes!

― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:51 (two weeks ago) link

The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 4 November 2019 13:35 (two weeks ago) link

Svartsinn
Svarte Greiner

(Norwegian ambient dudes who want you to know that their music is, like, super dark)

― chips moomin (unregistered), Monday, 4 November 2019 14:03 (two weeks ago) link

Gary Pettis and Gary Redus. Both outfielders: Pettis played from 1982-1992, Redus from 1982-1994.
Pettis was a much better defender, Redus a much better hitter. They just missed playing together in Texas towards the end of their careers.

― clemenza, Monday, 4 November 2019 14:42 (two weeks ago) link

Dua Lipa
Duolingo

― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:43 (two weeks ago) link

Baudrillard
Baudelaire

― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Thursday, 7 November 2019 01:01 (one week ago) link

EPMD/EMDR

― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 November 2019 23:10 (one week ago) link

Charles Perrault
Charles Kuralt

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 8 November 2019 02:52 (one week ago) link

^this

― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 November 2019 03:25 (one week ago) link

Richard Ford
Richard Russo
Richard Powers
Richard Price

― rob, Saturday, 9 November 2019 14:35 (one week ago) link

^this too
Throw in Richard Yates for the quincunx.

― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 November 2019 14:45 (one week ago) link

Joe Pesci
Joe Piscopo

― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 10 November 2019 21:56 (one week ago) link

I saw Joe Piscopo in something for the first time ever last week and now I don't know how anyone ever thought of him enough to confuse with anybody

― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Sunday, 10 November 2019 23:17 (one week ago) link

Alvin Curran
Alvin Lucier

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 10 November 2019 23:22 (one week ago) link

^ pretty sure I did that one upthread, along with Philip Corner and Phill Niblock.

― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 November 2019 23:29 (one week ago) link

Apologies for the duplication - Curran is playing in Glasgow this month and I couldn’t remember if I’d seen him before - but no, it was Lucier I’d seen previously.

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 10 November 2019 23:33 (one week ago) link

the plot of taken 3

― deems of internment (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 November 2019 23:41 (one week ago) link

(xp) No apologies necessary, just noting someone else has the same problem distinguishing avant-Alvins!

― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2019 00:11 (one week ago) link

Jaco Pastorius
Jacob Sartorius

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 11:49 (one week ago) link

Weyes Blood
Wye Oak

― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 17:26 (one week ago) link

Lee Greenwood/Lee Hazlewood

Whenever I see the credit for God Bless the USA I think for a split second, "Wait, the guy who wrote 'Some Velvet Morning'?!"

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, March 5, 2018 9:28 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

^^^ this for me but in reverse — whenever I hear people singing the praises of Lee Hazlewood I'm like "Wait, the guy who wrote 'God Bless The USA'?!"

― esempio (crüt), Saturday, 16 November 2019 01:06 (four days ago) link

Catherine Bach
Barbara Bach

And don't even ask me who's married to Joe Walsh.

― pplains, Saturday, 16 November 2019 01:11 (four days ago) link

Matmos
Momus

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 16 November 2019 02:27 (four days ago) link

today i learned that bill callahan and mark kozelek are separate people.

― treeship., Saturday, 16 November 2019 18:25 (four days ago) link

now i know why i like smog and not sun kil moon

― treeship., Saturday, 16 November 2019 18:29 (four days ago) link

Jena and Erfurt. Going from Berlin to Frankfurt/Main it is Jena first and then Erfurt. I always mix them up.

― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 17 November 2019 22:52 (three days ago) link

I think I wouldn't confuse them anymore if I would visit at least one of them but I always drive past.

― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 17 November 2019 22:54 (three days ago) link

Ponderosa Steakhouse
Bonanza Steakhouse

― Sam Weller, Monday, 18 November 2019 14:16 (two days ago) link

Cage the Elephant
Elephant 6
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
Ella Fitzgerald

― maffew12, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 01:05 (yesterday) link

The Turner Diaries
The Basketball Diaries

― 💠 (crüt), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 01:12 (yesterday) link

David Cronenberg
Steven Soderbergh

― punning display, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 01:36 (yesterday) link

John Mayer
Rectangles

― maffew12, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 01:45 (yesterday) link

Just confused Talosians and Thessalonians

― MrDasher, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 02:00 (yesterday) link

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