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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) 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) Permalink

don't think I mix anything up

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

kept calling psychiatrists psychologists

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

The and Teh

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

Shrinks covers it

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

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

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

paediatrics is the kiddly-fiddlers.

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

And paedophiles are foot fetishists, right I get it

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

i thought they were psychopaths?

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

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

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

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

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

John Updike }{ John Irving

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

Ha ha, that's great

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

arse
elbow

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

ethics/morals

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

ILX
work

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

Swamp Thing

Man Thing

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

Shetty

Poppadom

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

Shilpa Shetty
Talitha Getty

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

Bills Paxton and Pullman

OTM

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

YES.

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

me too.

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

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers / Jonathan Rhys-Davies

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

paxton/pullman is SO true!

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

Mel Gibson, Mel Brooks

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

well done

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

Uh, thanks?

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

Likewise:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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

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I don't ever even think much about Bill Evans - saxophonist. It's Bill Evans the pianist who also played in an earlier Miles group who is top Bill!

― calzino, Monday, 4 February 2019 15:41 (two months ago) Permalink

oops, didn't catch all of last paste.

― calzino, Monday, 4 February 2019 15:44 (two months ago) Permalink

Yusuf Lateef also a former Bill Evans (and I think recorded under that name early on)!

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 4 February 2019 15:48 (two months ago) Permalink

In my experience lots of ppl also get Coleman Hawkins and Ornette Coleman mixed up

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 4 February 2019 15:49 (two months ago) Permalink

I wouldn't, but am a subnormal freak!
xp
bloody hell, didn't know that. Even record shop headz might have been confused by that one.

― calzino, Monday, 4 February 2019 15:52 (two months ago) Permalink

yusef lateef's name was BILL EVANS? are you serious?

a lady i used to work with was related to yusef lateef

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 4 February 2019 18:45 (two months ago) Permalink

https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1373435027l/1154825.jpg

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 19:42 (two months ago) Permalink

Jack Warden and Jack Weston.

I don't actually get the people confused, but their names (and timelines) are close enough that I started a movie tonight waiting for Jack Warden to show up until Jack Weston did, and I thought "Right--Jack Weston."

― clemenza, Thursday, 7 February 2019 01:10 (two months ago) Permalink

Nezval and Nerval
Calzino and Clemenza

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 10 February 2019 18:12 (two months ago) Permalink

michael oliver
lord haw-haw

― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 February 2019 18:48 (two months ago) Permalink

dtla
dtlr

― peace, man, Monday, 11 February 2019 16:45 (two months ago) Permalink

soap operas
prestige dramas

― brimstead, Monday, 11 February 2019 16:48 (two months ago) Permalink

Nick Tosches is the worst of the first generation of rock critics (though Richard Meltzer gives him a serious run for it).

― grawlix (unperson)

meltzer's performance as det. munch on "homicide: life on the street" makes up for the shittiness of his rock criticism imo

― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 00:43 (two months ago) Permalink

Halsey
Alessia Cara

― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 01:00 (two months ago) Permalink

Ha, one time saw that guy walking down Broadway with his twin.
(XP)

― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 01:15 (two months ago) Permalink

deerhunter
deafheaven

― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Monday, 18 February 2019 16:55 (two months ago) Permalink

(feel like this one says more about the way my brain stores words/names -- two words stuck together, 10 letters, words are 4 & 6 length, D.H.)

― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Monday, 18 February 2019 16:57 (two months ago) Permalink

I always confuse deafheaven with deafhaven, a group who exist solely in the bit of my brain responsible for typing words

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 18 February 2019 16:59 (two months ago) Permalink

deerhunter and deerhoof for sure
not deafheaven

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 18 February 2019 19:03 (two months ago) Permalink

weirdly i don't have that problem because the length of the band name is different? i might be a robot

― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Monday, 18 February 2019 19:05 (two months ago) Permalink

no that makes sense -- some people latch onto the syllabic rhythm of something

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 18 February 2019 19:06 (two months ago) Permalink

^^ I got teased by my family this morning for confusing dandelions with daffodils.

― pplains, Monday, 18 February 2019 19:22 (two months ago) Permalink

Terence Blanchard/Terell Stafford

― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 February 2019 11:15 (two months ago) Permalink

Anne Carson, Anne Sexton

similarly but separately: Anne Tyler, Ann Beattie, Ann Patchett

John Ashberry, John Berryman

― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Sunday, 3 March 2019 15:20 (one month ago) Permalink

^all of this

― Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 March 2019 16:00 (one month ago) Permalink

Bernie Maupin / Bennie Taupin

Or is it...

― *there's (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 00:41 (one month ago) Permalink

Took me a while but I see what you did there.

― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 01:04 (one month ago) Permalink

Jan Michael Vincent and Don Johnson

― nickn, Friday, 8 March 2019 20:58 (one month ago) Permalink

Jan Michael Vincent and the "Voyagers" guy who got shot on a production set.

― pplains, Saturday, 9 March 2019 00:36 (one month ago) Permalink

Jon-Erik Hexum - glad to hear I'm not the only one!

― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 9 March 2019 08:04 (one month ago) Permalink

Jan-Michael Vincent and Michael Des Barres (who, I now find out, is the 26th Marquis Des Barres, which should clear up the confusion if I think of him as that).

― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Saturday, 9 March 2019 09:33 (one month ago) Permalink

phlebotomy and phrenology

― mick signals, Monday, 11 March 2019 15:02 (one month ago) Permalink

ferberization and fletcherization

― mick signals, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:22 (one month ago) Permalink

Fitzroy Maclean
Sorley Maclean
Compton Mackenzie

― The Vangelis of Dating (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 22:21 (one month ago) Permalink

Casino Royale/On Her Majesty's Secret Service (haven't seen either. answered the wrong one in a quiz to 'which bond film starred george lazenby'.)

― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Monday, 25 March 2019 10:50 (four weeks ago) Permalink

Assault on Precinct 13
The Taking of Pelham 123

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 25 March 2019 11:03 (four weeks ago) Permalink

Lol yes

― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 25 March 2019 11:04 (four weeks ago) Permalink

Paul Rudolph/Paul Rodgers
Herbie Flowers/Humphrey Ocean

rudolph and flowers each feature in (different) projects i am currently subbing and fact-checking so this mild double disorientation is salutory

― mark s, Monday, 1 April 2019 11:57 (three weeks ago) Permalink

Bonnie Prince Billy
Billy Childish
Billie Eilish

― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 16:41 (two weeks ago) Permalink

all those and Bill Callahan

― thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:37 (two weeks ago) Permalink

The Day of the Jackal
Three Days of the Condor

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:25 (two weeks ago) Permalink

xp: true!

Three Days of the Condor
Condorman

― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:26 (two weeks ago) Permalink

Also I always know who Roy Scheider is but if I ever try to remember Rod Steiger's name, all I can think of is Scheider's.

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:26 (two weeks ago) Permalink

(I had to look up In the Heat of the Night to remember Steiger's to write that post)

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:27 (two weeks ago) Permalink

two weeks pass...

Marie Kondo/María Kodama

― Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 April 2019 13:18 (yesterday) Permalink

I wouldn't say I get them mixed up but I can't see Dunhill Records (home of the Mamas & the Papas et al) without thinking of HP Lovecraft (the author of 'The Dunwich Horror', not the band who were roughly contemporaneous with the Mamas & the Papas).

― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 April 2019 15:38 (yesterday) Permalink

I’m going to Korea today. For the past few weeks I’ve had to train myself to say “Korea” or “South Korea” rather than “North Korea.” I have no idea why. 🤷‍♂️

― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, 21 April 2019 16:05 (yesterday) Permalink

Levon Vincent/Leon Vynehall

― brimstead, Monday, 22 April 2019 00:59 (nineteen hours ago) Permalink

Chuba Akpom / Chuks Aneke. Both trainee Arsenal strikers, both hung around the fringes of the first team squad a few years ago before being eased out the door into a career of lower-league mediocrity.

― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Monday, 22 April 2019 12:04 (eight hours ago) Permalink

thought this was Paul Sorvino

http://img4.bdbphotos.com/images/700x350/0/f/0fio4br4rpfabar0.jpg?skj2io4l

― Olmütz human (brownie), Monday, 22 April 2019 14:26 (six hours ago) Permalink

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