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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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

Arpeggio (sequence of notes)

Archipeligo (sequence of islands)

I always try to combine them.

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

don't think I mix anything up

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

kept calling psychiatrists psychologists

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

The and Teh

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

Shrinks covers it

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

paediatrics is the kiddly-fiddlers.

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

And paedophiles are foot fetishists, right I get it

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

i thought they were psychopaths?

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

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

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

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

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

John Updike }{ John Irving

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

I did describe someone as behaving as though they were suffering from Stockhausen Syndrome.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, that's great

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

arse
elbow

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

ethics/morals

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

ILX
work

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

when i was a kid:
bagels-donuts
muffins-cupcakes

but even more recently
jar-bottle

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Swamp Thing

Man Thing

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

Shetty

Poppadom

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

Shilpa Shetty
Talitha Getty

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

Bills Paxton and Pullman
Until recently: Cormac McCarthy and Carson McCullers
Red and green, apparently

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

Bills Paxton and Pullman

OTM

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

YES.

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

me too.

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers / Jonathan Rhys-Davies

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

paxton/pullman is SO true!

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

Mel Gibson, Mel Brooks

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

the correct spelling & the incorrect spelling

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

well done

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

Uh, thanks?

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

Likewise:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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

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Just saw a Dakota Fanning movie The Sun Never Sets and thought the whole time she was Don Johnson's daughter.

― coffee-themed romance ads (Eazy), Saturday, 5 September 2026 02:37 (one month ago)

Who ever heard of two Dakotas?

― nickn, Saturday, 5 September 2026 03:25 (one month ago)

Dakota Staton wants a word

― Kurt Koozebane (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 September 2026 22:47 (one month ago)

Vince McMahon - World Wrestling oligarch
Ty Warner - Beanie Baby oligarch

― bendy, Monday, 7 September 2026 19:30 (one month ago)

Alex Gibney
Morgan Neville

― MarkoP, Tuesday, 8 September 2026 15:19 (one month ago)

Salisbury
Shrewsbury

― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 9 September 2026 10:48 (one month ago)

John Berger
John Pilger

― Happiness is a warm gurn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 September 2026 11:03 (one month ago)

Ha yes I've done that recently

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 September 2026 11:07 (one month ago)

In my head it's

John Berger (serious writer)

Thomas Berger (silly writer)

― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 9 September 2026 13:58 (one month ago)

Thomas Bernhard (scandalous writer)

― Happiness is a warm gurn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 September 2026 14:06 (one month ago)

Berger's Cookies (scandalously caloric)

― peace, man, Wednesday, 9 September 2026 14:10 (one month ago)

Ham Burger (sandwich)

― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 9 September 2026 15:05 (one month ago)

Berger's Cookies (scandalously caloric)

Maryland mentioned!!!

― Oaf To Joy (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 9 September 2026 15:07 (one month ago)

I should note that for once I am not casually remarking on people with the same last name; circa 1992 I checked out Lilac and Flag from the library because I thought it was by the time travel guy. Narrator: It was not by the time travel guy.

― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 9 September 2026 15:09 (one month ago)

Blaze Foley (country music also-ran)
Blaze Bayley (metal also-ran)

― wipes chooser (unperson), Wednesday, 9 September 2026 17:09 (one month ago)

Marshall Herskovitz
Marshall Brickman

― jaymc, Friday, 11 September 2026 00:20 (one month ago)

less so since I became a regular listener to the Critical Darlings podcast, but:

Alison Wilmore
Alissa Wilkinson

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 September 2026 00:27 (one month ago)

Samuel __ Clemens. Is it

1. Lampton, his mother's maiden name?

2. Langdon, his wife's maiden name?

No it's

3. Langhorne, the name of one of his father's friends

― Paprikachu (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 19 September 2026 23:05 (one month ago)

Ute Lemper
Lotte Lenya

― wipes chooser (unperson), Monday, 21 September 2026 16:08 (four weeks ago)

Something Wild
Ruthless People

― brimstead, Monday, 21 September 2026 17:54 (four weeks ago)

Something Wild
After Hours

― Alba, Monday, 21 September 2026 18:04 (four weeks ago)

Lemper, I think, would be very honored with that mix up.

― bendy, Monday, 21 September 2026 18:59 (four weeks ago)

Every time Lemper does something - she's releasing a new song, and I got an email about it - I think, "Holy shit, she's still alive?" and then realize I'm thinking of Lenya. Lemper is only in her sixties.

― wipes chooser (unperson), Monday, 21 September 2026 19:02 (four weeks ago)

Ute de Lempicker
Tamara Lemper

If you see what I mean.

― Madchen, Monday, 21 September 2026 19:48 (four weeks ago)

Also, I just now said Gianduja when I meant ‘Nduja.

― Madchen, Monday, 21 September 2026 20:24 (four weeks ago)

franklin bruno (musician)
frank bruno (boxer)

― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 2 October 2026 03:20 (two weeks ago)

(No confusion on Annie Lennox, but whenever I see the name Ari Lennox, I think "that's Panda Bear, right?")
― jaymc, Thursday, August 27, 2026 5:52 AM (one month ago)

no, panda bear is ari aster

― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 2 October 2026 03:21 (two weeks ago)

John Wick
― brimstead, Friday, August 21, 2026 8:30 AM (one month ago)

i haven't seen the john wick movies, but he's, like, ip man for white people, right?

― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 2 October 2026 03:23 (two weeks ago)

Keanu Reeves is technically white-presenting, but kinda, yeah.

― wipes chooser (unperson), Friday, 2 October 2026 03:30 (two weeks ago)

I just walked past a pair of young dudes who were arguing about which was which:

ceviche
alpaca

― mick signals, Friday, 2 October 2026 21:46 (two weeks ago)

Probably thinking about alopecia.

― dan selzer, Saturday, 3 October 2026 04:10 (two weeks ago)

flautist
flatulist
flâneur

― The Ella Langley Schools Music Project (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 4 October 2026 14:13 (two weeks ago)

Pierre-Emile Højbjerg
Rasmus Højlund

― (energetic rock music continues) (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 October 2026 20:35 (two weeks ago)

Iceage
Protomartyr

― brimstead, Tuesday, 6 October 2026 00:24 (two weeks ago)

Daniel Galvin
Daniel Sandler

I can never remember which is hair and which is make-up.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 6 October 2026 07:36 (two weeks ago)

I can't believe Dennis Hastert (despicable child molester) and Dennis Haskins (token adult on a child sitcom) died within a week of each other. Mixing these two up has caused the latter to be unfairly stained in my brain with the sins of the former for years. Let it be known that despite making his name by being around teen stars on a TV set, Dennis Haskins was never to my knowledge accused of sexual misconduct. In fact, he sounds like he was a pretty stand up guy -- he doesn't even have a "Personal Life" section on his wikipedia, let alone "Legal Issues" or "Controversies" or the like!

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 6 October 2026 15:41 (two weeks ago)

Dennis Hastert (dead)
Dennis Haskins (dead)
Dennis Haysbert (not dead)

Actually, I'm pretty clear on who Dennis Haysbert is due to his starring role in a spectacular sex dream I once had.

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 6 October 2026 19:55 (two weeks ago)

Bret Hart ("the Hitman")
Bret Michaels
Shawn Michaels ("the Heartbreak Kid")

― defecating gray (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 7 October 2026 03:18 (one week ago)

Eva Marie Saint Buffy Sainte-Marie
Richard Harris Richard Harrison
John Perry Barlow John Weir Perry
Urantia Unarius

― dell (del), Wednesday, 7 October 2026 06:02 (one week ago)

Jaco Pastorius
Miroslav Vitous

― mahb, Wednesday, 7 October 2026 09:18 (one week ago)

Josef von Sternberg
Erich von Stroheim

― AI Influencer Pope (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 10 October 2026 20:03 (one week ago)

Alison Brie
Brie Larson

Actually thought they were the same person until today.

― Alba, Saturday, 10 October 2026 20:14 (one week ago)

Susan Strasberg (actor)
Susan Stafford (the first letter-turner on "Wheel of Fortune")

― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 13 October 2026 02:07 (one week ago)

chllin murphy
clavicle

― brimstead, Tuesday, 13 October 2026 02:12 (one week ago)

SBK Records
SKG Dreamworks

― peace, man, Tuesday, 13 October 2026 10:27 (one week ago)

John Gruber
Jon Gruden

― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 13 October 2026 17:17 (one week ago)

Every time I see some movie's cast list that features Chris Evans, I think "Oh man, the guy from Hot Ones is going to be so good as a villain."

― coffee-themed romance ads (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 October 2026 18:24 (one week ago)

Judy Blume
Beverly Cleary

― MarkoP, Wednesday, 14 October 2026 15:41 (six days ago)

Bowery Electric
Antonelli Electr.

― This is how the spicy nonsense becomes loose. (doo dah), Friday, 16 October 2026 17:04 (four days ago)

Vanilla Fudge
Blue Cheer

― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 20 October 2026 01:41 (seven hours ago)

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