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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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His Name is Alive
Today is the Day

― a tv star not a dirty computer man (the table is the table), Friday, 29 May 2026 16:20 (two months ago)

oh, and for some reason with those two, Texas is the Reason

― a tv star not a dirty computer man (the table is the table), Friday, 29 May 2026 16:21 (two months ago)

Amen break
Apache break

More authors I've never read whom I confuse:
Dorothy Sayers
Eudora Welty

― Toilets and Cressida (Leee), Friday, 29 May 2026 16:44 (two months ago)

old time jass edition:

Elmer Snowden
Elmer Schoebel

― The Immortal Bird of Avon (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 29 May 2026 17:22 (two months ago)

Harley Peyton
Peyton Reed

― The Yellow Kid, Friday, 29 May 2026 19:37 (two months ago)

Vince McMahon
Dana White

― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Saturday, 30 May 2026 02:31 (two months ago)

Hailee Steinfeld
Beanie Feldstein

― anatol_merklich, Monday, 1 June 2026 14:10 (one month ago)

80s/90s track and field edition:

Merlene Ottey
Myrtle Augie

― Madchen, Monday, 1 June 2026 15:16 (one month ago)

Three Doors Down
Third Eye Blind
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, April 25, 2023 7:59 PM (three years ago)

agreed, with added Three Dog Night

― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 2 June 2026 06:09 (one month ago)

Mark Goodson
Bill Todman

or is it

Mark Goodman
Bill Todson

― henry s, Tuesday, 2 June 2026 09:55 (one month ago)

Andrew Watt
Andrew Weiss

(... assumed the former was the latter).

― Tom D, focussed with getting on with the job (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2026 13:04 (one month ago)

Anthony Head (died today)
Anthony Heald (Silence of the Lambs)

― clemenza, Friday, 5 June 2026 16:29 (one month ago)

Corfu
Crete
Cyprus

In that I'm never sure till it after comes out of my mouth if I'm going to say the right name for the one we went on holiday to a couple of years ago (it was Crete). Corsica does not seem to enter into it.

― stick your cheffing job (ledge), Sunday, 7 June 2026 15:51 (one month ago)

Full Moon in Blue Water
Moon Over Parador

― cryptosicko, Monday, 8 June 2026 02:08 (one month ago)

Red Skelton
Red Buttons

― The Immortal Bird of Avon (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 8 June 2026 19:25 (one month ago)

Embarrassed to admit this, but I always thought that Jon Landau the rock critic/producer was also Jon Landau the movie guy.

― clemenza, Monday, 8 June 2026 19:28 (one month ago)

(xp)

One of them never got a dinner.

― cryptosicko, Monday, 8 June 2026 19:36 (one month ago)

J.D. Souther
Terry Southern

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 10 June 2026 20:54 (one month ago)

Hatebreed
Hatebeak

― Roy Ouroboroson (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 11 June 2026 19:21 (one month ago)

CSNY
SDNY

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 16 June 2026 01:36 (one month ago)

MOU does not stand for Memorandum of Unusual Size

Just like I see USMNT (soccer) and I think Mutant Ninja Turtles

― seersucker MC (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 16 June 2026 02:40 (one month ago)

Phil Spencer
Phil Spector

― Toilets and Cressida (Leee), Tuesday, 16 June 2026 05:02 (one month ago)

Tropical 2
Hawaii: Part II

― MarkoP, Wednesday, 17 June 2026 17:37 (one month ago)

giardia
giardiniera

― The Immortal Bird of Avon (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 17 June 2026 17:57 (one month ago)

^ definitely not a mistake you want in the kitchen

― seersucker MC (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 17 June 2026 17:58 (one month ago)

MOU does not stand for Memorandum of Unusual Size
Just like I see USMNT (soccer) and I think Mutant Ninja Turtles

looool same

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 17 June 2026 18:04 (one month ago)

Macaw
Macaque

Both birds as far as my mind's eye is concerned, until someone starts talking about the latter's limbs and appendages

― bendy, Wednesday, 17 June 2026 18:13 (one month ago)

One of my cats had giardia when he was a baby, and it was absolutely horrific, like Silkwood levels of emergency decontamination.

― whimsical skeedaddler (Moodles), Wednesday, 17 June 2026 19:02 (one month ago)

Jonathan Franzen has shown up in the thread a few times, mostly vis-a-vis other Jonathans.

I recently crossed him with Michael Chabon, but then in trying to de-Franzen my Chabon I accidentally got to Glenn Savan.

St. Louis connects Franzen, Savan; Chabon is Pittsburgh.

― Scott Baiowulf (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 19 June 2026 02:16 (one month ago)

Colson Whitehead
Paxton Whitehead

― The Immortal Bird of Avon (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 22 June 2026 20:56 (one month ago)

two weeks pass...

Jeff Hanna - "House at Pooh Corner"
Jeff Hanneman - "God Send Death"

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 6 July 2026 22:32 (three weeks ago)

Baklava
Balaclava

― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 10 July 2026 19:56 (three weeks ago)

Elephant 6
Eve 6

― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 July 2026 20:33 (three weeks ago)

Brinsley Schwarz
Brinsley Forde

― Alba, Friday, 10 July 2026 20:59 (three weeks ago)

Hayley Williams
Congresswoman Haley Stevens

― mick signals, Saturday, 11 July 2026 00:09 (two weeks ago)

What about Nikki Haley?

― Toilets and Cressida (Leee), Saturday, 11 July 2026 01:23 (two weeks ago)

Sydney Pollack
Sidney Lumet

― Alba, Saturday, 11 July 2026 10:48 (two weeks ago)

A regular itt.

― stanes on the knees and blood on the jumber (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 July 2026 10:56 (two weeks ago)

Just you before, it looks like!

― Alba, Saturday, 11 July 2026 20:07 (two weeks ago)

Add me to the list of people who get those two confused. Less so now than I used to, but it still happens.

― emil.y, Saturday, 11 July 2026 20:22 (two weeks ago)

(xp) LOL

― stanes on the knees and blood on the jumber (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 July 2026 20:54 (two weeks ago)

To lazy to check if this pair has been mentioned:

Guided by Voices
Husker Du

― Toilets and Cressida (Leee), Sunday, 12 July 2026 17:29 (two weeks ago)

Challengers (2024 movie)
Passengers (2016 movie)

― MarkoP, Wednesday, 15 July 2026 22:34 (two weeks ago)

Barney Miller
Barnaby Jones

― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Thursday, 16 July 2026 15:38 (two weeks ago)

Paul Lytton
Paul Lovens

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 17 July 2026 09:32 (two weeks ago)

Rodney Green - great jazz drummer
Rodney Holmes - great jazz fusion drummer, played on Santana 'Smooth', sadly passed away this week

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 17 July 2026 13:22 (two weeks ago)

Robert Kiyosaki
Guy Kawasaki

― mick signals, Sunday, 19 July 2026 21:54 (one week ago)

The Song That Never Ends
The Song Remains The Same

― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 28 July 2026 14:00 (three days ago)

it goes on and on my friend

― Luigi No...No!!! (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 28 July 2026 14:16 (three days ago)

... Be Glad For the Song Has No Ending

― stanes on the knees and blood on the jumber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 July 2026 14:18 (three days ago)

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