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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 (eighteen 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 (eighteen 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 (eighteen 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 (eighteen 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 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago)

don't think I mix anything up

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

kept calling psychiatrists psychologists

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

The and Teh

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

Shrinks covers it

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

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

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

paediatrics is the kiddly-fiddlers.

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

And paedophiles are foot fetishists, right I get it

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

i thought they were psychopaths?

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

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

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

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

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

John Updike }{ John Irving

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

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

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

Ha ha, that's great

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

arse
elbow

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

ethics/morals

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

ILX
work

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

Swamp Thing

Man Thing

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

Shetty

Poppadom

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

Shilpa Shetty
Talitha Getty

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

Bills Paxton and Pullman

OTM

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

YES.

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

me too.

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

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers / Jonathan Rhys-Davies

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

paxton/pullman is SO true!

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

Mel Gibson, Mel Brooks

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

the correct spelling & the incorrect spelling

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

well done

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

Uh, thanks?

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

Likewise:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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

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Amy Ryan
Amy Acker

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 14 November 2025 18:55 (one month ago)

Mass Effect
Metroid Prime

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 14 November 2025 18:58 (one month ago)

surely this has already been posted but...

Amy Adams
Rachel McAdams

― dan selzer, Friday, 14 November 2025 20:32 (one month ago)

I posted Amy Adams and Amy Ryan (whose real last name is Dziewiontkowski, I just discovered).

― nickn, Friday, 14 November 2025 20:49 (one month ago)

lily james/lily collins
― woof, Friday, 5 February 2021 11:11 (four years ago)

Still doing this. And they were born within three weeks of each other.

― Alba, Tuesday, 18 November 2025 20:40 (one month ago)

there are two New Jersey towns I associate with William Carlos Williams: Passaic and and Paterson. the problem is I get each of them mixed up with something else

Pessac (region of Bordeaux)
Passaic (NJ)

Patton (U.S. general)
Paterson (NJ)

And because they all start with a P, it all becomes a mess inside my head. oy vey

― budo jeru, Friday, 21 November 2025 04:35 (one month ago)

Passaic and Patterson are fairly close to each other. Patterson is the one with the industrial manufacturing history, the downtown mill buildings, the middle-eastern neighborhood, the great Falls, the Feelies.

― dan selzer, Friday, 21 November 2025 04:45 (one month ago)

realizing I always mixed up:

Ian Broudie
John Leckie

because they both produced the Fall. They're very different people otherwise.

― dan selzer, Friday, 21 November 2025 04:46 (one month ago)

Michael Gibbs, jazz composer, conductor, arranger and producer.
Terry Gibbs, jazz vibraphonist and band leader.

― Tony Bubbles (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 November 2025 16:17 (one month ago)

can never remember which one of these two is dead

Macklemore
Mac Miller

― budo jeru, Monday, 1 December 2025 16:20 (one month ago)

i can keep Macklemore straight, but Mac Miller and Mac DeMarco are the guys I conflate.

― bendy, Monday, 1 December 2025 19:19 (one month ago)

imagining some kind of gay conversion therapist advertising in the yellow pages: "I can keep Macklemore straight!"

― map, Monday, 1 December 2025 19:52 (one month ago)

lol

― bendy, Monday, 1 December 2025 20:14 (one month ago)

Rupert Hine
Rupert Holmes

― henry s, Tuesday, 2 December 2025 19:54 (one month ago)

glen powell
glenn howerton

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 December 2025 22:48 (one month ago)

Bruce Robinson
Bruce Dickinson

― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 4 December 2025 00:54 (one month ago)

lol

― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 4 December 2025 01:44 (one month ago)

not proud of this one

BTS
BTK

― brimstead, Friday, 5 December 2025 05:10 (one month ago)

lol

They do make killer tracks

― nickn, Friday, 5 December 2025 05:52 (one month ago)

Belinda Carlisle
Brandi Carlile

― a tv star not a dirty computer man (the table is the table), Friday, 5 December 2025 12:40 (one month ago)

Omg yes.

― Simile Deschanel (Leee), Friday, 5 December 2025 14:33 (one month ago)

Donald Ogden Stewart
David Ogden Stiers

― Tony Bubbles (Tom D.), Friday, 5 December 2025 15:00 (one month ago)

Fiona Shaw
Patricia Hodge

― Madchen, Monday, 8 December 2025 14:55 (one month ago)

Malin Åkerman
Marin Ireland

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 12 December 2025 21:41 (four weeks ago)

Carlito's Way
Cutter's Way

― oh the traffic around here (Matt #2), Saturday, 13 December 2025 19:20 (four weeks ago)

Stewart Home
Stewart Lee

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 14 December 2025 01:02 (three weeks ago)

Tracer Hand
Noodle Vague

― Modollno Kahn (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 14 December 2025 01:37 (three weeks ago)

absurd

one is a red sox fan
the other is a wolves fan

― mookieproof, Sunday, 14 December 2025 04:10 (three weeks ago)

May have done this one already:

Lionel Trilling
Calvin Trillin

― Modollno Kahn (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 14 December 2025 20:49 (three weeks ago)

a classic of this thread, and worthily so

― budo jeru, Monday, 15 December 2025 00:13 (three weeks ago)

Chris Pine
Chris Pratt
Chris Evans

― Alba, Wednesday, 17 December 2025 12:28 (three weeks ago)

(No, not TFI Fridays Chris Evans)

― Alba, Wednesday, 17 December 2025 12:29 (three weeks ago)

Doesn't help that they've all been in superhero movies

― Alba, Wednesday, 17 December 2025 12:30 (three weeks ago)

NBA Edition

Evan Turner
Evan Mobley
Myles Turner
Miles Bridges

― Stele Dan (Leee), Friday, 19 December 2025 02:56 (three weeks ago)

not to mention plumlees

― mookieproof, Friday, 19 December 2025 05:52 (three weeks ago)

was just thinking about how even though they are very different and I know their work very well I always get these two names mixed up:

Andrew McCarthy
Anthony Edwards

but looking at their filmographies has lead me to realize that these two are different film directors with sexual assault allegations:

Bryan Singer
Brett Rattner

― dan selzer, Friday, 19 December 2025 20:10 (three weeks ago)

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

― oh the traffic around here (Matt #2), Saturday, 20 December 2025 03:40 (three weeks ago)

the latter I’m always mixing up with The Ox-Bow Incident

― budo jeru, Saturday, 20 December 2025 04:16 (three weeks ago)

I Capture the Castle

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 24 December 2025 14:13 (two weeks ago)

I mix the first one up with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_the_King_of_the_Castle

― Alba, Wednesday, 24 December 2025 16:04 (two weeks ago)

Peter Facinelli
Peter Serafinowicz

― jaymc, Tuesday, 30 December 2025 02:11 (one week ago)

Billericay
Biggleswade

― a stadium filled with people in cheesecloth shirts (Matt #2), Tuesday, 30 December 2025 02:26 (one week ago)

Harry Cohn
Roy Cohn

― Modollno Kahn (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 4 January 2026 04:29 (six days ago)

Stone Pony (club)
Stone Poneys (band)

― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 4 January 2026 10:37 (six days ago)

Pedro Neto
Joao Pedro

― Don’t film the Toploader gig, just enjoy it. Live in the moment. (Matt #2), Sunday, 4 January 2026 17:23 (six days ago)

former Raiders players with beards who dabbled in acting in the '80s, becoming pop culture figures, and died young

Lyle Alzado
John Matuszak

― omar little, Tuesday, 6 January 2026 18:35 (four days ago)

Water from Your Eyes

Stars of the Lid

― the way out of (Eazy), Tuesday, 6 January 2026 23:20 (four days ago)

Water from Your Eyes
A stupid band name

― Modollno Kahn (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 7 January 2026 00:07 (three days ago)

Gina Birch
Gina Arnold

― clemenza, Wednesday, 7 January 2026 01:09 (three days ago)

Peter Cetera
etcetera, etcetera

― clemenza, Wednesday, 7 January 2026 17:48 (three days ago)

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