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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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link

don't think I mix anything up

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

kept calling psychiatrists psychologists

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

The and Teh

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

Shrinks covers it

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

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

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

paediatrics is the kiddly-fiddlers.

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

And paedophiles are foot fetishists, right I get it

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

i thought they were psychopaths?

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

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

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

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

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

John Updike }{ John Irving

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

Ha ha, that's great

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

arse
elbow

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

ethics/morals

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

ILX
work

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

Swamp Thing

Man Thing

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

Shetty

Poppadom

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

Shilpa Shetty
Talitha Getty

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

Bills Paxton and Pullman

OTM

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

YES.

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

me too.

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

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers / Jonathan Rhys-Davies

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

paxton/pullman is SO true!

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

Mel Gibson, Mel Brooks

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

well done

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

Uh, thanks?

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

Likewise:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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

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Ned might smack me, but I often confuse Charalambides and Six Organs of Admittance in my head— like I obviously know the difference between them, but the other day I was thinking to myself “It’s weird that Tom and Christina collaborated with Shackleton!” but that’s because they didn’t!!

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 19 October 2024 23:58 (two months ago) link

Hope of the States
Future of the Left

― joe meek's cutoff (Matt #2), Friday, 25 October 2024 22:24 (one month ago) link

Slint
Slift

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 26 October 2024 01:40 (one month ago) link

The Veronicas
Aly & AJ

― MarkoP, Thursday, 31 October 2024 16:11 (one month ago) link

Chris Cillizza
Chris Pirillo

― MarkoP, Thursday, 31 October 2024 16:13 (one month ago) link

Harry Chapin
Mary Chapin Carpenter

(not really but I've just cleared up why I thought he was called 'Harry Chapin Carpenter')

― french cricket in the usa (ledge), Thursday, 31 October 2024 16:18 (one month ago) link

^ yes and also John Cougar Mellencamp. I think I spend too much time in a day thinking of clever alliteratives that it has compromised my ability to properly file away names

― Patti The Pone (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 31 October 2024 18:51 (one month ago) link

Autre Ne Veut
Circuit Des Yeux

― Patti The Pone (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 1 November 2024 17:27 (one month ago) link

Ha same

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 1 November 2024 17:43 (one month ago) link

Or maybe it's someone else I conflate with CDY, but they're playing here tonight and I had to remind myself what their deal is

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 1 November 2024 17:44 (one month ago) link

I must confess I sometimes confuse CDY and Lingua Ignota (and I adore both artists)

― Patti The Pone (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 1 November 2024 17:47 (one month ago) link

snail mail
soccer mommy

― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 November 2024 03:33 (one month ago) link

can't even discern which band name is worse

― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 November 2024 03:34 (one month ago) link

fine, it's the latter

― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 November 2024 03:37 (one month ago) link

Soccer Mommy
Snail Mail

― nickn, Sunday, March 15, 2020

Snail Mail and Soccer Mommy

― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, December 11, 2021

snail mail
soccer mommy

― mookieproof, Friday, November 1, 2024

One thread.

― nickn, Saturday, 2 November 2024 04:35 (one month ago) link

my people

― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 November 2024 04:45 (one month ago) link

Wussy
Wishy

― budo jeru, Monday, 4 November 2024 21:59 (one month ago) link

John Krasinski

Zachary Levi

― kato kaelin-manuel miranda (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 02:18 (one month ago) link

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― kato kaelin-manuel miranda (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 02:19 (one month ago) link

Laura
Gilda

― WmC, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 03:02 (one month ago) link

Jayma Mays

Lindy Booth

― abreast of what's afoot (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 23:52 (one month ago) link

jacques maigret
hercule poirot
jacques clouseau

― budo jeru, Friday, 15 November 2024 20:38 (one month ago) link

Clouseau
Cousteau

― velcromagnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 November 2024 21:25 (one month ago) link

Pete Sinfield
Pete Wingfield

― biting your uncles (Tom D.), Friday, 15 November 2024 21:50 (one month ago) link

Black Keys
The Liars

― More Cumin Than Cumin (Leee), Friday, 22 November 2024 18:33 (one month ago) link

+ The Kills

― More Cumin Than Cumin (Leee), Friday, 22 November 2024 18:35 (one month ago) link

Black Lips for me

― Alba, Friday, 22 November 2024 19:05 (one month ago) link

Darkman
Memoirs of an invisible man

― brimstead, Friday, 22 November 2024 20:09 (one month ago) link

nino nardini
nino niederreiter

― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 November 2024 04:19 (four weeks ago) link

peacock
paramount+

― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 November 2024 04:19 (four weeks ago) link

^ likewise

― nickn, Sunday, 24 November 2024 05:49 (four weeks ago) link

60s free jazz reed players Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre and Makanda Ken McIntyre.

― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 25 November 2024 16:21 (three weeks ago) link

Screwgun (label)
Thumbscrew (band)

― WmC, Monday, 25 November 2024 16:32 (three weeks ago) link

60s free jazz reed players Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre and Makanda Ken McIntyre.

I knew they were two separate individuals but for many years I thought they were brothers. (They were not brothers.)

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 25 November 2024 16:42 (three weeks ago) link

Tatsuya Ishida
Tatsuya Yoshida

― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 8 December 2024 00:14 (two weeks ago) link

CocoRosie
Prussian Blue

― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 8 December 2024 05:55 (two weeks ago) link

Franc Fernandez
Franz Ferdinand

― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 8 December 2024 18:00 (two weeks ago) link

Steve Alaimo
Dick Contino

― The Whimsical Muse (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 9 December 2024 02:29 (one week ago) link

^ What's the connection between those two?

― Josefa, Monday, 9 December 2024 03:03 (one week ago) link

neither of them played gul dukat on ds9

― mookieproof, Monday, 9 December 2024 03:14 (one week ago) link

I know who Fearne Cotton is; I know who Fern Britton is. Yet every time I see a headline about Fearne Cotton getting divorced I think it's about Fern Britton.

― Alba, Saturday, 14 December 2024 12:45 (one week ago) link

tana french
donna tartt

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 18 December 2024 02:16 (four days ago) link

French tart

― Alba, Wednesday, 18 December 2024 11:17 (four days ago) link

Tan French

― More Cumin Than Cumin (Leee), Wednesday, 18 December 2024 15:53 (four days ago) link

Goodby Mr Chips and Looking for Mr Goodbar are very very different movies.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 18 December 2024 23:18 (four days ago) link

Paul Bollenbeck
John Hollenbeck

― The Whimsical Muse (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 19 December 2024 00:47 (three days ago) link

Ugh, BollenbAck

― The Whimsical Muse (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 19 December 2024 00:48 (three days ago) link

Al Feldstein
Al Goldstein

― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 19 December 2024 21:06 (three days ago) link

^^^

I've only met one of those guys.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 19 December 2024 21:14 (three days ago) link

Marni Nixon
Marti Noxon

― jaymc, Saturday, 21 December 2024 19:31 (yesterday) link

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