Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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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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Saffron way more expensive than sumac, though, as well as almost any other spice.

― Mogwai Fear Seitan (Leee), Thursday, 31 July 2025 00:06 (one month ago)

Also gold

― Madchen, Thursday, 31 July 2025 00:14 (one month ago)

Art Fein
Art Laboe

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 31 July 2025 04:12 (one month ago)

Venture Capital
Private Equity

― MarkoP, Thursday, 31 July 2025 17:26 (one month ago)

https://i.imgur.com/4Locr5F.jpeg

― Alba, Thursday, 31 July 2025 21:30 (one month ago)

The:

Church
Cult
Call
Calling

― je ne sequoia (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 4 August 2025 17:10 (one month ago)

Gru
Groot

― budo jeru, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 04:05 (four weeks ago)

That one is good because Despicable Me and Megamind (both 2010) are a conflation risk, plus bonus content for the twinned movies thread

one time there were two magician movies

― je ne sequoia (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 5 August 2025 04:10 (four weeks ago)

Don't forget Groo (the Wanderer)!

― whimsical skeedaddler (Moodles), Tuesday, 5 August 2025 04:11 (four weeks ago)

Smog (Bill Callahan)
Fog (Andrew Broder)

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 August 2025 20:00 (four weeks ago)

Malcolm McDowell
Roddy McDowell

― Black Sabaoth (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 8 August 2025 23:31 (three weeks ago)

lol

― Reggie Clanker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 August 2025 00:20 (three weeks ago)

Yelle
yeule

― MarkoP, Monday, 11 August 2025 16:30 (three weeks ago)

Jim O’Rourke
John McEntire

― Black Sabaoth (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 11 August 2025 23:42 (three weeks ago)

wrt which songs they produced on cobra and phases groop, same

― brimstead, Tuesday, 12 August 2025 00:50 (three weeks ago)

Stu Cook
Carl Radle

― Strange New Wordles (WmC), Tuesday, 12 August 2025 02:47 (three weeks ago)

Yelle
yeule

For me it's:

yeule
Yaeji

― jaymc, Tuesday, 12 August 2025 03:25 (three weeks ago)

John Tavener
John Taverner

― Peter No-one (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 August 2025 11:37 (three weeks ago)

Teddy Swims
Barry Can't Swim

Am aware what they both do and that they are very different, but there's a bit of my brain that doubts which name belongs to which one whenever I'm minded to mention one of them.

This is the same brain malfunction which refused to let me realise that Andrew Garfield has never been president of the USA and that Angela Lansbury isn't a TV character played Jessica Fletcher.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 12 August 2025 12:18 (three weeks ago)

Lily Collins
Lily James

― Madchen, Thursday, 14 August 2025 02:09 (three weeks ago)

Edward Albee
Edward Abbey

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 15 August 2025 00:02 (two weeks ago)

The Beatniks
The Beatnigs
The Beatings

― Proust Ian Rush (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 17 August 2025 20:56 (two weeks ago)

Elvin Jones
Elvin Bishop

― i hid your comb in the teapot (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 17 August 2025 21:29 (two weeks ago)

(well, not always, but "Elvin's Guitar Blues" misleadingly suggests Bishop)

― i hid your comb in the teapot (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 17 August 2025 21:40 (two weeks ago)

Hakim Bey
Yasiin Bey

― c u (crüt), Monday, 18 August 2025 22:51 (two weeks ago)

There are many variations on this thread but I can’t find one along the lines of “I always get these mixed up, but not only couldn’t I care less, but I actually have a slight sense of satisfaction about the fact and have no desire to gain clarity.”

Enrique Tarrio
Nick Fuentes

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 24 August 2025 00:52 (one week ago)

also Tonys Robbins and Perkins

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 24 August 2025 00:53 (one week ago)

+ Tony Parsons

― Slow Loris Leachman (Leee), Sunday, 24 August 2025 03:50 (one week ago)

Nick Gilder
Nick Straker

― AI Jardine (Tom D.), Monday, 25 August 2025 10:24 (one week ago)

John Wain
John Braine

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 25 August 2025 13:51 (one week ago)

^a classic

― Reggie Clanker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 August 2025 16:37 (one week ago)

I just had a conversation with my wife that hinged on Susan Dey / Laura Dern conflation

― je ne sequoia (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 26 August 2025 12:20 (one week ago)

Canadian singer/songwriters Kathleen Edwards and Sarah Harmer.

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 26 August 2025 23:46 (one week ago)

Dimash Quidaberglen
Quedlinburg, Germany

― Crispy Ambulance Chaser (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 27 August 2025 02:21 (one week ago)

Bobby Hackett
Buddy Hackett

― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 27 August 2025 10:39 (one week ago)

...neither was in Genesis

― je ne sequoia (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 27 August 2025 11:10 (one week ago)

That old family favourite...

Steve Hackett
Steve Hillage

― AI Jardine (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 August 2025 11:21 (one week ago)

Steve Hillage in the 80s
Peter Hammill in the 80s
Roy Harper in the 80s

All went a bit new wave to minimal marketplace interest, can never remember who did what as their surnames all begin with 'H'. Steve Hackett went new age I think.

― 7/10, another solid effort from the willard grant conspiracy (Matt #2), Wednesday, 27 August 2025 11:40 (one week ago)

Yeah, I've got Steve Howe in there as well.

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 29 August 2025 10:43 (six days ago)

The Shaggs
The Fugs
The Troggs

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 29 August 2025 13:10 (six days ago)

Rick Dees
Deez Nuts

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 August 2025 21:10 (six days ago)

The Tracks of my Tears of a Clown

― je ne sequoia (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 30 August 2025 00:17 (five days ago)

Liked it better when all of Smokey's songs were about tears coming out of his eyes versus his more recent direction.

― whimsical skeedaddler (Moodles), Saturday, 30 August 2025 00:20 (five days ago)

nergal (mesopotamian deity of war, death, and disease)
nermal (disgustingly cute grey kitten from the Garfield comic strip)

― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 31 August 2025 00:00 (four days ago)

Everlast
Everclear

― jaymc, Monday, 1 September 2025 03:49 (three days ago)

Kix
Kick Axe

― corgan – a suitable case for treatment (Matt #2), Tuesday, 2 September 2025 01:29 (two days ago)

David Sanborn
David Sancious

― AI Jardine (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 September 2025 19:09 (two days ago)

Ninja Gaiden
Shinobi

― MarkoP, Tuesday, 2 September 2025 19:49 (two days ago)

Darren Aronofsky
David O Russell

But mostly involving their recent career trajectories and which one dated Jennifer Lawrence for a while.

― MarkoP, Tuesday, 2 September 2025 19:56 (two days ago)

I get David O Russell and Alexander Payne mixed up.

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 2 September 2025 20:24 (two days ago)

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