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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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Armand Hammer
Arm & Hammer

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 8 May 2025 19:17 (one month ago)

I could have sworn I was just listening to Prokofiev's Violin concerto no 1 on R3, in fact I was certain. Then I looked at the Now Playing on the digital display. And it turns out it was Shostakovich. I was getting these two mixed up 20 years ago and still am.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 8 May 2025 19:23 (one month ago)

Asos
Atos

― Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Monday, 12 May 2025 15:51 (one month ago)

xps As some of you may know, Armand Hammer once owned a part of and served on the board of directors of the company that made Arm & Hammer products. Tycoons were fun in those days.

― Josefa, Monday, 12 May 2025 17:39 (one month ago)

there was another board member at the time who tried to raise prices, Armand A. Legg

― budo jeru, Monday, 12 May 2025 19:25 (one month ago)

and then the guy who stood up to him and tried to oppose the price hike was named Ewan Watt-Armand

― budo jeru, Monday, 12 May 2025 19:27 (one month ago)

*groan*

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 12 May 2025 19:29 (one month ago)

Fun fact: pioneering French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss has nothing to do with the American clothing manufacturer Levi Strauss.

― zydecodependent (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 12 May 2025 19:38 (one month ago)

but he looked great in a pair of boot-cut 501's

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 12 May 2025 19:45 (one month ago)

Robert Benton
Robert Towne

― visiting, Tuesday, 13 May 2025 19:14 (one month ago)

Robert Benton
Robert Guillaume (i.e. Benson)

― Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 May 2025 19:26 (one month ago)

There is a Benson episode in which Rene Auberjonois's character is under the amnesic delusion that he is a Black man. He appears to recognize Robert Guillaume's character (Benson) and says "Ben! Ben Vereen!"

The joke being either that Robert Guillaume looks a bit like Ben Vereen, or that to a white man all Black men look alike (?).

In any case, the level of detail with which I can remember a sitcome episode that I saw ONCE in 1984 worries me. I have no fucking idea where my car keys are rn but I could probably sketch a decent floor plan of the Drummonds' apartment.

― zydecodependent (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 13 May 2025 20:40 (one month ago)

Sleep Token
Spiritbox

― MarkoP, Friday, 16 May 2025 19:39 (one month ago)

As you do—

Axel Borup-Jorgensen
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

― I am the stranger, killing the Boer (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 20 May 2025 18:26 (one month ago)

Beth Orton
Beth Gibbons
― MarkoP, Saturday, June 2, 2018 12:57 PM (six years ago)

Beth Gibbons (bought a CD by her today)
Beth Orton (mistakenly thought I was buying a CD by her today)

― clemenza, Saturday, 31 May 2025 21:38 (four weeks ago)

Gene Shalit
Gene Siskel

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 3 June 2025 14:31 (three weeks ago)

The Epstein Files
The Penske File

― clemenza, Thursday, 5 June 2025 19:36 (three weeks ago)

Egerton
Edgerton
Elgort
Elordi

― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 8 June 2025 19:19 (two weeks ago)

Shit Brit band of yesteryear Northside
Shit Brit band of yesteryear Northern Uproar

― submission drift (Matt #2), Sunday, 8 June 2025 20:12 (two weeks ago)

Yesterday I saw a book by Lynne Truss in a secondhand bookshop, and thought it was by Liz Truss.

― Madchen, Sunday, 8 June 2025 22:00 (two weeks ago)

Medicaid
Medicare
― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, April 25, 2023

every time i am asked which of these i have i can't remember which is which.

― visiting, Friday, 13 June 2025 18:20 (two weeks ago)

Kind of the inverse of this thread purpose, but I have for years thought that Florence Pugh and Florence Pugh were two different people

― God only knows what I'd be without me (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 14 June 2025 15:38 (two weeks ago)

inchoate
incoherent

― clemenza, Saturday, 14 June 2025 16:07 (two weeks ago)

Cursory
Peremptory
Desultory

― Krustacean the Clown (Leee), Saturday, 14 June 2025 17:56 (two weeks ago)

dua lipa
issa rae

(apologies to them; honestly i've only heard of either due to crosswords)

― mookieproof, Monday, 16 June 2025 00:29 (one week ago)

Crossword puzzle playlist: Issa, Enya, Anka, Eno, Ono, and "Eso Beso."

― zydecodependent (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 16 June 2025 00:33 (one week ago)

also sia

― mookieproof, Monday, 16 June 2025 00:34 (one week ago)

No Bono?

― Alba, Monday, 16 June 2025 12:48 (one week ago)

Not that I'm pro Bono.

― Alba, Monday, 16 June 2025 12:49 (one week ago)

Not really, as B isn't as common a letter in "fill."

Per my cursory research there have been about 298 nytxw appearances of ONO, 112 of ENYA, and less than 50 of BONO.

― zydecodependent (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 16 June 2025 13:30 (one week ago)

Did Nick and Nora's dog Asta ever cut a novelty single?

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 16 June 2025 13:42 (one week ago)

should also add in some songs that prominently feature the word "Ole!"

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 16 June 2025 13:42 (one week ago)

I'm With Her
She and Him

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 16 June 2025 15:23 (one week ago)

To Be or Not to Be
To Have and Have Not

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 24 June 2025 00:52 (four days ago)

welp i literally did this on ilx

List of 1982 box office number-one films in the United States

george romney
hugh romney

― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 24 June 2025 19:31 (four days ago)

Doug Sahm
Doug Clifford

Because both Doug Sahm and Doug Clifford's CCR bandmate, Stu Cook, had connections to Roky Erickson. I think I'll be able to keep them straight now, having written this out.

― peace, man, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 11:49 (three days ago)

Adam Curtis
Adam Conover
Adam Savage

― jaymc, Thursday, 26 June 2025 04:17 (two days ago)

Daniel Barenboim
Gustavo Dudamel

― Madchen, Thursday, 26 June 2025 09:16 (two days ago)

Doug Sahm
Doug Clifford

Doug Kershaw wouldn't be entirely out of place there.

― clemenza, Thursday, 26 June 2025 11:06 (two days ago)

Or Doug Dillard.

― Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 June 2025 11:15 (two days ago)

St James Park (Exeter), St James' Park (Newcastle), St James's Park (London).

― fetter, Thursday, 26 June 2025 11:59 (two days ago)

In the early days of buying rail tickets on the internet, the ticketing computer had a similar problem. This caused much joy (rare enough, god knows) among London-based supporters of Exeter City FC, who booked return tickets from Paddington to St James Park (Exeter) and were charged the price of two single zone-1 tube journeys. Good while it lasted.

― Tim, Thursday, 26 June 2025 14:52 (two days ago)

Fred Melamed
Bob Balaban

― henry s, Thursday, 26 June 2025 15:20 (two days ago)

David Chappelle
David LaChapelle

― Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Friday, 27 June 2025 14:42 (yesterday)

autarky
autocracy

― The "W" and Odie Trail (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 27 June 2025 14:50 (yesterday)

John Pizzarelli
John Petrucci
Michael Petrucciani

― brimstead, Friday, 27 June 2025 15:09 (yesterday)

Rico Petrocelli?

― clemenza, Friday, 27 June 2025 15:11 (yesterday)

(xp) otm

― Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Friday, 27 June 2025 15:12 (yesterday)

John Petrucci
John Patitucci

― peace, man, Friday, 27 June 2025 16:34 (yesterday)

John Petrucci
John Patitucci

If they'd ever traded places, the Wayne Shorter Quartet could have gotten a lot more interesting.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 27 June 2025 17:35 (yesterday)

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