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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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Big Thief
Clean Bandit

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 23 April 2026 11:16 (one month ago)

The Manchurian Candidate
The Parallax View

― a tv star not a dirty computer man (the table is the table), Sunday, 26 April 2026 16:17 (one month ago)

(it's more that whenever anyone mentions the former, I can only recall scenes from the latter, whereas when anyone mentions the latter, I can easily recall scenes from same... probably means I need to re-watch the former, haven't seen it since I was 16)

― a tv star not a dirty computer man (the table is the table), Sunday, 26 April 2026 16:18 (one month ago)

An excellent double feature.

― dan selzer, Sunday, 26 April 2026 23:23 (one month ago)

admittedly I saw the Manchurian Candidate as an adult but I’ve got the image of Angela Lansbury kissing her on screen son full on the mouth burned into my brain

― The New Blockader (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 27 April 2026 00:05 (one month ago)

Ranger Suarez (Phillies pitcher)
Ranger Goyette (kid I taught in 1998, my first classroom)

― clemenza, Tuesday, 28 April 2026 00:50 (one month ago)

Red Sox pitcher--that's how mixed up I am.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 28 April 2026 00:54 (one month ago)

Tim Burgess is in the british band The Charlatans.

Mark Burgess is in the british band The Chameleons.

They're not that similar, but it's confused me at times.

― dan selzer, Friday, 1 May 2026 16:00 (one month ago)

Skredriver and a shoegaze band whose actual name i can't even remember because my mind always reads it as Skredriver.

― ceral con cloro, Monday, 4 May 2026 19:38 (four weeks ago)

Swervedriver

― Alba, Monday, 4 May 2026 19:40 (four weeks ago)

That one, yes. Thanks

― ceral con cloro, Monday, 4 May 2026 19:47 (four weeks ago)

Are you talking about Skrewdriver? "Hey, the first album is pretty good"

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 4 May 2026 19:52 (four weeks ago)

The racist punk band? if so then yes. I couldn't even get that right wow

― ceral con cloro, Monday, 4 May 2026 19:55 (four weeks ago)

Hey, leave me out of this!

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/c/cc/Scredlily.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20240109042348

(picture of Scred, the SNL muppet, with Lily Tomlin)

― nickn, Monday, 4 May 2026 21:38 (four weeks ago)

Try this

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/c/cc/Scredlily.jpg

― nickn, Monday, 4 May 2026 21:39 (four weeks ago)

DHS
DHSS

Every time.

― Throw It Down Binman (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 4 May 2026 22:00 (four weeks ago)

Cousin to the Everclear/Everlast confusion, '90s alt-rock frontmen with beached blond hair:

Art Alexakis
Dexter Holland

― Major Kirascuro (Leee), Tuesday, 5 May 2026 02:56 (three weeks ago)

Hugo Weaving
Miguel Ferrer

their faces more than their names

― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Saturday, 9 May 2026 22:43 (three weeks ago)

Jack Ryan
Jack Reacher

― whimsical skeedaddler (Moodles), Sunday, 10 May 2026 01:23 (three weeks ago)

Briefly got these two mixed up yesterday:

Simon Callow
Simon Cadell

Simon Cowell not included though.

― Clarinet Cop (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 May 2026 07:19 (three weeks ago)

Geoff Dyer
Danny Dyer

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 10 May 2026 08:23 (three weeks ago)

Jason Momoa
Dave Bautista

― jaymc, Monday, 11 May 2026 12:37 (three weeks ago)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
August: Osage County

― peace, man, Monday, 11 May 2026 19:18 (three weeks ago)

Justin Meldal-Johnsen
Brad Mehldau

― April is Cruella's month (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 11 May 2026 23:13 (three weeks ago)

matthew rhys
jonathan rhys meyers

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 May 2026 02:01 (two weeks ago)

Manhattan jazz club edition:
Village Gate
Village Vanguard

― Brenton Wood Conference (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 12 May 2026 13:50 (two weeks ago)

Alan Douglas, record producer
Jack Douglas, record producer

― Clarinet Cop (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 May 2026 20:43 (two weeks ago)

Felix Dexter
Dexter Fletcher

― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 May 2026 20:57 (two weeks ago)

BlackRock
Blackstone

Is there even a difference?

― sonic catterdales (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 13 May 2026 13:17 (two weeks ago)

Alan Howarth
Allan Holdsworth

― c u (crüt), Thursday, 14 May 2026 17:29 (two weeks ago)

rita ora
dua lipa
dua saleh
mo salah

― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 May 2026 22:32 (two weeks ago)

G.W. Pabst
F.W. Murnau

― the prog judge has spoken (Matt #2), Monday, 18 May 2026 12:55 (two weeks ago)

Blatz
Schlitz

― Brenton Wood Conference (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 18 May 2026 13:31 (two weeks ago)

Lee Grant
Ellen Burstyn

― nickn, Monday, 18 May 2026 17:53 (two weeks ago)

rita ora
dua lipa
dua saleh
mo salah

Mo Salah
Mo Farah

― jaymc, Monday, 18 May 2026 18:08 (two weeks ago)

Chaim Topol
Chaim Potok

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 22 May 2026 13:51 (one week ago)

Maria Muldaur
Melissa Manchester

― Tom D, focussed with getting on with the job (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 May 2026 10:14 (one week ago)

Gary Lucas
Ted Lucas

― henry s, Saturday, 23 May 2026 15:05 (one week ago)

Jane Austen
Jane Eyre

― where's ken morse when you need him (Matt #2), Saturday, 23 May 2026 16:13 (one week ago)

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
What It's Like Being Alone

specifically, people keep mentioning "don't hug me i'm scared" and i think they're talking about "what it's like being alone", which they're not, because "what it's like being alone" is deeply obscure and prior to last year circulated only as a basically unwatchably bad rip (the currently circulating version is relatively poor quality but doesn't feature a loud buzzing sound running in the background).

one of these days i'll probably watch "don't hug me i'm scared", just like one of these days i'll probably listen to the swedish ghost

― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 25 May 2026 23:08 (one week ago)

The No-Neck Blues Band
The Nihilist Spasm Band

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 26 May 2026 03:06 (six days ago)

Siri Hustvedt
Sigrid Undset

― stick your cheffing job (ledge), Friday, 29 May 2026 14:28 (three days ago)

Ultra Vivid Scene
His Name is Alive

― where's ken morse when you need him (Matt #2), Friday, 29 May 2026 15:15 (three days ago)

OTM to all 3 of these

― Tom D, focussed with getting on with the job (Tom D.), Friday, 29 May 2026 15:30 (three days ago)

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 (three days 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 (three days 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 (three days ago)

old time jass edition:

Elmer Snowden
Elmer Schoebel

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

Harley Peyton
Peyton Reed

― The Yellow Kid, Friday, 29 May 2026 19:37 (three days ago)

Vince McMahon
Dana White

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

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