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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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Ha, totally have thought the exact same thing.

― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 October 2025 20:22 (two weeks ago)

iron man
dr strange

― brimstead, Thursday, 23 October 2025 01:40 (two weeks ago)

(speaking of mustached guys_

― brimstead, Thursday, 23 October 2025 01:41 (two weeks ago)

Rock Hudson
Gregory Peck

― so far so noir (Matt #2), Thursday, 23 October 2025 02:35 (two weeks ago)

Upthread, I am pleasantly surprised that anyone outside my family and musical theater nerds remembers the Kevin Kline Pirates of Penzance.

Linda Ronstadt was exquisite, plus Angela Lansbury

― putting the cad in decadent (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 October 2025 12:47 (two weeks ago)

that Pirates must've been an HBO special. There's a series of movies that I watched hundreds of times and it must've been because they were constantly on HBO (Over the Edge) or TBS (Beastmaster).

― dan selzer, Thursday, 23 October 2025 14:05 (two weeks ago)

Pirates was a 1983 theatrical release--actually a simultaneous theatrical/pay-TV release: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Penzance_(film)#Release

― She's the Tariff (cryptosicko), Thursday, 23 October 2025 14:27 (two weeks ago)

My parents have it on Beta.

― putting the cad in decadent (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 October 2025 18:04 (two weeks ago)

Molly Mae / Bonnie Blue

Pause for thought when I see one of them advertising washing powder (?) in the supermarket

― fetter, Thursday, 23 October 2025 18:16 (two weeks ago)

Billy Strings
Teddy Swims

Just realized both of these are very different current people

― putting the cad in decadent (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 27 October 2025 17:21 (one week ago)

Teddy Swims
Barry Can't Swim

Very different artists, stupidly similar names

― ailsa, Monday, 27 October 2025 17:39 (one week ago)

Teddy Swims but Hope Floats

― Hideous Lump, Monday, 27 October 2025 17:56 (one week ago)

ben stiller
ben affleck

...i don't watch a lot of movies

― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 28 October 2025 14:43 (one week ago)

Little Women
Little House on the Prairie
thought they were basically the same thing for decades.
― dan selzer, Saturday, October 18, 2025 9:06 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
The common elements being (a) gingham pinafores and (b) pathos
― putting the cad in decadent (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, October 19, 2025 2:46 AM (one week ago)

it's kind of interesting, pre-transition it was easier for me to just lump it all into this big category of "19th century girl stuff". i still haven't read any of the books or seen the gerwig film or the tv show, but contextually they're now _very_ different in my head. little women was the Real Shit.

― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 28 October 2025 14:51 (one week ago)

Bexhill
Bexley

(re-posted here from that other thread which seems to exist only to confuse the likes of me)

― Webinar in Wetherspoons (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 October 2025 14:51 (one week ago)

Don't forget Box Hill

― frehley's kometenmelodie (Matt #2), Tuesday, 28 October 2025 15:25 (one week ago)

There used to be a hard disk company called Box Hill. They would usually give you a t-shirt with company name on it when you bought something. Mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_Hill_Systems

― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 October 2025 15:59 (one week ago)

there's also something about

Laura Ingalls Wilder
Louisa May Alcott

that adds to the confusion for me

― budo jeru, Tuesday, 28 October 2025 16:00 (one week ago)

I get Harriet Beecher Stowe mixed up with them too, as they're all tri-named 19th-century American women writers whom I've never read.

― Simile Deschanel (Leee), Tuesday, 28 October 2025 16:06 (one week ago)

Bongino
Bovino
Scavino

― budo jeru, Tuesday, 28 October 2025 20:50 (one week ago)

why do i mix them up? because they are all CLOWNS

― budo jeru, Tuesday, 28 October 2025 20:50 (one week ago)

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― mookieproof, Thursday, 30 October 2025 01:55 (one week ago)

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― Webinar in Wetherspoons (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 November 2025 09:37 (six days ago)

Welcome to Derry
Derry Girls

― This dark glowing bohemian coffeehouse (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 2 November 2025 17:26 (six days ago)

The Fugs
The Holy Modal Rounders

― nickn, Sunday, 2 November 2025 21:45 (six days ago)

^^ I've just always assumed they had 2-3 members in common...

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 2 November 2025 21:45 (six days ago)

Dean Koontz
Jeff Koonz

― budo jeru, Monday, 3 November 2025 02:34 (five days ago)

rusty kuntz

― mookieproof, Monday, 3 November 2025 02:38 (five days ago)

Mick Foley
Jack Nance Garner
Jack Nance

there's also something about
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Louisa May Alcott
that adds to the confusion for me
― budo jeru

if it helps just think of her as "Lou". that's what everyone called her. it's not a coincidence that the protag of Little Women was "Jo". "Woman" could mean a lot of different things where and when she lived.

― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 3 November 2025 16:55 (five days ago)

ILX quote tags
ILX spoiler tags

so many times i have to fix a post because i started a quote with "q" and ended it with "h"

― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 3 November 2025 16:56 (five days ago)

Aaron Ramsey
Aaron Ramsey

― Massage Attack (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 November 2025 09:00 (four days ago)

Rosalía (Post-Flamenco Art-Pop From Spain)
Rosali (indie rocker who also makes frequent year end list appearances)

― bendy, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 15:28 (three days ago)

Lucero (Mexican pop singer)
Lucero (worthless alt-country band)

Not so much that I confuse them as I used to click on articles expecting to read something about the former and wind up being exposed to the latter.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 17:07 (three days ago)

finally sorting out in my head, european to american disco svengali edition...

Jacques Morali, french, Ritchie Family, Patrick Juvet and the Village People
Jacques Fred Petrus, french west indies by way of italy and NY, with Mauro Malavasi. Macho, Peter Jacues Band, Change. Also the Ritchie Family.

― dan selzer, Friday, 7 November 2025 16:09 (yesterday)

doug walker (channel awesome)
greg walker (runs niche prog reissue label syn-phonic)

― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 7 November 2025 21:26 (yesterday)

Sam Spade
Philip Marlowe

― This dark glowing bohemian coffeehouse (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 7 November 2025 22:09 (yesterday)

also

Raymond Chandler
Dashiell Hammett

― budo jeru, Friday, 7 November 2025 22:29 (yesterday)

Don’t help that Bogart played them both. On one hand if you’ve read enough of each you know the characters and writing are very different. On the other hand it doesn’t matter. They’re just Bogart in a hat being a badass.

― dan selzer, Friday, 7 November 2025 23:02 (yesterday)

I have read neither, so yeah I think Bogart is largely responsible for the conflation

― budo jeru, Saturday, 8 November 2025 00:08 (eleven hours ago)

Yeah same for me. This was inspired by finding out The Big Sleep is on the Criterion Channel

― This dark glowing bohemian coffeehouse (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 8 November 2025 00:31 (ten hours ago)

Both are worth reading. I went through a phase. I think Chandler acknowledges Hammett as the influence. I think Hammett is harder and more stripped down while Chandler is a more poetic. The Maltese Falcon and the Big Sleep are both classic movies.

― dan selzer, Saturday, 8 November 2025 02:42 (eight hours ago)

I’ve read Chester Himes and James Crumley but not much else in terms of hard boiled whatever … have always wanted to read the big daddies

― budo jeru, Saturday, 8 November 2025 02:53 (eight hours ago)

I read a few others. James M Cain and Cornell Woolrich were both badass too.

― dan selzer, Saturday, 8 November 2025 02:57 (eight hours ago)

Hammett at his best is hard as hell. Read Red Harvest first, then The Glass Key (Miller's Crossing is sort of a combination of both books, run through the Coen-izer), then The Dain Curse. I don't like The Maltese Falcon as much as others do.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 8 November 2025 03:07 (eight hours ago)

i can imagine it'd be beneficial to read something that hasn't been so thoroughly laundered into pop culture consciousness

― budo jeru, Saturday, 8 November 2025 04:05 (seven hours ago)

Hard w/ Hammett as that's a1 source material. I remember the Glass Key having dialogue that sounded like the Miller's Crossing template, but Red Harvest I think was the source of Yojimbo and thus also A Fistful of Dollars. And the movie Last Man Standing.

I like that the wikipedia for Red Harvest also mentions the Rian Johnson movie Brick. It stars a young-ish Joseph Gordon-Levitt and takes place around a bunch of rich high school kids, but it gets to the essence of Chandler better than any movie I've ever seen, including all the great vintage noirs.

― dan selzer, Saturday, 8 November 2025 05:44 (five hours ago)

Humphrey Bogart
Dirk Bogarde

― Madchen, Saturday, 8 November 2025 07:01 (four hours ago)

Both have a Bacall connection, which doesn’t help matters.

― Madchen, Saturday, 8 November 2025 07:07 (four hours ago)

Yeah those names confused me when younger, as did Katharine/Audrey Hepburn and Ingrid/Ingmar Bergman.

― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 8 November 2025 07:35 (three hours ago)

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