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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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Yes!

― cryptosicko, Monday, 9 March 2026 12:59 (three weeks ago)

Swamp Thing
Man Thing

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 10 March 2026 07:07 (three weeks ago)

Country Joe and the Fish
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
Lothar and the Hand People

― henry s, Tuesday, 10 March 2026 13:17 (three weeks ago)

and Tonto's Expanding Head Band

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 10 March 2026 13:43 (three weeks ago)

Also New Riders of the Purple Sage and Ozark Mountain Daredevils

― Lanchester’s satirical chops are on full display in his latest (Matt #2), Tuesday, 10 March 2026 14:55 (three weeks ago)

... and Pure Prairie League.

― Schlub 7 (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 March 2026 15:22 (three weeks ago)

Used to get them mixed up with The Long Ryders as well, though they're coming from someplace different.

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 10 March 2026 16:02 (three weeks ago)

And Red Ryder.

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 10 March 2026 16:02 (three weeks ago)

Lots of old-timey Americana basically (well not Tonto's). Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is another, they all smoosh into an indistinguishable country-rock stew for me.

― Lanchester’s satirical chops are on full display in his latest (Matt #2), Tuesday, 10 March 2026 16:05 (three weeks ago)

Area Code 615

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 10 March 2026 16:13 (three weeks ago)

e.l. james
e.l. wisty

― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 12 March 2026 04:40 (three weeks ago)

e.l. fudge

― Mollusk, Virginia (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 12 March 2026 05:29 (three weeks ago)

Carl Craig
Carl Cox

Van Cleave
Lee Van Cleef

James Garner
James Arness

Florence Henderson
Florence Nightingale

― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 12 March 2026 09:21 (three weeks ago)

Holdens / Hobsons (Midlands breweries)

― fetter, Thursday, 12 March 2026 10:26 (three weeks ago)

Area Code 615

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, March 10, 2026 4:13 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

^^^

― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Thursday, 12 March 2026 16:02 (three weeks ago)

Dorothy Sayers
Dorothy Parker

― Major Kirascuro (Leee), Thursday, 12 March 2026 17:05 (three weeks ago)

best ever season for a reliever (i am bored)
over-the-counter pain reliever poll

― clemenza, Friday, 13 March 2026 00:13 (three weeks ago)

Charlie Rich
Charlie Pride

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 13 March 2026 00:23 (three weeks ago)

Easy way to un-mix them up: Charlie Rich had silver hair.

― clemenza, Friday, 13 March 2026 01:20 (three weeks ago)

blood libel
rape

― mookieproof, Friday, 13 March 2026 03:36 (three weeks ago)

Tony Levin (bassist)
Tony Levin (drummer)

― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Sunday, 15 March 2026 17:28 (two weeks ago)

They should form a band with Roger Taylor and Roger Taylor

― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 15 March 2026 19:32 (two weeks ago)

God, I'm getting worse at this as I age.

Also, years ago I said that I get Amy Poehler and "Kate Middleton" confused but obv I meant Kate McKinnon

I kinda can't believe there is an avant-garde painter/artist named Paul McCarthy and a director of films named Steve McQueen

― Crappo FX (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 15 March 2026 21:35 (two weeks ago)

Also artist Nick Cave.

― Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 15 March 2026 21:37 (two weeks ago)

John Maynard Keynes
Milton Keynes

Took forever to realize the latter is not named after the former.

― Major Kirascuro (Leee), Monday, 16 March 2026 18:12 (two weeks ago)

WBC
WmC

― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 March 2026 00:22 (two weeks ago)

lol

― WmC, Wednesday, 18 March 2026 14:40 (two weeks ago)

tony danza
scott baio

― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 19 March 2026 00:44 (two weeks ago)

chris jericho
chris benoit

this is kind of unfortunate because uh people tend to not talk about chris benoit these days for Reasons whereas people _will_ talk about chris jericho, at which point my mind always goes "wait, didn't he..." and no, no, that was chris benoit. but it's unpleasant. i don't like how my brain spontaneously thinks of unpleasant things. somebody linked to a new thomas the tank engine game called "wonders of sodor", and part of me wanted to read it as "wonders of sodom", which is tasteless but also funny and fine, and part of me wanted to read it as (please don't click on the unhide link) wonders of sobibor which is _not_ fine and i feel really icky for even _thinking_ that phrase, even though i know it's not my fault for thinking it, it's not something i deliberately did or anything. idk it makes me think of the joke Joker the Harlequin (who I always want to call Harlequin the Joker) tells the Penguin in _The People's Joker_, which is pretty much a textbook example (deliberately so) of unfunny edgelord humor. for most of my life i've had a predilection towards what gets called "gallows humor", humor as coping mechanism, and there are effective and ineffective ways to do that.

― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 19 March 2026 14:13 (two weeks ago)

extremely specific Catalan architecture edition:

Lluis Domenech i Montener
Josep Puig i Cadafalch

― Mollusk, Virginia (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 19 March 2026 22:08 (two weeks ago)

hard water
soft water

― octobeard, Friday, 20 March 2026 05:04 (two weeks ago)

Gabriel Yacoub
Gabriel Yared

― Schlub 7 (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 March 2026 11:06 (one week ago)

Mac DeMarco
Mac Miller

(This came up again when I interviewed a jazz musician recently and he mentioned that his bassist had left to work with Mac DeMarco. I thought "Isn't that guy dead?")

― wipes chooser (unperson), Sunday, 22 March 2026 14:37 (one week ago)

shamefaced realization yesterday:

ouzo
grappa

― I will edit thread titles like no one has ever seen before (WmC), Sunday, 22 March 2026 14:49 (one week ago)

IUD
IED

― Francis Fuck Coprolalia (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 22 March 2026 14:54 (one week ago)

genki girl
gyaru

― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 22 March 2026 23:31 (one week ago)

also:

systemic
systematic

would really like if someone could explain the difference because i do u se them interchangeably and i know they're different words

― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 22 March 2026 23:32 (one week ago)

this is how i use them

systemic: concerning an entire system
systematic: done in a thorough way, according to a plan or system

― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Sunday, 22 March 2026 23:40 (one week ago)

xp- my take:

systemic means 'inherent in (this) system'
systematic means 'uses/using a system'

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 22 March 2026 23:44 (one week ago)

Andrew Tod, midfielder currently playing for Dunfermline Athletic FC
John Tod, defender currently playing for Dunfermline Athletic FC
Matty Todd, midfielder currently playing for Dunfermline Athletic FC

― Schlub 7 (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 March 2026 15:49 (one week ago)

Hugh McCracken
Henry McCullough

― Schlub 7 (Tom D.), Monday, 30 March 2026 13:29 (five days ago)

CPAC
C-SPAN

Not CMAT, at least.

― Alba, Tuesday, 31 March 2026 12:03 (four days ago)

Alun Armstrong and Pete Postlethwaite. It hit me this weekend.

― fetter, Tuesday, 31 March 2026 17:39 (four days ago)

Kenny Beats
Kenny Segal

― MarkoP, Wednesday, 1 April 2026 15:13 (three days ago)

GBV
MBV
GYBE

― a burrito, my gazebo (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 April 2026 15:17 (two days ago)

MBV
MEV

― Schlub 7 (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 April 2026 15:29 (two days ago)

MEV
AMM

― dan selzer, Thursday, 2 April 2026 15:56 (two days ago)

does AMM stand for anything?

(preemptive joke answer: they won’t stand for anything!)

― Mollusk, Virginia (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 2 April 2026 16:17 (two days ago)

The most exciting part of an AMM performance: when they stand up. "Oh, good, they're done!"

― wipes chooser (unperson), Thursday, 2 April 2026 16:42 (two days ago)

> CPAC
> C-SPAN

made me think of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPAN

― koogs, Friday, 3 April 2026 06:53 (yesterday)

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