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Things you really should have known sooner...

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TheDodgyEnd · 10/10/2017 12:50

I’ve just learned that Casablanca is not in South America at all and is, in fact in Morocco! Who knew 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️
Anyone else got any tidbits they learned far too late in life?

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TheDodgyEnd · 11/10/2017 10:49

@oxcat1 you’ve just reminded me that until an embarrassingly late age (early thirties) I thought ‘ballache’ was pronounced like ‘bal-ash’ and meant something very fancy like when you do something with ‘flair’ etc. It was only reading MN I learned it was ‘ball-ache’ - and yes, I have used ‘bal-ash’ in a sentence with other humans before Confused

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ImNotShpanishImEgyptshun · 11/10/2017 10:47

There's nothing deep and meaningful about the chicken joke, it's just something people have come up with, like a fan theory. It was what it was, just silly.

holdthewine · 11/10/2017 10:47

X2boys well I just learnt about Holyhead from you!

oxcat1 · 11/10/2017 10:44

I thought sea horses were the size of real horses...

And that ‘albeit’ was a separate word, pronounced ‘al-bite’, but similar in usage to ‘all be it.’

TellMeItsNotTrue · 11/10/2017 10:43

Pleeeeeease tell me that the poor innocent Terracotta Turtle husband will be getting a Terracotta turtle for Christmas? Now that we've seen its possible to buy them!

I'm considering getting one myself, because I know it will bring a smile every time I see it Grin

Kaybush · 11/10/2017 10:42

Until I met my now DH, I always thought the sun went around the earth rather than vice versa.

Even now I had to quickly Google it before posting as I can never remember which is correct!

Such a simple mistake to make...Grin

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SteamingPistons · 11/10/2017 10:37

Now I love them Grin

SteamingPistons · 11/10/2017 10:37

For years I wouldn't eat mince pies because I didn't want to eat fruity-flavoured beef pies. Of course "mince meat" is not actually meat!!

holdthewine · 11/10/2017 10:33

Catchit DH and I always say that about Pontefract, it sounds so Welsh how can it be in Yorkshire?! The other thing which we were stunned by (years ago) was that Billericay isn’t in Ireland but in Essex!

Eminybob · 11/10/2017 10:32

I've only just found out that the material jersey is named after the island of Jersey because it was originally produced there.
And I'm from Jersey!

holdthewine · 11/10/2017 10:31

Well I’ve been in and out of Portsmouth many times in ferries and never knew it was an island! I’m 61! So it’s like New York City. Wow just wow! Shock

x2boys · 11/10/2017 10:30

I used to live near Summerseat in Bury Greater Manchester I used to get very confused when people talked about going to Somerset on holiday, when I was a child.Confused

StealthPolarBear · 11/10/2017 10:28

I thought pontypandy was fictional! I actually Googled before I posted and there is a pontypandy lane in Caerphilly, must have glanced at that and decided it was real

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TheDodgyEnd · 11/10/2017 10:26

Is it not normal to pronounce the L in balcony?? Confused

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holdthewine · 11/10/2017 10:25

Rainallday Oh yes you do if you’re from Somerset or Bristol! I used to get laughed at when I left the region for pronouncing the L in yolk, folk, balcony, Holmes. Think it’s regional. And I don’t have an accent as such, just certain words... do you say reely for really too?

x2boys · 11/10/2017 10:22

Regarding where Ipswich is i vaguely thought it maybe somewhere near Prestwich it isntHmm

Lweji · 11/10/2017 09:56

I haven't eaten a tortoise. My granddad did eat turtle, though.

Speaking of tortoises, does anyone else have to think twice when porpoise is mentioned?

nigelsbigface · 11/10/2017 09:56

Missflashpants-I thought that too about 'misled' and have always said it that way until recently-I cant believe no one ever corrected me!!

pinkingshears · 11/10/2017 09:53

You would think with the amount of Terracotta in B&Q those poor wee creatures would have become extinct years ago.

You HAVE to buy him a baby terracotta turtle for Christmas! Grin

MomToWedThorFriday · 11/10/2017 09:46

Ffs. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsea_Island

“Flat, low-lying ISLAND.” That is all.

Also, Pontypandy is a made up place Grin it’s an amalgamation of the two real towns Pontypridd and Tonypandy. Tonypandy sounds more made up to me!

AuntieFester · 11/10/2017 09:31

Years ago a friend and I booked a holiday to Madeira, neither of us knew it was an island or where it was until we got on the plane. Doh!

Cinnamoncookie · 11/10/2017 09:24

Have not RTF, but what did the caper/fish people think Bridget Jones' caper berry gravy was?

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TheDodgyEnd · 11/10/2017 09:22

I really really hope NOBODY is going to pipe up saying they’ve eaten a tortoise Confused although I guess it would be wasteful not to use the meat once the rest has been turned into pots Hmm

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AdaColeman · 11/10/2017 09:19

Surely tortoise would taste like chicken? That's what alligator and snake taste of!