Realising you have called something the wrong thing for years

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Light hearted....recently realised that I’ve been calling ‘Andrew’s Liver Salts’ .... ‘Saint Andrew’s Liver Salts’.

I have obviously no idea where I got the ‘Saint’ part from it just sounded right I expected to see ‘St’ on the product and was surprised it didn’t have it when someone asked me why I was using Saint when I mentioned i find it useful for hangovers

Anyone else ever realise they have been calling things by totally different names ? Just laughed at my stupidly

Somebody I knew was adamant a funeral car was a hearst (with a T at the end).

I didn't know about another think coming until I was 32 and read a thread on mumsnet. I still say another thing coming though. I can't change!

Radio 4 programme.
I know it's called Crossing Continents
I can only hear Cross Incontinents.

My friend thought a saveloy was called a savlon (like the cream) until recently

My dear friend calls Pinterest, pin-interest.

And somehow manages to mention it quite regularly

I've used the word 'hyperbole' and pronounced it hyper-bowl ... many times, last year at the grand old age of 38 I realised my mistake and realised what I twat I must have sounded 🤣

fella I thought it was hyper bowl still

I thought Magaluf was called Malaguff for years 😥😂

MIL insists it’s Wait Rose.

Tuppleware

So many people I know say Tubberware and Labtop!!

My DM can't get her head around Michaella. She says Mikila! She mis-pronounces so many names!!

English is my second language, this typically happens once a week!

The best one I ever did was go into a bet shop and ask for a dog of bag food. Everyone in the shop laughed at me. I can laugh now about it.

@Fella @Guilty

I was taught Hyper-bow-lay, luckily I was corrected...while teaching a GCSE English class

I didn't realise 'rambelerplaws' was 'round of applause' until I was 12. Funny how you just accept complete nonsense as truth.

I called St Pancras, St Pancreas for ages.

It was only when I said it once to a friend and she made a joke about livers that I realised. I was in my 30s.

Hang on so is it actually "another think" coming rather than another thing...? Mind... blown..

I blame Judas Priest. I still want to say another thing coming but it is apparantly think.

Until last year, whenever I read the word 'segue' I always thought seeg instead of segway.
Not a word that I used in everyday conversation luckily.

I'd been 'hearing' the actor Ray Liotta wrong for years. DH wet himself laughing when I typed it in an email to him and he realised I'd been spelling it Ray Lee Otter (think I was thinking of Tommy Lee Jones) in my head for years.

Ray Lee Otter should be in The Wind in the Willows, really.

My MIL calls it Pin-Interest as well. She mentioned it about 10 times in a conversation once and it was really hard not to correct her!
I didn't want to be rude so I didn't say anything.....

One of the mums at school tells me she buys her daughter ‘paintent’ school shoes every year-she goes on about it loudly-it has always really irrationally annoyed me.

Patent
Patent
Patent

For years I thought a two piece swimsuit was a dopikini. I blame Timmy Mallett! I heard yellow poker dopikini. I was about 12 before I realised it was a yellow polka-dot bikini

Also I pronounced epitome as eppy-tome for years as I'd only seen it written down. I think I was at uni before I heard somebody use it in conversation and realised...

I promise I’m not thick and am usually fine with pronunciations so I don’t know why this flummoxed me so much but I didn’t know how to pronounce Geoff.
Gee-off???
Joff?
No, apparently it’s just Jeff.

I have been called the wrong name by a woman at my children's school for years. I did originally correct her but have given up after 7 years as she just doesn't get it.

Up until my early twenties when I needed to buy one I believed I put my clothes in a wall drobe.