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

In my head I always read Vom Fas as Vomit Fast.

@Moneymanifestor I still do that. My sister thinks it's hilarious.

My Granny had lots of these which have become family sayings, my favourite is Mongolia for the paint shade magnolia, closely followed by paramacetol and she pronounced the the "G" in gnome...guhnome....makes.me smile remembering.

I used to think handbags were called hambags for years.

My nan once tried to help me with my homework and spent ages telling me about the Catholics and prostitutes in Ireland.

I used to call Woolworths Woolvrtz

Rafiki in the Lion King gained a doctorate/PhD for some reason in our house and when we watched it the other day we were both surprised to find he wasn't called Doctor Rafiki! No idea why

Ha @shutuptodd I feel your pain, bloke at work every time I see him always really enthusiastically says “Hello, Jo! How’s things?” My name is Harriet lol. Don’t have the heart to correct him now, so for the purposes of our chats I am Jo.

Oh and my ‘thing’ I have said wrong/misheard...I always thought when you ‘pie someone off’ it was ‘buoy someone off.’ I don’t even understand my reasoning behind that!

I lived next door to Ian and Karen for 17 years. They came to parties and BBQs and we went to their gatherings.
We moved house several years ago and as we were saying our goodbyes Ian said "by the way, my name is Sean".

@toooldtobearsed Christ I’m cringing for you! I think I’d rather be the person with the wrong name than the person corrected 😂

I thought as a kid Seattle was Settle and I didn't know how to say the name Chloe when I read it so just called it Charcoal.

My MIL says 'brilliant' as 'brillunt' and my DM says 'restaurant' as 'restorornt'

Oh and DD insisted that you drove fast on a 'motorwave'

@hazandduck I still cringe now....
They took it in good part though. The first Christmas after we moved we received a card from 'Sean (aka Ian) and Karen'.

My mum says skellington and sammich. My sister says secutary. I worked with a woman who says pacific for specific.

@Toooldtobearsed2 Oh my goodness! I agree, I'd rather be called the wrong name! I'm constantly called Catherine, Cassie or Cassidy and no longer bother to correct anyone.

FWB. I am fully aware and have always known that this means Friend With Benefits.

However, when I see it in a post I always read it as Fuck Wit Buddy. Fuck Buddy makes perfect sense but I can't figure out what the 'Wit' means

DP only discovered yesterday when he said it in conversation and I corrected him that it’s “moot point” and not “mute”. He also had his mind blown when he found out how to pronounce the word “quay” but it was literally the first time he had ever come across it either written or spoken so I totally understand why he thought it was pronounced “kway” - tbh, I say it that way in my head. English is his first language, he’s just never known that particular word! He still doesn’t quite believe me I don’t think.

DP only discovered yesterday when he said it in conversation and I corrected him that it’s “moot point” and not “mute”.

I always think of Joey from friends with his ‘moo’ point when people say this!

I thought until yesterday that the website ‘LinkedIn’ was pronounced as it’s spelt - linked in.

I even smirked when I heard someone pronounce it ‘linky din’.

Then someone on Fleabag pronounced it the ‘wrong’ way, and I realised I’m the twat.

I hate that.

Uh is it not pronounced Linked in? That’s how all the business development execs at work say it!

It is LinkedIn (link-tin), though-isn’t it??

Well, I was today years old with, you've got another think coming! But, makes more sense now

My DM always called tampons tampoons, rhymes with harpoons until I gleefully told her she was wrong.

Wait what...

Another THINK coming???