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

Well I've learnt something new I always thought it was mute point.

It is pronounced Linked In, it's definitely not linky din - I think someone is having you on.

I've used the word 'hyperbole' and pronounced it hyper-bowl ... many times

I’m mid 40’s -everyday is a school day. Although I can’t say I have ever uttered the word - incorrectly or otherwise- that is how I read it

Dave Gorman did a whole section on Modern life is goodish about people getting phrases wrong including catchphrase and bowl in a China shop.

My DM always called tampons tampoons, rhymes with harpoons

God, that conjures up somewhat alarming images.

That was meant to say catphrase but my phone corrected it.

I used to pronounce Grand Prix as Grand Pricks - dad didn't put me right for years until my uncle was at the house and they both fell about laughing when I said it. I was 19 at the time

As a child, I always called a car windscreen as a 'window screen'. Just sounds right to me!

Not me but my dm has always called a dressing gown a dressing gound. She also refers to obese people as obeast.

Someone please can you clarify the pronunciation of LinkedIn for me!!

I've always thought it was Ryan's Belt, I discovered it wasn't a couple of months ago when DP called it Orien's Belt so I took this piss thinking he'd called it 'A Ryan's Belt' like there's more than one, until he explained but I still had to Google

**Orion's Belt

Not me but my DP. Says things are “cushty” when he means “cushy”.... e.g “that’s a cushty job”. Drives me mad and he always gets it wrong no matter how many times I roll my eyes and tell him. His brother does it too, so I assume their parent(s) must have always confused it when they were growing up. And no, their Dad isn’t Del Boy 😂

MIL called a certificate a cers tificate. And a secretary a secyatary. In fact if I sat here for an hour I could make a massive list of her mispronunciations!

I thought Addenbrookes Hospital was Adam Brooke's Hospital for many years

I though this too until I read this!

I know how to say hyperbole, but in my head it is always hyper-bowl, just as in my head it is always skissors and wed-NES-day.

My ex called icing "ice-n-ing" and monsters "munsters". To make things worse the kids have started doing the same.

MIL calls little choux bums 'peripherals' and takes anti-flammables for her Arthur-itis.

Linked In is pronounced Linked In. Just as it is written, two words but they do merge a bit into 'link-din'.

Hyperbole is pronounced hyperber-lee

AlltheWhores, I think that’s a variant rather than an error, though — dictionary suggests it’s possibly from Romany ‘kushti’, meaning good or pleasing, though as ‘cushy’ seems to have Urdu roots, the two Ishtar originally stem from much the same root.

Allthewhores, your dh is right! Cushty is a word and he's using it correctly.

Nothing wrong with the word cushty!!

Fairy Up Liquid.

Don't ask...

My grandmother had a life long friend. We knew her well growing up and this friend lived a very long life. Upon hearing of her death, I accompanied my grandmother to the funeral. I was flabbergasted to find out her name was not Alazot but Alice, last name Zott. My grandmother always said Alazot. (To clarify, my grandmother had an unusual ethnic name, her friend of same ethnicity so I never queried it).

I've also never ever heard of anyone calling linked in linky din. I assume that's a deliberate mispronounciation like when people say 'holibobs'?!

Sang-wich for sandwich is one that I hear a lot round here!

I’ve only ever known cushty and have thought the people that say ‘cushy’ are wrong!!

My DH says ‘tagliaghetti’ when he means tagliatelle and it drives me mad!!

I wanted to call DD Genevieve but he continuously said ‘Geneneve’ while I was pregnant so changed my mind!