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

Until I moved in with my partner 3 years ago, I thought it was the electrical roll...he informed me it was electoral roll.

Dh refers to the 2nd city of England as Burningham. He is forrin and dyslexic but makes me laugh every time. He also goes out to low the mawn.

My friend thought Coffee#1 was pronounced Coffee Hashtag One.

Coffee#1

Is that a thing?! How do you say it then?

I work with LinkedIn. All of their employees pronounce it ‘Linked In’. None of them have ever said ‘Linky Din’.

was 'number' before it was hashtag!

So it's presumably 'coffee number 1'?

I was well into adulthood when I discovered that duct tape wasn't duck tape!

@Raera

It's both. Duck tape exists, as does duct tape.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape

cushty and cushy are both right!

Dh loves to eat ‘pavalova’ for dessert. I refuse to make it, on the basis that it does not exist.

My husband thought an 'only child' was a 'lonely child' 😂

Yes, sorry, I assumed you all had a Coffee#1 in your town (it's like Costa etc) and knew it was 'number'. It seems that young people don't know that # had another meaning once, can't blame them for that I suppose!

Yes cushy and cushty are both words but have different meanings surely? I assumed the op's dh is using cushty to describe a job that is well paid and easy, ie cushy. Cushty just means good.

DD asked me whether she could help me take down the caravan ‘yawning’ last week. She’s 20, and we’ve had the caravan, and awning, for about half of her life.

Theres a school near me called chenderit.

Lots of people with their children there call it chenderick. Mad

'Duck tape' was a popular US brand of duct tape, so it's been retrofitted in etymological terms.

Apparently LinkedIn is often pronounced ‘Link Ed In’ in Spanish. But the correct pronunciation is indeed ‘Linked In’.

Choux pastry will always be chooks pastry in our house...

Guffawed (laughed) I always read as guwaffed.... One time I said it aloud when trying to be pretentious and use a fancy word. Mistake!

Mum says Mataland always

There are many campers on Facebook who believe that the ropes that hold your tent up are ‘guide ropes’ not ‘guy’.

My friend informed me that she was going to the Chelsea Psychic Garden.

Not me but at dance school as a kid our very refined very lady like ballet teacher was asked what a Pianist was when she mentioned one would be attending our next lesson as they’d be playing for our upcoming exam.

“Miss Joan, what exactly IS a pianist?”

“well uhm, it’s...the Male genitalia. As women we have different private parts...vaginas but men have...”

And she went on to describe EXACTLY what a Penis is to a room full of 10 year olds.

I thought she was quite cool after that tbh. She gave a jolly good go at it.

It was pretty funny when one of the older girls went,

“She was asking what a PIANIST is, Miss. It’s a bloke that sits and plays the piano in the exams, not a willy.”

At the end of prayers in church, I thought we were all saying “Thanks, Peter God”. I wondered who was this Peter God fella was and why were we thanking him?! I was in my teens before I realised it was “Thanks be to God”. My family now say my version for a larff 😁

I went to a First Communion. Not being catholic I didn’t know that people in the neighbouring pews would turn to shake my hand and say “peace be with you”. Their accents were really thick and I thought they said “pleased to meet you” so I was merrily shaking hands saying “very pleased to meet you too” as OH shook his head despairingly