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

My mum always uses the name “House of Frasier”....I need to ask her if she realises it’s wrong...

My partner always says 'tiramisulu' instead of tiramisu.

I thought it was house of faiser for a long time too.

Not in the same vein but when I was about 10 i had never been to church and went to something with my family and remember being horrified at all of these people eating someone's body and drinking their blood.

My niece asked her Mum why they called a car a Flat Panda

Oh, so I was right!

My mum used to think 'dildo' meant 'silly billy'. She called us it all the time.

She was also a secondary school teacher... Evidently none of the kids saw fit to enlighten her Does she wish the thread?

DH called the Nurburgring the Nuremberg Ring for years.

DM cannot pronounce l'occitane, no matter how many times we help. It remains lock-a-tarny.

I thought biopic was pronounced ‘bi-opic’. I’d never heard it said out loud until quite recently, but the proper version makes more sense.

For years as a child I always called Murray mints Muir-ray mints .. my mum never corrected me!

@JHaniver I thought the same until very recently when I heard Joanna Lumley pronounce it as bio-pic, I prefer my way tbh!

My mum used to think 'dildo' meant 'silly billy

Tbf to your mum we had this usage when I was at school. In the knowledge of what one was though

Another xdh malapropism is pruning instead of preening

E.g are you pruning yourself in the mirror AGAIN?

My old nan used to call Jehovas Witnesses "Josafats Witnesses" and Charles Aznavour (singer) was Charles Asnavava. As a child I couldn't pronounce my classmate's name Penelope so she was Penenopee.

The yawning/awning confusion has reminded me that I thought that the Dutch city was really called Hamsterdam for many years! People who said Amsterdam were just dropping the H...

Following on from Thanks Peter God, for years I thought it was Dennis Pray....not Let us Pray. Never queried who Dennis was.

Today, at the age of 40, I realised people go hang gliding not hand gliding .

I thought it was Downtown Abbey for years until I started watching it and realized it was Downton

Only as an adult did I learn how to pronounce the name Imogen.

I thought it was reNUmerate, but recently discovered it's actually reMUnerate!!

Well I thought it was renumerate until ten seconds ago!

@Shockers

It's funny as my DD calls yawning awning.

"The baby is tired, she is awning"

"I just awned, I must be sleepy"

Although my DD is 4

I'm witn you Nico

I'm not stupid honestly!

One of my kids thought Clarks shoe shops was Clanks because of the typeface, they'd never seen an r written that way before. Obviously we all call the shop Clanks now.

I only recently found out awry wasn't pronounced awe-ree.

And misled isn't my-zulled, but miss-led. Although I still usually read it wrong. But not always, it depends on the context!

My uncle worked with someone called Penelope. He'd been calling her 'Penny-Lope' for years until I corrected him. He was mortified and I was baffled as to why someone wouldn't correct the pronunciation of their name for so long. Anyway, we found it absolutely hilarious and I still have a giggle when I think about it.

Anemone. Not, it turns out, an-enemy.