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

I used to always read To Let signs as toilet when I was little and if out in the car go on and on to my parents about needing the toilet and pointing out office buildings.

There was also a place that was called C&T which no matter when I see it in my head it says cat.

DP says 'Heighth' and swears he's right and I'm wrong

Oh, I will always remember the lad in my A Level Psychology class who pronounced the word 'underfed' when reading aloud as 'un-derfft'.

I'm 36 and still get 'elegible' and illegible' wrong ALL. THE. BLOODY. TIME. The worst part is I know the difference!

Apparently my next door neighbour is called Jim, I’ve been calling him Ted for 4 years, although to make up for it the neighbour the other side thinks dp is called Steven (even though dps name is Dan) we like the neighbour, he’s a lovely old man so we just pretend dp is called Steven & go along with it.

Oh yes old man Nick is apparently Mick! Found that out from his wife when I said 'I know Nick's name but I've never known yours'. She said 'oh yes everyone knows Mick'

Ah shit.

My cousin who is very clever and CEO of a big multi-national, always says Knee-and-dearth-al instead of Neanderthal. It's quite a family joke.

When I was a teenager I thought voluptuous was pronounced volumptuous.

I only found out recently that renumerate wasn’t a word and it’s remunerate!!

For years I called Bear Grylls Bear Gryliss until OH finally corrected me and I thought the Sistine chapel was the sixteenth chapel until I was way into my twenties

Catsandbootsandbootsandcats, my dh had the same issue with both of those - awry and misled. He always says its ironic to be misled by the word misled!

I embarrassed myself with 'apropos' a couple of years back. Cringe thinking about it

I thought climate was climax when I was young. I remember getting back from holiday being 18 and telling my boyfriends mum about the wonderful climax. Still makes me chuckle now

Erm how do you pronounce neanderthal then?
Goingtotown it is Wait Rose after its founders Mr Waite and Mr Rose (and Mr Taylor, who, were he still alive would no doubt be pretty pissed off he didn't stick around)

DMs friend loves his declining chair

I always get prostate and prostrate mixed up

Not me and not a long-term thing but on a related theme... I moved to Canada last year and was recently talking to someone who is going on holiday to Scotland in June. I told her to watch out for the midges on the west coast as they're bad at that time of year. Anyway, I saw her again a week or so later and she told me with much hilarity that she'd been speaking to another Brit and telling them how she'd heard all about the terrible minges in Scotland. Apparently she said it multiple times and was wondering why they had an odd expression on their face before they choked back their laughter and told her what a minge was 😂

@SilverySurfer

*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*

OMG me too! Just had to stop reading the thread half way down to reply to you as I was so excited to find someone else equally as confused by something so random. High five!

My cousin who is very clever and CEO of a big multi-national, always says Knee-and-dearth-al instead of Neanderthal.

That's the way we pronounce it in Ireland? What other way is there?

Oh is there an extra d in there?

I started reading Harry Potter long before movies and it becoming so popular.
I always read Hermione as 'Her me own'. Imagine the look of realisation on my face when the movie came out 😳

I started reading Harry Potter long before movies and it becoming so popular.
I always read Hermione as 'Her me own'. Imagine the look of realisation on my face when the movie came out 😳

You and about a million others!!

St. John in Jane Eyre is another!

My brother thought that he got a 'Highly Recommended' certificate for his grade when he was younger

St. John in Jane Eyre is another!

Weirdly, that's one I did know!

How is St. John mispronounced?

I have a friend who pronounces Pinterest 'Pee-Interest'.
My DD always puts a 'Saint' onto the name of our local hospital (it is in fact named after a famous medical man, who happens to have a saint's first name)

I have to mentally say anemone as 'Annie-Moan' so I can remember how it is spelt and pronounced.

Our neighbour for years called my XH 'Brian' - his name isn't Brian (although it begins with B) - however many times I corrected neighbour persisted in calling him Brian, so I just started to refer to H as Brian to save hassle

For years I thought a cheetah was a type of chimpanzee, in my head I still picture them as one and the same. My DH fell about laughing when he realised , I think I was about 35 at the time, I made him Google it and show me bacause I thought he was winding me up . I blame the old Tarzan & Jane TV show, I loved it as a child (I am very old) and Tarzan had a monkey called Cheetah.

Gummy, St John is pronounced 'SIN-jin'.