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

How is St. John mispronounced?

It’s often mispronounced Saint John. It should be pronounced Sinjen.

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

How does that help you pronounce it!?

How does that help you pronounce it!?

Because I would be inclined to pronounce it 'An - en -no- me' but if I say 'Annie -Moan in my head I can can translate that into 'An -em -oh -nee'. and get the M and N the right way round.

There is a method in my madness - although having wirtten and said the word several times in my head just now it has lost all meaning - Think I'll stick to tulips

Sorry, Gummy, I misread your post, and thought you were asking how St John was actually pronounced. Ignore me.

It didn't occur to me that it would be pronounced like saint John, very obvious now I look at it! Glad I was right, I thought maybe I had made it up when I saw it listed.

As a child I loved the Babysitters Club books. One of the characters was called Janine.

In my head I always pronounced it "J-9"

I loved the Babysitter’s Club books too (even had the dolls lol!). I always called Mallory Marolly

My friend used to think hi-fidelity was pronounced "hi-fiddly-tie".

DH is adamant that Stephen Mangan is called Stephen Mannagan...it annoys me FAR more than it should!

@thatmustbenigelwiththebrie OMG me too!! J-9 😂

A friend repeatedly says,”Whatever wrecks your boat...”
Dd told everyone she got an extinction in her music exam.

'make ends meat'

I thought for years it was a bizarre English phrase that had a meaning hundreds of years ago but still used today like 'not got a pot to piss in'.

Generally thought back in the day maybe people were paid in the last part of the meat or somehow created some kind of end part of the meat. Absolute no idea and thought everyone else was spelling meat wrong.

My ex would talk about Kieflander Suthers, the actor.

Most people know of him as Kiefer Sutherland.

Kieflander Suthers

Mind you, that’s the kind of thing that can drive you stabby towards the end of a relationship. My ex used to say ‘sarrogate’ instead of ‘surrogate’ and it made me want to rip my ears off and shove them down his stupid throat by the end.

I used to always say Westminister instead of Westminster, and only very recently got corrected and realised I had been saying it wrong this whole time 🤦‍♀️

MIL says wait Rose too. She also calls a lorry a lurry?? And lasagne, heaven only knows where she gets her pronunciation from? Caliphonia is California apparently. Oh my word you've got me started. I only picked up my phone to check on a recipe... 😂😂

When I was a kid my brother called Humans Human beans and I thought sea gulls were sea girls.

My ex DH calls a skeleton a skelington and valentines day as Valemtimes day.

My mum says Caliphonia too. Tarpole-Ian for tarpaulin and armonia for ammonia.

I once knew a woman who loved a bit of misery and drama and she used to talk about alllll the people she knew who had cancer. 'Oohhh and me uncle who has prostrate cancer ohhh it's awful'

The Lord’s Prayer again - as a child I always heard Our Father Witchart in Heaven, and imagined an old man like Grandpa Walton but called Father Witchart.

Oh and MIL used to blame being several stones overweight on her mentabolism

My daughter always thought the dual carriageway near us was named George Harris Way

She’s 17 and only realised when her driving instructor took her on her first driving lesson

@highlandcoo - I used to think it was 'Harold be thy name'

Until I was a teen and visited the Submarine museum, I was under the impression it was a sumbarine.

Clearly, no logic there at all and no idea where it came from but it was only when we visited the Submarine museum in Portsmouth that the penny dropped. It was a real moment of shock and I was too embarrassed to tell anyone my error. My husband and kids know now though.

Bit random but work play yellow submarine quite a lot and I do mentally sing yellow sumbarine, makes me chuckle to myself.

My friend Janine signs herself off in texts as J9...