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

Can someone please explain the prostrate / postate thing to me?

prostrate and prostate are two different words with different meanings.

Growing up. The Christmas tune stop the cavalry. I could never say it properly. Always said stop the Calvary!!

@dinoegg prostrate means laying on the floor face down. Physically impossible to have prostrate cancer!

Another church one, as a child the vicar used to sing ‘as our saviour taught us so we pray’ etc in a way which made me think, for years, he was singing ‘as I save your tortoise’.

There are 3 my husband always says wrong -

dressing gownd instead of dressing gown

prawn and cocktail instead of just prawn cocktail crisps

He pronounces onion ung-yung

I correct him every time and nothing changes

I only noticed after about 17years with my husband that he pronounces the L in 'yolk' and 'folk'. I find it hilarious. His family all do. He says it's a regional thing.

He also used to say foiliage instead of foliage so he made a very normal word sound all New York mobster-like. 'I like the foliage on that tree over there...be a shame if something happened to it if you catch my drift'😅

My DC, my fault, grew up saying 'spectacliar' because i used it as a silly and exaggerated way of expressing with added drama! Only I seemed to have forgotten that this is what they would learn and over the years had to correct it too, oops!

I have seen many of these threads now! New things all the time.

Someone writes to me 'on mass' annoying and 'on route' grr, ires the pedant in me

Heard the other day, the specific ocean!

People saying nucular instead of nuclear annoys me. One of the President Bushes used to say it and I really felt that somebody with the power to destroy the world using nuclear weapons ought to be able to say it right as a sort of minimal requirement of the post.

I thought Ritula Shah on Radio 4 was Ricola Shah for years and I still 'hear' that even though I know it's wrong. I annoy myself.

just found out its Ritola Can't not hear Ricola for some reason.

I worked with a woman who says pacific for specific.

Probably just a lazy talker like me, I drop the "s" and just say "pecific"

I have never heard Saint John pronounced Sinjen. And I went to a primary school called Saint John's!!

My DH said 'i was just reading in the newspaper about VAYKINS"

What on Earth!? Vaykins? Do you mean Vikings!?

No. He meant vaccines. Wtf!?

Jobber to be fair it's only pronounced Sinjen when it's a man's name.
Schools and churches etc are still pronounced Saint John.

I pronounced misled as mize-uld, and awry as orie until my 30s. DM corrected me in the end, laughing derisively. I made a remark about choosing her nursing home, and it might have come to knives if DW hadn't told us to less it.

Jobberknoll it's only pronounced Sinjen when it's a man's name. Saint John is still Saint John.

A man is called Saint John as his name and it's pronounced SinJen. What on earth...?

I still pronounce derelict as derilEct. I'm sure it must be because my father pronounced it that way (strong Stoke on Trent accent)