Lighthearted: Have you only just realised something is infact not what you thought?

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Didn't quite know how to title this but:

I have always thought the second hand on a clock was, like, first and second. Only just found out it means the seconds..... I'm 52.....

What seemingly obvious things have you only just realised are infact not what you thought?

I thought 'meme' was pronounced me-me until very recently.

It almost came to blows in our office recently about whether it's me-me, mem or meem.

It's meem and the rest of you are WRONG

My kids also laughed at me pronouncing it me-me

Lived, it's to do woth the scoring system.

In sports (particularly association football), a two-legged tie is a contest between two teams which comprises two matches or "legs", with each team as the home team in one leg. The winning team is usually determined by aggregate score, the sum of the scores of the two legs.

I prefer my meaning TBF.

Back in the days of fax machines, a friend used to call facsimilies facsi-smiles

Didn't know the aggregate football (would have put money on it being the playing surface!!) or the piggy goes to market ones until today 😮😮 Feel gutted for the piggy now, like PPs I always imagined him trotting off to buy carrots and stuff! So what's with the 3rd piggy having roast beef, know it's not cannabalism but seems weird anyway?

SchooledUp

Oh yeah never thought of that lol!

Argh, got it the wrong way round: how confusing it is that the big hand is skinny and the little one fat, especially when they are similar lengths...

On the other hand I do know that meme is pronounced meem as Richard Dawkins coined it to mean something like a gene, only transmitted via memory. Memory gene =meme.

My husband told me the dial on our toaster equates to minutes in use. I always just thought it was levels of toastyness

I thought anathema was an athema... as in, a noun.
I thought that the Antipodes was an actual place.

AngeloMysterioso I spent the first series of the Octonauts thinking half of the animals were fiction

Same with the toast!

How DO your pronounce meme???

I only recently found out that the word alphabet comes from alpha + beta

My DH thought the saying was: a 'washed' kettle never boils

I only recently found out that the word alphabet comes from alpha + beta

I don't get that about the pig going to market. He's just going to the market, isn't he?

The title of the tv programme Suits has a double meaning.

Suits, as in clothes, which I grasped straightaway

Suits as in law suits, which I cottoned on to after 6 series...

I thought "swings and roundabouts" meant all good rather than some good/some bad, because swings and roundabouts are both good fun. My interpretation makes so much more sense.

When I was 7, I wrote to my friend to tell her that our family New Years Eve party was fun and we sang Old Man's Iron.....

The toaster timer thing doesn’t apply to all models, as I found out when i set it to 5 and wandered off for a few minutes.

Charcoaled toast anyone?!

Prunes are plums! Found this gem out at age 52!

(sorry a bit esoteric) there is no real centre to the universe ( I have loved astronomy since I was very young & always assumed we must be half way across & there would be a place at the centre)

I don't get that about the pig going to market. He's just going to the market, isn't he?
Yes, but not going to the market as in with a basket to buy things. He's been taken to the market to be sold; possibly bacon, ham and sausage type selling.

DH pronounces meme “mehmay” this has amused dd and her friends so much that they have adopted it and all pronounce it like that now

Instead of making ends meet I thought you made Hens Meat, which was a cheaper version of chicken.

I'm 59, and 30 seconds ago I didn't know about the toaster thing.

I thought the extra money my Aunty used to get for working near London was called London Waiting (Weighting) - I never understood what she was waiting for!

I also only got the pun in Shaun (Shorn) the Sheep's name a couple of years ago.