At the age of 52 I have learned...

[lovelyweathertoday]

... that porpoises are very similar to dolphins.

For some reason I thought they were like porcupines. How was I so wrong for so long?!

I had something similar at Christmas. Forget what now

that sounds familiar (49)

In my 50s and I've only just twigged that pink shrimps are meant to taste of strawberries.

They taste nothing like strawberries, so I think I can be forgiven. what on earth does this mean??

@LittleSnakes, what it says.
They are supposed to be strawberry flavoured. It says so on a packet of them that I was given.
But they don't taste like strawberries.
So I think I can't really be blamed for not knowing any earlier that they are supposed to taste of strawberries.

@EdithStourton Maybe @LittleSnakes didn't realise they were sweets. If you didn't know that I think your comment might seem a bit random. Mmmmm - love pink shrimps...!

Sc-oh-nnnn

Red, green, yellow amd orange peppers don't come from different seeds. It's the same pepper, just harvested at a different time. Blew my mind that did!

@nanohana, ah, yes, that didn't occur to me...!

I say the oi sound and didn't know it wasn't right. From the East Midlands

Just joining in the derailment from the South East

Wun
Tor-tus
Por-pus
Sc-own

Also for arguments sake:
Vah-se
Gr-arse

I did think crudités was pronounced cru-debts until very recently mind.

If you are in my part of Ireland
One=wan
Won=wun
Scone rhymes with own.
If you said "I won one scone" none of the words would rhyme and it wouldn't be a tongue twister.
Definitely an oi sound in tortoise.

@OhWhyNot

I had something similar at Christmas. Forget what now

that sounds familiar (49)

Glad it’s not just me.

@EdithStourton no I didn’t know they’re sweets!! Thought you were talking about prawns.

@meow1989

Just joining in the derailment from the South East

Wun
Tor-tus
Por-pus
Sc-own

Also for arguments sake:
Vah-se
Gr-arse

I did think crudités was pronounced cru-debts until very recently mind.

Yes! I'm South East too and this is how I pronounce these words.

I'm ok with crudités, but you really don't want to know how I used to pronounce Hermione, from Harry Potter .

Her-me-won? Had a very confusing conversation about 15 years ago with someone who kept saying Her-me-won.

@DropYourSword

It was just over 2 years ago I discovered I had been pronouncing Tortoise and Porpoise completely incorrectly for 3 decades

Hmm do they rhyme for you? I pronounce them the same

'Taught-us' and porpoise to rhyme

@lovelyweathertoday

... that porpoises are very similar to dolphins.

For some reason I thought they were like porcupines. How was I so wrong for so long?!

I see this thread has now gone off into a pronunciation tangent but I have to ask.... did you think there were little spikey critters swimming around in the sea?

@DickMabutt73962

I thought they were pronounced tort-oys and porp-oys!

[quote LittleSnakes]@EdithStourton no I didn’t know they’re sweets!! Thought you were talking about prawns.[/quote]
LOL.

You need to go and find some. Along with spogs and various questionable chews, they were stuff of pocket-money induced dreams.

It's not so long ago (and I'm 49) that it suddenly dawned on me that "Private Ambulances" were not for moving patients to the hospital. Rolls eyes...