Things I'm embarrassed to have realised so late in life...

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Those ID necklaces? I had absolutely never heard of the word "lanyard" until around 3 years ago. All my friend's children learnt this way before I did. If you had told me "Lanyard" was a European city - I'd have believed you.

That little press send arrow in the top right hand corner? It only occurred to me in my mid 30s that it is in fact a paper aeroplane. I just thought it was a dodgy triangle.

I was absolutely stunned to find out the woman who plays Amanda in Motherland is not Catherine Tate.

Any confessions to console me I'm not the only one failing at life?! 😃

Penrith is definitely in Cumbria I go there several times a year. It's at the intersection of the A66 and M6.

Oh gosh!im really being enlightened here,i didnt know half of these and thought the same

Also duck-billed platypuses - I thought they were about the size of seals but the ones I saw in Oz were teeny tiny - so cute.

Dandelions in French are called Pis-en-lit (piss in the bed). Their leaves are a diuretic.

Until my late 20s, I thought a piece of furniture was called 'Chester drawers' and not chest of drawers. I'm from Yorkshire, and people actually do make it sound like Chester drawers, as if they were made in Chester. I was doing a written inventory, and my manager just laughed at me, she was nearly rolling on the floor with laughter 😊

So you're the person selling all the Chester Drawers on facebook marketplace 😁

How interesting - we used to call them "wee the beds" round our way as a kid!

So that's what they are for. Even after 3 kids I never realised and had to wash them after each poo explosion!

@Middleagedandgrumpy please share the secret!'

We weren't struggling to make Ian's meat but ends meet when I was growing up. Dad owned a butcher shop 😳

I also thought it was Instantbul for a very long time.

When I was very young, not more than 4 or 5 years old, one morning I watched my 2-year-old little sister's eyes turn brown! My dad called us down to look. It was like a brown fluid filling in the empty space in front of where it was blue and after a minute or so, you could only see her new brown eyes.

Or at least that's what I recall happening - but my dad (now late 60s) says he doesn't remember it!

And did you know that the stalks are used to make walking sticks (I used to work in a physio dept)?! My mind was blown when I found that out.

Penrith is in Cumbria but Penwith is in Cornwall.

It's uncharted waters (no-one has been there so therefore no charts have been drawn) and NOT unchartered waters.

I only recently realised after an ancestry dna test that chromosomes were not 'chromosones' and have been saying it wrong all my life!

No it's in Caerphilly, a family member used to live there.

Watching a documentary about a man with the surname DeJesus.

First time hearing it said rather than reading it and was disappointed to find out this surname is not pronounced Dee - Jesus as I thought, but sounded a lot more like De - Zeus.

My kids found it hysterical that I thought Lapland was a country..

It was only a few years ago that I realised Lapland's a huge area with regular inhabitants. I'd thought it was all a purpose-built, Christmas-themed resort!

This is my favourite 😂😂

Me too!!

Mispronouncing quinoa is understandable I think... but once when my mum was in hospital a junior staff member read out the menu options to her, which included "kwitch", AKA quiche! 😂

Making Ian’s meat, OMFG I’m dying 🤣

No no no no NO!!!!!!

I'm mortified. I'm Irish, studied it for 12 years and never realised there are several letters in the English alphabet that do not appear in the Irish one. Mortified!

Niamh being Neeve is because 'mh' in Irish is pronounced like a 'v'.

😂yes, don't panic, Pontypandy is fictional!!!

Perhaps I should have said 'I've never seen an episode of Fireman Sam that confirms Pontypandy is in Wales. I am just assuming it is because everyone has a Welsh accent, but could it be possible that they just identify as Welsh? 😯

@mynameischloe not me, however, I would've listed them as Chester drawers until my manager was hysterical with laughter. Cringe!

I was also reading at university and I pronounced albeit as 'albite'. Ffs, I thought it was a German word and so emphasised the 'I'. A friend told me and I protested. Big massive cringe! I quickly realised that I wasn't always right, and I'm so glad I did 😄.