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?! 😃

My friend thought Kansas and Arkansas were the same place. She's from Liverpool and says 'our Dave', 'our Tommy', etc when she talks about family members. She thought 'Our Kansas' was the way people who lived in Arkansas referred to Kansas. It blew her mind when I told her it was pronounced Arkan-saw' and Kansas is a completely different state.

Me neither!

@Mapletreelane noooooo!

that’s my new favourite fact!

I used to think this as well when I was little and remember telling my Dad to be careful not to drive over them as he would smash the light bulbs!

From about 1995 to last year I though that a todo list was pronounced toedoe to rhyme with dodo. I had no idea - one day last year - I was looking at the word in Outlook and just realised.

This is brilliant 😂

I was talking with my friend about Freddy Mercury and she described him as a 'gay acorn'. I said do you mean gay icon?!

She also thought the school subject CDT (Craft, Design & Technology) was Seedy Tea! To be fair, she is Japanese, but it made me laugh.

Thought it was about the insect too as their hair styles look like beetles.

And there was me pressing and holding the zero on my computer keyboard and just getting a big line of 0000000000000's Didn't occur to me about a phone's "keyboard" (which I call the letters box - no idea why).

@SirGawain you've got a bit mixed up, there isn't a liquorice triangle, it's the rhubarb triangle, which covers several towns in West Yorkshire Wakefield Morley and Rothwell, (which is quite near to pontefract). But pontefract is famous for its liquorice, notably its Pontefract cakes, which are the little discs, about the size of a £2 coin. The Haribo headquarters and factory are also in Pontefract. I live just a few miles away, and can confirm it's never been in wales 😂

Only until I visited Australia did I learn that their capital city is neither Sydney nor Melbourne.

I also learnt the difference between "have a seat" and "take a seat"

😁😁

I very recently noticed that Norwich is further North than Birmingham. Or, filled with sudden doubt, it looks like it is on the Mercator projection maps.

I know what pontefract cakes are , and I like them. But I still thought it was Wales!

I found out recently that Clovelly isn't pronounced clove-lee, but clov-el-ee… to me, the latter (correct) pronunciation sounds entirely like it should be in Wales

It is actually true 🙂

I cant even think what I've only recently discovered,as I'm so wrapped up in everyone else's and most are news to me!

I thought peanut butter actually contained butter so I always kept it in the fridge.

Kak-off-an-ee The nice thing about words is that so many of them sound like the thing - try saying cacophony and see if you "feel" the awful noise! (or e.g., gurgle sounds like something - gurgling, lol)

I once had an office job where other colleagues' phones would bounce through to mine if they didn't answer within a certain number of rings. We had a whiteboard to keep track of everyone's whereabouts as colleagues often worked out on site.

One day, I took a call for a colleague who wasn't in the office. Glancing at the board I said to the person enquiring, 'sorry - he's too ill to come in today.' It was only when I heard people laughing around me that I realised he wasn't 'too ill' - he was on TOIL (time off in lieu) due to working flextime. I'd never come across that expression before!

Up until my 20's I thought that there was a place called 'Knifepoint' and I wondered why the police didn't do more to stop crime there, as on the news there was always people being "robbed at Knifepoint" or "hostages held at Knifepoint" etc

@bruffin I apologise, I got my colours mixed up, it's blue over brown, not brown over blue.
Still true though 🙂

My son likes rap and there is a song with the lyrics "I'm going to pop some tags" which I assumed was about gun violence, but he told me it's about shopping!

That Robins dont just appear at winter, and mainly December!!
Thought the one in our garden (all summer) was just confused… feel a bit daft now! I blame the Christmas cards