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?! 😃

Perhaps I think flowers that close are more common than they are then. I wish they did all do it. I agree it seems wrong to have an open flower in the dark.

I was nearly very old when I discovered Liverpool was on the west coast, not the east.
Thought Harrogate was a seaside town.
Thought Loudon Wainwright was a duo.

That majorca and mallorca are the same place 😱

I've got one. It's MI5. Mi5. NOT M15. How would I know? Only ever seen it written down and no idea what it stood for. Fancy that

It's the high protein food for the chicken!

I live one mile away from Pontefract. Ponte cakes are lovely.
There is also a Hollywood in Ireland.
Who is Carol??
This thread is so bloody educational!!
I did learn recently that when handcuff are put on, if you don't press the little spike on the key into each cuff they're not locked on your wrists and you can therefore escape!! Just incase anyone needed to know. 😀

What? He's not a mouse? What the hell is he then?

I thought this was about making sure you said Please and Thank (Q) you!

@RagzRebooted I still call it 'Bell-vwar' because I totally agree with you 🤣. It is pronounced Beaver though. I can't bring myself to say 'Beaver cordial'.

It's also elderflower flavour and not elderberry. I wonder if elderberries exist. Stupid sounding name!

Ah but MW is an American dictionary! Not to be relied on for English spelling or phrases I’m afraid!

How can you type so much but not read at all? You just keep saying 'the expression is think', and people are arguing that of course it is think because it makes so much sense. I've spent about 4 posts trying to show you how both phrases are nonsense and you just keep saying 'the expression is think'. Do you need a reboot or something? Whichever nonsense phrase you want to use doesn't matter to me. I'm only bothered that you all believe one makes much more sense than the other. They don't, they're both nonsense.

And I only discovered that this minute 🤯

Oh my god, me too!! So in theory, in our town we have two car parks which are free for 2 hrs so I could park in one for 2 hrs, move it to the other for 2 hrs and then go back to the original? 6 hrs free parking? That's good.

He’s a human boy who inexplicably looks like a mouse and is the size of a mouse. It makes no sense. At all.

I thought the cartoon character “Yosemite Sam “ was pronounced “Yozermight “ also the national park same Of course it is Yo-sem -ity 🤦‍♀️

Well you're clearly failing given I'm not the only person who has pointed out you are talking nonsense.

@RagzRebooted yes, the lesser spotted woodpecker is Dryobates minor - ie smaller/lesser. The great spotted woodpecker is Dendrocopos major - ie larger/great. I’ve never seen a lesser spotted; they’re really tiny, about the size of a sparrow. We have great spotted and green woodpeckers in our garden occasionally though.

well yes, elderberries are what grow after the elderflowers are pollinated!
On an elder bush!

I'm another who thought that about the Wombles - i.e. that they are common

I knew it was Wimbledon Common but I always thought it was deliberately phrased to trip people up.

There's a definite pause / comma after "the Wombles of Wimbledon, Common are we"

@Glitteringapples On the subject of singers with deep voices I always thought that Automatic by the Pointer Sisters was sung by a man.

Same, I imagine most people did. Ruth Pointer, the sister with the deep voice, was on the US Masked Singer and most viewers were initially sure that it was a man. I'm not sure how many also believed the ironic female name theory though, ha.

Oh yes, and that gherkins are just pickled cucumbers!

Oh...

I've been pronouncing epitome like "ep ti mome"
I pronounced suave as 'suayve'

Yes, they do exist! They’re what grows on the elder tree after the white flowers (that you make the cordial with) have died off.

@StillWeRise @Halsall well that's another embarrassing moment 😳🤣

Yes, I don't doubt that think was first, I said that in my first objection to 'think makes so much sense' 🙄 it still doesn't make sense and the OED doesn't talk about the sense of it and the guardian article disregards the illogic of it. So I still firmly believe the phrase is nonsensical and I still couldn't give a flying fuck which one people prefer to say. I'm just incredibly content that a singular pp can also understand that both phrases make as much sense as each other 😌