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?! 😃

Ex DH - not me !
If you've never heard a word spoken, why wouldn't you call a cagoule a "kaygoolie" ?
Or a whodunit a "wod unit " ?

A trilogy is a triology.

As posted already we will be Caroleans .

Anne is never going to be monarch so I won’t worry about that.

People!
Hillsborough as in Hillsborough Castle is in NORTHERN IRELAND.
Part of the UK.
The monarch's & royal residence when they are in Northern Ireland.

Hillsborough stadium is in England.

Those getting confused with Pontefract being in Wales, maybe getting confused with Pontepridd which is in Wales.

I always thought those playing University challenge were on top of each other and the top panel you had to go up a staircase behind it. That's how it's shown on TV! Didn't realise it was a split screen 😂

He probably wasn’t until the Alice in Wonderland portrayal.
amp.classicfm.com/discover-music/humpty-dumpty-sat-on-a-wall-lyrics-history/

Oh! I thought the same until 30 seconds ago.

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Well into my forties with postgraduate qualification and working in academia before realising that there are two words discrete and discreet and they mean different things.

I had no idea!

Dangly bit is the uvula, the tonsils are on either side of it. Otherwise there'd be a lot of people with no dangly bit after having their tonsils out!

We always went "uptown" when going to central London for a night out.
I always thought "downtown" meant slumming it.

I'd never heard of bunting until the jubilee in 2012 (I was 35 then) I thought it was just flags on a string..then since 2012 bunting is everywhere!

Caroline era

I thought it was a fictional place where the Mr Men lived!

Bob Hoskins and Anthony Hopkins are two entirely different people. I only realised that recently.

I'm crying at kaygoolie 😂

I thought it was fictional!! Thick as fuck.

A couple of days ago I learned that the Parthenon Marbles are not in fact marbles.

I am 37 (and had always wondered what the fuss was about).

Omg 😂

That Hugh Grant and Richard E Grant are NOT brothers!!

Similar but with reindeer.

@MardyBumm same here

That cacophony isn't pronounced kaka phonie thanks to reading Slinky Malinky (good friend of Hairy McClary) to the children. DH pissed himself and does like to bring it up occasionally. I'm my defense I've been an avid reader since I was little and have encountered loads of words that I've never heard anyone use in real life!

I used to work with someone who thought Neverland Ranch, Never Never Land and the Netherlands were all the same fictional place.

That peanuts grow underground.