Obvious things that suddenly registered to you.

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I like watching things like NCIS.

Over the years, I’ve heard the phrase watch your six and just let it fly over my head expecting not to understand it.

Literally the other day, it suddenly occurred to me…it means watch your back!!

Of course it does!

I had to explain to my son’s teacher that the reason he wasn’t doing his homework and drawing the moon at bedtime every night was that the moon hadn’t risen then.
She had just thought the moon came out when it got dark and went away at sunrise, rather than rising and setting like the sun.
I’m not sure what she thought about when you can see the moon during the day.

When I was a teen, the Sunday radio show played several songs back to back, and called it by a name I thought was spelled segway.

I also would come across the printed word "segue" which I thought was pronounced "seg" and was people being pretentious and using the french version of segway.

I was fairly old like last year when I realised that segue is pronounced segway!!

I discovered this too recently, it was blank and then all of a sudden a price appeared, I thought I was losing my mind.

Well it depends how you write it doesn't it?

I've always written a small w a uu iyswim.

Pretty sure that that was also how I was taught to write a capital when learning cursive.

I thought, until my mid-twenties, that W.C. stood for welcome convenience 🤣

@MonsterChopz
Maybe your Dad read this thread 😉

I have a friend Bartholomew who is known as Barry.

I like Barrington alot.

That the news is called that because its literally 'news' plural, as in new stories or pieces of information.

I never questioned it in my head until realising it was 'les nouvelles' in French.

I moved to a rural house with a stream running through the garden. My sister (a townie) suggested we get some fish to put in it. When I pointed out the flaws in this plan, she was very surprised to hear that the stream didn't 'end' at the bottom of the garden but in fact carried on flowing. Her next idea was to put a barrier of chicken wire across the stream as a sort of corral. Then she got cross with me.

My understanding of Nights In White Satin is that he’s singing of his love for another man, which is either unrequited (probably), or clandestine, which it would have to have been when the song was written.

🤔 Maybe! His eyes will have been truly opened if he's reading mn

Terry = Terence

Therefore Barry = Barence

I had subtitles on and the programme I was watching was singing 'we wish you a merry Christmas'. I never realised it was to you and your KIN. I always thought it was KING. That's a stupid one.

I also never realised it was tenterhooks for a long time. I thought it was TENDER hooks.

I didn't get this at first because my imaginary clock is on the vertical plane - my head is the 12 and my feet on the 6. Watching my 6 = watching my step.

I remember when I was an NQT saying to another teacher that when the tide was in here then it would be out in France- thought it went back and forth like those 2p machines 🤦🏼‍♀️. So embarrassing

I didn Until I read this 🤦‍♀️

I only realised a year ago! And they’re only like 55 miles from each other or something! 🤯

@Iwanttobeanonymous
i only understood the segue pronunciation yesterday! at the age of 57 and a quarter

Someone I know was in her 50s before she realised that ‘misled’ wasn’t pronounced ‘mizzled’. 😂

😂😂😂

I mean, it often kind of is!

@Benjispruce4 thank you for that!! I’m putting that into the group chat now this morning! My uncle the con artist ripping off poor Terry! 😂

audio typing in her early 20s taught me quite a bit, including Albeit,
not all be it

Oh - and just realised I'd be looking in the wrong direction for 3 o'clock because for me it's where my left hand is.

I thought segue was pronounced to rhyme with league and only learned it was pronounced segway last year. I'm fast approaching 50...

I always thought it was Stupid Twat Bastard Ex Husband