Things you’ve only just found out

[TheChosenTwo]

About 2 days ago I discovered that Skegness isn’t in Scotland 😳 How did I never know this before? Embarrassingly, I’m 38 😂

@Twentyfirstcenturymumma , it's Lartay isn't it?

He says it a bit like 'lah-te' which is also what lot of Anglos and Yanks do, but I have always said the first syllable to rhyme with cat, pat, mat, etc. Taught by a teacher from Milan. Likewise 'pasta'.

Not in my book.

@CharlottenBurger , your teacher was wrong. It's parster. Pizza is pitser.
Radicchio is rad-itchy-o and bruschetta is brush-etta. A panini is a sort of bread roll with filling and the plural is paninis, little dumplings are gunnotchy, tagliatelle is taggy-telly, and conchiglie is contchigly. And black coffee is expresso, cos it's only little and it doesn't take long to drink it.

Honestly, foreigners. They cant even speak there own language. I'm off for a stake samwidge.

I'm reminded of the saying, "The biggest problem isn't what you don't know, it's what you know that just ain't so."

But surely there are a lot more things than geography that people were mistaken about?

@Merlin3189 , RTFT - some of the posts are quite worrying.

My father in law said 'we'll have ganockie' to Mario in Mario's Restaurant in Wigan and Mario said 'Ah yes the niocchi' and FIL said 'yes, the ganockie'. Both long gone I'm afraid.

They do call it 'expresso' in France.

When I first saw Calzone on a menu, I thought it was named for its number of calories, and I can't unsee 'cal zone'. I've never tried it.

I didn't know that something called a mac'n'cheese pasty was an abomination until I tried it. Had I actually thought about it I wouldn't have bothered.

@CharlottenBurger , oh bless him and Mario. How sweet.
There is a tv chef who says brushetta despite claiming to have been taught to cook by Nonna.

I was joking about those foodstuffs, but I probably don't get them quite right.
I struggle with pushchairs - presumably they are Kicko, Zhwah and Grayco, not Tchicko, Joy and Gracko.

I have actually just wet myself laughing.

It’s nettle

Oh dear...does this mean we've never had a Labour government in the past 70 years? 🤔

I cant shake the feeling that if you draw a line on top of Derbyshire it would end up slicing Wales in half, since Derbyshire is exactly in the middle of England. I know it doesn't but...

@Pixiedust1234 , Wales isn't in Derbyshire. There's a Denbighshire in Wales. A line through Derbyshire would go through Denbighshire if it was wide enough to cover England and Wales. I think it would cut through the top bit of Derbyshire and the lower part of Denbighshire.

I know it isn't.. I meant the map you see on the weather news. Get a pencil and ruler, place it top of Derbyshire and draw a line and (I think) it should go through the middle of Wales. It doesn't of course but thats because Derbyshire isn't where I keep thinking it is, its a lot higher up in England. It always surprises me for some reason. Most of the other counties are where I think they should be but Derbyshire is a little bugger and keeps moving 😂

Tickle rats and they giggle. Ultrasonic giggles that humans can't hear.

Until today I’ve always thought I was “as you watched yourself go by”

'As you watched yourself gavotte' WTF.

Warren Beatty gavotting?

@KirstenBlest Yes, of course, silly me. That's why I'm always corrected by the people making it 😊
Always reminds me of Hermione Granger correcting Ron Weasley's pronunciation of one the spells... 'Wingardium leviosarr.'

@CharlottenBurger Interesting...I was taught Itaian by a fearsome Italian woman while working in Florence, a Florentina perhaps... ... would need to look that up... I thought the further north you went the more the a's, were pronounced ar's or ah's... same as in France. For me it's always laaaaaatay... until corrected by the barrista in UK... to lartay 😏

Strange, then. He really insisted on that short 'a'. This has reminded me of a posh old music teacher I had at school who said 'pi-ah-no' and if you mucked about called you a 'silly ass' pronounced like 'silly arse'.

It is called petrichor and it is produced by bacteria.

I thought Billericay was in Ireland until I watched Gavin and Stacey.

I do have a good one actually. Denture cleaning tablets get white shirts spotless.

I foolishly told a posh git that I always confused Norfolk & Suffolk. He sarcastically explained that the “Nor” in Norfolk meant north & the “Suff” in Suffolk meant south. How could I have been so thick?

well I didn't know that, though it's more of a factoid to "entertain" folks with at parties than a gamechanger/source of shame.