To want to know something you wrongly believed was true all your life ?

[ChristineCagney11]

Posting to try and take our minds off bad things for a moment
I'm in my fifties someone on here posted about a "Party wall" a few weeks ago, I laughed because I thought they were mistaken, I have always thought the word for a wall between two properties was "Parting wall"
How did I not know ??
Also over the years when I've watched, usually men taking off the tops of beer bottles with their hands on US programmes.
I may or most definitely may have tried to do this myself not realising they have twisty tops in the US.
You ?

I thought it was 'can't stand craving!'

A reverse on that reminds me of the Jimmy Cliff song 'I can see Deirdre now Lorraine has gone'.......

I thought it was can't stand gravy!

I thought it was, “can’t stand waiting”.

Not quite all my life, but I was well into my 30s when I was disabused off the notion that tuna are small fish…… friend ordered a tuna steak in a restaurant and I was a bit “Eh? That’s going to be a tiny meal…..”

Daft me had thought that as sardines and pilchards came in tins, tuna must be small too….. even though tuna doesn’t come whole in a tin….. I just thought it needed processing for some reason.

And as for narwhals….. I just don’t get why we didn’t learn about them at school - absolutely fascinating creatures….. first I knew of their existence was when that terrible incident happened on London Bridge and someone defended themselves and others with a Narwhal tusk….. and I’m 53!!

@MistressoftheDarkSide haha they are crazy, unicorn whales! I'm sure a few on this thread said they thought they were made up!

Open your eyes, to the lies right in front of you.

That the lyrics in “Fairy Tale of New York” are “I kept them with me, babe”, and not, in fact, “Oh cut the wibbly, babe”…My stepdad set me straight on that one after his tears of laughter subsided. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Me too! I thought it was a way of saying that Jesus loved stupid people just as much as smart ones.

Oh thank God!

At the time it was incredible. The line you quoted was intended to be ironic.

This is a recent and embarrassing one - I noticed a lot of posters on MN put ‘Tia’ at the end of their posts. I didn’t realise it means thanks in advance - I thought they were called Tia and leaving their name 🙈 I couldn’t understand why there were so many people called Tia on MN when it’s not that common a name at all 😆

My mum always thought the lyrics were “viva world” not “feed the world”.
I was in my 20s and she was in her 60s when I twigged.

It’s definitely broosk I’m afraid! Google and see! 😊

It's definitely not. It depends entirely on accent. In mine, brusque rhymes with husk

It's not accent, just some people choosing to pronounce it differently. Like scone and scowne.

I'm so glad you said this - I've just sat here thinking 'But that's right'...???

If you use a search engine you will find that either pronunciation of brusque is accepted; neither is "incorrect".

The same is true about eether/iyther, neether/niyther.

It IS accent. That's how accents work. You don't choose to pronounce it differently.

For some people, laugh rhymes with scarf. For me, its nothing like it. Neither of us are choosing to pronounce it differently.

Brusk/broosk and scone/scone aren't accent based. People with the same accent choose different ones as 'their' pronunciation. Laugh is accent based.

You don't understand what accents are.

Yeah they understand accent just fine.

Someone who pronounces brusque as rhyming with the Farley's baby biscuit is either going to sound like brusk or broosk depending on their accent.

The American pronunciation of brusque is brusk, and it's commonly said like that in the UK as well. However the English pronunciation is based on its etymological origin and is closer to how some northerners would say brusk (broosk)

Google is a search engine, what do you mean? You need to specify British pronunciation. Eg here
dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/brusque

Why would you need to specify British pronounciation? For one thing, people in different parts of Britain will say it differently, and for another we're not all British, and our pronounciations, in our accents, are just as valid and proper.
So do stop telling us all how a word is definitively pronounced because thats the way you say it.

I really thought my mum had taken our cat to live on a farm. I had an awful moment when I was talking to my brother, at about 26, and the penny finally dropped. Wicked woman.