Things you really should have known sooner...

[TheDodgyEnd]

I’ve just learned that Casablanca is not in South America at all and is, in fact in Morocco! Who knew 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️
Anyone else got any tidbits they learned far too late in life?

That wrestling was real...

Loving the poor little terracottas!

TheDodgyEnd I think you might have been confusing ballache with panache - pronounced pan-ASH

‘he entertained London society with great panache’
‘Fashion is about fun, style, panache, and feeling good about yourself.’
‘Flaws cannot be concealed by style and panache.’
‘Yes, it is still the capital of North African style and panache.’
‘It is cute, astute, cerebral football, a mirror image of their studious manager though with an added dash of style and panache.’
‘With her typical panache and literary style, the author comes at the serial killer genre from a new angle.’

[[https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/panache]

Link again
en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/panache

@BoreOfWhabylon oh I know about panache. But to me ballache is and forever will be a more appropriate word

My mind has just been blown by finding out that Keira Knightley was in Star Wars Episode 1. She played the Queen Amidala decoy!

Not sure I was supposed to know this, but still...

You are right of course - ballache does look as if it should be pronounced ballash. If they want it to be pronounced ball ache they should make it clear by separating the two words or at least inserting a hyphen!

Gherkins has reminded me of one I found out this year, a marrow is actually a courgette that hasn't been picked from the plant at courgette stage, if you leave them growing on the plant they become marrows.

The clue is in the name(s)

Marrow in Italian is zucca, zucchine is small zuccas

Marrow in French, courge, courgette is a small courge

@BoreOfWhabylon well, exactly. I’m glad someone else understands

You are right of course - ballache does look as if it should be pronounced ballash. If they want it to be pronounced ball ache they should make it clear by separating the two words or at least inserting a hyphen!

Read this too quickly... thought you said ‘inserting a hymen.’

That the moon only came out at night!

And...possibly even worse...that we have a hole for swallowing food, and a separate one for water- hence the saying 'it went down the wrong hole'

Don't worry *rowtheboats" a friend of mine was worrying what would happen if she needed to wee when in labour. She honestly thought wee and babies came out via the same route! She was in her twenties.

Ummm how is Freddie called Andrew and vice versa...totally confused. I'll rephrase...how is Freddie Flintoff, Andrew Flintoff?!

@SnugglySnerd 😂😂😂

Freddie is his nickname, based on the similarity of his surname to (Fred) Flintstone

Re: Portsmouth ... if the criteria for an island is that you have to cross a bridge/water to access the location, then may I present the Highlands of Scotland? With the chain of rivers and lochs that form the Great Glen, there is a whole chunk of Scotland that would technically class as an island!! But not the Black Isle - that's a peninsula. Just to confuse things.

The great glen is a tech tonic plate boundary, not just an island. Can't find the image I'm thinking of, but this ones close enough...

BananasAreGood
"Segue means to transition from one thing to another, like between two topics of conversation, and is pronounced segway. No connection to the motorised transport Segway but it is pronounced the same."

The Segway was called that because it's a way for someone to segue - transition from one place to another. That was the point of the name.

Not a plate boundary, but the Great Glen is an ancient strike-slip (sideways) fault. The Scottish Border on the other hand is more or less an ancient plate boundary, the Iapetus Suture where two continents collided closing the ocean between them.

But naturally there was no river between Loch Lochy and Loch Oich. There's a man-made canal linking the two now.

There are too many here that I didn't know. Embarrassingly so.

I had a pair of moleskin trousers back in the 90s that I loved and then "realised" what they were made of so stopped wearing them

Someone upthread mentioned 'is the pope a catholic?' ... it was quite recently I found out that the answer to that is, 'not necessarily' .... there is also a Coptic Pope

@NotJustThreeSmallWords - Moleskin trousers.

Isn't moleskin just a thick cotton cloth which has a pile shorter than plush?

I once met someone who argued for hours that “flip flops” were invented by a French man called Phillippe Fellope - absolutely wouldn’t have that she was wrong 😳

@nc4outing that really made me giggle