Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Is there a tribute band called Mission of Myanmar yet?

this flag:

https://www.theflagshop.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/h/a/hawaii-flag-std.jpg

I thought suede was synthetic leather until a suspicion popped into my head while I was listening to the new Suede album a few days ago

[Bloodsports is] a very Suede title. Typically evocative and strangely perverse. Tell me how it came about and what it means?

Brett Anderson: It's about lust, chase, the endless carnal game of love. The title came up very early. It was almost the first thing and it seemed to sum up in a cheeky, cynical way the game of love, the bloody game of love. It's not to be taken literally. I'm not a barbarian. I don't go foxhunting or badger baiting. I was slightly worried that people might assume it was pro-bloodsports but obviously it's a metaphor. I'm still vegetarian.

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Via the Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you thread...

I never noticed that Bros were so named because they were brothers. I just thought the name was a meaningless random syllable.

Oh for the days when bros was a meaningless random syllable.

wondering whether the pronunciation of that band name may have drifted from the original rhymes-with-toss to rhymes-with-toes, ie seen as more of a plural of "bro" than shortening of "brothers"?

No.

Thanks!

ONe of them went onto an acting career, played things like the upstart prince in Hellboy II

& oh yeah it's Matt & Luke Goss so the surname rhymes with the bandname.
Did it originally derive from Moss Bros the men's outfitters who were one letter away from the family name?

I think it derived from the fact that their surname was Goss and they were bros

I think Moss Bros was a fixture of most high streets at one point.
& I'm seeing that people are wondering about the pronunciation.

Would recognise they were brothers but not sure if bros(s) is an immediate formulation you get to as anything other than a total abstraction without there being a cultural signifier which was around. So can see them seeing Moss bros and thinking of themselves as the Goss Bros otherwise would think they would have the other pronunciation.

smh at the Stalinists itt erasing Ken

I think they called themselves Gloss before they became Bros.

That 'cockpit' originally referred to a space reserved for cockfighting and was adapted to denote the area of a ship where injured crewmen were taken (and which was often a bloody mess, resembling its linguistic forebear).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-operative_Party

^ third biggest party in British politics

https://twitter.com/i/status/1050819794285580289

real size of countries distorted by Mercator projection. wtf, this should have been covered in first form geography!

This video shows the size bias caused by the (very common) Mercator projection of the entire planet. #gistribe #gis #maps. From https://t.co/sFvqaFOmSR pic.twitter.com/fdnNRjuoOD

— Guillaume Larocque (@GuillaumeLarocq) October 12, 2018

Susi Grant isn't an Irish teacher.
Only found that out today

I *knew* Russia couldn't be that big!!
tiny losers

they are taking the piss tbf!

I don't mind Greenland doing it.

Bob Grant got his dick cast by Cynthia Plaster (????????)

THis Bob Grant?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Grant_(actor)

No the conservative talk radio host

I finally remembered to look up what double parking means today (parking beside a parked car in a traffic lane, not taking up two parking spots)

THis Bob Grant?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Grant_(actor)

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3229/2451075678_5edbe06e95_z.jpg

Jefferson Airplane was the US West Coast Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention was the English Jefferson Airplane

Bob Grant got his dick cast by Cynthia Plaster (????????)

I went to an exhibition of her collection of casts many years ago, and Bob Grant's was there.

The pronunciation of the word "gazebo," which I thought was pronounced "gays-bow" until at least the 8th grade.

Sympathetic lol. If I had a nickel for every word in my vocabulary whose pronunciation I had to learn the hard way...

I read 'determined' as 'deter-minded' when I was a kid.

Found out yesterday that Cartesian geometry was named after Descartes...

recently I had the blinding insight that Pekinese dogs were named for Peking/Beijing

oh i thought that said "weren't named for" for a second and had a heart flutter

i was shockingly old when i really thought about why people mispronounce words. it’s because they learned them by reading, and that is cool, not dumb. if you grow up in a place with no gazebos or people talking about gazebos then of course you pronounce it gaze-bo, because the actual pronunciation makes no sense.

still kinda bitter about my parents laughing when a wee me brought up the ancient greek philosopher So Crates

that is otm

xp So Crates, the mentor of Play-Doh

Aris-Toddles

Epic Wheatus?

I think I was lucky enough to never have to say the words epi-tome and hyper-bowl before learning how they were actually pronounced, but I did think they were pronounced that way

lol

This is the thread we tend to use for youthful misreadings of words not heard aloud, yes? I was thinking the other day about how when I was a kid I always used to read the word bedraggled as “bed-raggled”, which made sense to me as it meant looking like you’d just got out of bed

I surely mentioned 'froot-eye-on' (aka 'fruition') itt. Surely I did.

When I was a kid I would get puzzled by the use of the past participle of the unfamiliar verb “infrare”

Neneh (Cherry) is pronounced Neh-neh not Nayner.

Barfly was my favorite of this particular type of misunderstanding

I would go to the video store and wonder would you call a movie Barfly? Is it about barf?

it's a syllable boundary mistake more often than not

I just realised that the cover of Bowie's Tonight is a nod to Gilbert & George, duh x infnity

I don't know if this is actually true, but it recently occurred to me that the Elton John "Empty Garden" John Lennon tribute song ("Won't you come out to play in your empty garden") is a reference to Lennon's last stage appearance with Elton at Madison Square Garden.