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are there any pairs of words or names that you always confuse with one another?

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I always confuse

Caravaggio - sixteenth century Italian painter

with

Carluccio - an Italian café an deli chain (the interior of the Oxford one was designed by my cousin)

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Arpeggio (sequence of notes)

Archipeligo (sequence of islands)

I always try to combine them.

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Barry Andrews - KBd man w/ XTC
Barry Adamson - wrote pseudo soundtracks for so long, they asked him to do it for real.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link

The names Emma and Claire

The MS Excel icon and the MS Outlook icon

The order of the alphabet between H and M

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

My very elderly grandmother used to confuse "pelmet" and "pelvis", causing hilarity in the curtain shop.

― C J (C J), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

don't think I mix anything up

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

kept calling psychiatrists psychologists

― vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link

The and Teh

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link

kept calling psychiatrists psychologists
-- vita susicivus (n...), January 19th, 2007.

i just say "psychoanalysts-psychiatrists-phychologists" cos i never know what i mean.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Shrinks covers it

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, that's easy for me. There's the one-that-gives-me-pills (psychiatrist) and the one that just talks-a-lot-of-bollocks (psychologist) - but if you've never had either, I can understand the confusion.

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Juoda and syödä! They mean TO DRINK and TO EAT in Finnish but I always get them confused and thus told my teacher that I drink a lot of meat. This is the sort of thing we learn in class. Hmm.

In English I confuse Brighton and Bristol more than I should.

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Paediatrics and the feet one... or is paediatrics the feet one?

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link

paediatrics is the kiddly-fiddlers.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link

And paedophiles are foot fetishists, right I get it

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought they were psychopaths?

― vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

psychopathologist: studies diseases, so he can give them to you

― vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

That's areas set aside for the riding of bicycles (xp)

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

John Updike }{ John Irving

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I did describe someone as behaving as though they were suffering from Stockhausen Syndrome.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha ha, that's great

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link

arse
elbow

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link

ethics/morals

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link

the numbers 4 and 7 in sequences of numbers, for instance a padlock or a memorable date.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link

ILX
work

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

when i was a kid:
bagels-donuts
muffins-cupcakes

but even more recently
jar-bottle

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Swamp Thing

Man Thing

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Shetty

Poppadom

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Shilpa Shetty
Talitha Getty

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Bills Paxton and Pullman
Until recently: Cormac McCarthy and Carson McCullers
Red and green, apparently

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Will Ferrell
Colin Ferrell
Colin Firth

...are all the same person, as far as I'm concerned.

Also Jeremy Paxman and Jeremy Clarkson, as discussed before.

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Bills Paxton and Pullman

OTM

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

YES.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

me too.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh and also!

(and this is distressing, because I love MLP)

Mary Louise Parker and Mary Stuart Masterson

I blame Fried Green Tomatoes.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Swamp Thing
Man Thing

This is the only pair in the list that I confuse too.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers / Jonathan Rhys-Davies

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

paxton/pullman is SO true!

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Jonathans Lethem and Franzen, although as so much now that I've actually read some Lethem.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I sometimes get the Dimbleby brothers mixed up.

The Attenboroughs as well, come to think of it.

But never the McWhirters, despite them being twins.

― onimo (onimo), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

having a final exam in a course i've been blowing off all term and don't even know the location of : dreaming

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I've got one of my own now: Ted Nugent & Todd Rundgren. I had to google to check that the guy who's a racist is not the same person as the guy who had a feud with the Lennons, and in the time it took me to write this I have already forgotten which is which.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Mel Gibson, Mel Brooks

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

the correct spelling & the incorrect spelling

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

For years thought Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis were the same person, and I still don't know which is which.

― chap (chap), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

well done

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Uh, thanks?

― chap (chap), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Not in terms of what/who they are, but when attempting to speak:

Wittgenstein/Wittenberg
Flann O'Brien/Flannery O'Connor

And more that I've forgotten...

― emil.y (emil.y), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Likewise:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

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Duncan Browne
Duncan Mackay

― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 March 2024 11:59 (four weeks ago) link

Orville Peck
Orville Sash(hhhhhhhhh)

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 18 March 2024 07:17 (four weeks ago) link

Janaček opera edition:

Katya Kabanova
Jenůfa

― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 18 March 2024 15:39 (four weeks ago) link

They're both amazing of course.

― glumdalclitch, Monday, 18 March 2024 15:55 (four weeks ago) link

Yep

― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 18 March 2024 17:38 (four weeks ago) link

Gordon Lightfoot / Peter Skellern

― fetter, Monday, 18 March 2024 18:04 (four weeks ago) link

!!?!??!

― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Monday, 18 March 2024 18:28 (four weeks ago) link

John Miles / Peter Skellern
Leo Sayer / Gilbert O'Sullivan

― shave and a haircut, two brits (Matt #2), Monday, 18 March 2024 18:31 (four weeks ago) link

Oh, yes to Leo/Gilbert, definitely.

― Madchen, Monday, 18 March 2024 18:43 (four weeks ago) link

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
New Riders of the Purple Sage

― UKXEPCTED TWITS (WmC), Monday, 18 March 2024 19:03 (four weeks ago) link

OTM

― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Monday, 18 March 2024 19:06 (four weeks ago) link

Kenny Rankin
Michael Franks

― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 05:10 (three weeks ago) link

Robertson Davies
Robert Davieson

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 12:07 (three weeks ago) link

Gotye
Hozier

― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:08 (three weeks ago) link

George Shearing
George Russell

― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:33 (three weeks ago) link

Wyatt Langford (big-deal baseball prospect)
Wyatt Langmore (cousin of Ruth, trailer-park intellectual from the Ozarks)

― clemenza, Thursday, 21 March 2024 18:06 (three weeks ago) link

Tim Buckley
Tim Hardin
Tim Moore
Tim Rose
Tom Rush
Tom Rapp

― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 March 2024 18:10 (three weeks ago) link

(xpost) I should have put them in the future edition--Wyatt Langford hasn't been around long enough for me to mix him up with anybody.

― clemenza, Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:41 (three weeks ago) link

Wow, some people seem to view that other thread as a sort of radioactive wasteland like in The Chrysalids or something, so I’m glad you even consider posting on it

― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 March 2024 00:54 (three weeks ago) link

lol

― budo jeru, Friday, 22 March 2024 02:11 (three weeks ago) link

Stefanie Powers of Hart to Hart
Stepfanie Kramer of Hunter

with Stephanie Zimbalist of Remington Steele looming to muddy the waters further

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 22 March 2024 21:57 (three weeks ago) link

Oman
Onan
Imam
Iman

― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 22 March 2024 23:59 (three weeks ago) link

Vetiver
Verbena

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 23 March 2024 01:06 (three weeks ago) link

The Squid and the Whale
The Snail and the Whale

― Madchen, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 11:42 (three weeks ago) link

Barbara Murray
Barbara Shelley

Hazel Court
Barbara Shelley

― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 11:48 (three weeks ago) link

Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft

― Astarion Is Born (Leee), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 14:12 (three weeks ago) link

Jean Baudrillard
Roland Barthes

I may have said this before. No matter how hard I try, I _cannot_ get these two straight. Every time I reference one of the two, which is _constantly_, I have to look up which is which.

― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:09 (three weeks ago) link

Barbara Murray
Barbara Shelley

this plus barbara steele for me (all three of whom make appearances in different danger man episodes)

will forever be confused by erics porter & portman

― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 22:30 (three weeks ago) link

Frankie Rose
Frankie Cosmos

― jaymc, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 22:38 (three weeks ago) link

Martin Landau
John Cassavetes

― squirm baby squirm (Matt #2), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 14:14 (two weeks ago) link

Probably been mentioned before: Martina McBride and Mindy McCready. I wanted something to play in the car on the drive home yesterday, so I ducked into a thrift shop and bought two Martina McBride CDs for a dollar each. Was happy to see that Christgau thought they were as numbingly generic as I did.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 14:17 (two weeks ago) link

Neil Jordan/Neil Breen

― soref, Thursday, 28 March 2024 14:16 (two weeks ago) link

Kristen Schaal
Jenny Slate

― meatster of puppets (peace, man), Friday, 29 March 2024 18:09 (two weeks ago) link

Neil Breen/Neal Brennan

― henry s, Friday, 29 March 2024 18:12 (two weeks ago) link

yes.

― budo jeru, Friday, 29 March 2024 18:49 (two weeks ago) link

Alan Holdsworth
Adrian Belew

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 29 March 2024 19:01 (two weeks ago) link

Topper Headon / Tippi Hedren (only when I read the names)

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 4 April 2024 15:18 (one week ago) link

Whenever people mention Jonah Goldberg I picture Jonah Hill, which is often hilarious

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 4 April 2024 15:26 (one week ago) link

lol I've been thinking about Doughy Pantload lately for whatever reason (which is a nickname that I guess could apply to either of them?).

― Andrew Marvell Cinematic Universe (Leee), Thursday, 4 April 2024 17:48 (one week ago) link

NWOBHM
NSBM

― hogarth brooks (unregistered), Sunday, 7 April 2024 01:55 (one week ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/xDF2vPr.jpeg

― hogarth brooks (unregistered), Sunday, 7 April 2024 01:58 (one week ago) link

Keith Levene
Keith LeBlanc

now I get to be sad twice

― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 7 April 2024 02:13 (one week ago) link

Vic Chesnutt
Cody Chesnutt

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:54 (five days ago) link

Oh damn, and I just now realized that I've been confusing

Cody Chesnutt
Joey Chesnut

― peace, man, Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:56 (five days ago) link

Sorry, that's

Cody Chesnutt
Joey Chestnut

― peace, man, Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:56 (five days ago) link

restaurant critic Robert Sietsema
restaurant critic Tom Sietsema

(they're distant cousins apparently)

― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:40 (five days ago) link

I recognize the first name from the Village Voice book, where he wrote for a decade.

― clemenza, Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:43 (five days ago) link

can’t really explain it, but

fred armison
hank azaria

― mookieproof, Monday, 15 April 2024 06:22 (yesterday) link

Ed Kuepper
Eric Kupper

― henry s, Monday, 15 April 2024 12:49 (yesterday) link

whenever i see Ed Kuepper, for a split second i think, was he in the Fugs?? then i realize the name is making me conflate Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg

― budo jeru, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 04:38 (three hours ago) link

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