What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?

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Anonymous wrote:I threw a big dinner party last year and served quinoa. I pronounced it quinn-o-a. Everyone laughed at me, so it was a little embarrassing, but I'd never heard it pronounced before!

That was on a commercial a few years ago, but he pronounced it “Queen-oh!”

https://youtu.be/TobvW77tuwQ

This is awesome. I am pronouncing it "Queen-oh" from now on.

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Anonymous wrote:That Jews are not considered white. I was born in the hood and actually never knew anyone Jewish or at least no one that said “I’m Jewish” until I was about 38 years old. I wasn’t educated on the anything about Jewish culture or even the Holocaust. I never understood why Jews would say they were discriminated against, because to me they looked white. I was really ignorant to all things Jewish until my then 7 year old DD starting learning about it the Holocaust in school. I felt pretty stupid. But it was never anything I was taught about.

What? Jews of Eastern European descent are considered white. (Not all Jews are from Eastern Europe, or Europe at all).

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Despite both being Christian, white people and black people don't go to the same churches

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For a word game competition in college i pronounced Sobriquet as so- bri - que - T.

Everyone laughed at me . Worse when it was their turn to speak, they delibertely purposely mispronounced all the words they were using i.e. K - nife, buffe-T, etc. The audience, the comp and all the participants were in stiches!

I still die a thousand deaths when i think of this.

On a related note (there is a theme here), I pronounced hyperbole as hyper-bowl. My BF at the time asked if it was a larger version of the superbowl. Cringe!

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That when someone sneezes, people are saying "Bless you" and not "Bleshew"

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Anonymous wrote:The meaning of the lyrics of most of my favorite songs from the 70s...and 80's for that matter!

The correct LYRICS to some popular songs.

Embarrassing.

I remember playing the same songs over and over, pen in hand, trying to figure out the lyrics so I could write them down. Kids nowadays will never know the joy of FINALLY figuring out what they were singing after listening for the 200th time in a row.

OMG

Up until recently, DH (in his late 50's) thought the lyrics to The Police song "Every Breath You Take" said, "he's a pool-hall ace" instead of "How my poor heart aches"

Are you sure he’s not saying pool hall ace? Sigh.

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Anonymous wrote:Despite both being Christian, white people and black people don't go to the same churches

And Korean churches, and other divided churches. I learned this in my early 20s, after growing up Muslim. While I am no longer practicing, one of the best things about being a minority religion is that you don't have a lot of religious establishments, so you all gather together. Indians & South Asians, Arabs, Africans, Black Muslims, Asian Muslims, European/White Muslims and a few Hispanic Muslims, converts, etc. All praying side by side in one room.

I will say that the gender segregation was very prominent though, and still is to a slightly lesser extent. And I was, and still am bothered by it. But growing up I had no idea churches often divided along race/ethnic lines.

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Anonymous wrote:I threw a big dinner party last year and served quinoa. I pronounced it quinn-o-a. Everyone laughed at me, so it was a little embarrassing, but I'd never heard it pronounced before!

That was on a commercial a few years ago, but he pronounced it “Queen-oh!”

https://youtu.be/TobvW77tuwQ

This is awesome. I am pronouncing it "Queen-oh" from now on.

My husband and I still say “It’s a Queen-oh” whenever we eat something with quinoa!

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One day I was in sixth grade and was watching the news with my mom. There was some news story that involved the word “feces” and I said, “what’s feces?”

“You know what it is, Larla.

“No, mom I really don’t.”

“Don’t mess with me Larla. You know what feces is”

“I have no idea what feces is, Mom”

“It’s SH*T, Larla! Feces is SH*T! Are you happy now that I said it?”

I really didn’t know what it was. But based on her reaction, maybe I should have

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Anonymous wrote:That it's astigmatism and "a stigmatism."

me too!

This raises an interesting spinoff. Do you correct your spouse when they say something like this? I do, because I don’t want others to think less of my spouse. However, I appreciate it can be viewed as patronizing. I always struggle whether to say something.

Do you have a super formal relationship with your spouse? I would abs. say something in private but maybe I have boundary issues.

NP, I would totally correct my spouse and hope he would correct me. In fact, he got quite a laugh when I was talking about something “coming to fruitation.” I can’t imagine us not laughing over this type of stuff.

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Well into my 30's, I thought vanilla/strawberry/chocolate ice cream was "napoleon flavored" until realizing it was actually Neapolitan. Oops

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That France does not have a king and queen

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Anonymous wrote:I learned how to pronounce "charcuterie" this year.

To be fair, it wasn't a popular fad until the past few years, and I don't eat much meat or cheese.

how do you say it?

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Anonymous wrote:The difference between e.g. and i.e. Was blissfully using them interchangeably until my mid 40s.

Could you please educate me? I'm 43, so right on time to learn this, right?

NP here, I'm 42 and right there with you!

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Anonymous wrote:In the 90s, my sister, getting ready to go to college when she was 18, asked me if our dad would continue to pay the electric bill for her car. She did know how to charge gas on the credit card, but thought there was a separate electric bill.

She was outdone by one of her best friends who realized that you needed to change / refill the oil in your automobile only after her engine melted down - She had never had an oil change since her dad bought her the car - but I blame the dad for that one.

My niece asked my sister why her college roommate, who could not afford gas, didn't just "get one of these BP cards for free gas?" My sister very shockingly explained to her that there is no card for free gas, that it was a credit card, and that they paid it off when she bought gas. Good lord.