[Misc] Strange And Obvious Things You Should Know But Only Found Out Late..

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

Just to blow a few minds (I’ve know this for years)

You can’t score an own goal from your own set piece, it would be a corner.

 

[WATFORD zero]

We pronounce homophones differently depending on whether it's a verb or a noun.

I only recently clocked that we do this with a multitude of words but it never really registered with me.

Some examples:

Project
Permit
Conduct
Suspect
Increase
Progress
Contract

In fact there are so many of these, my mind was blown.

I just found out that I didn't know what homophones means

Obviously, I do now, it's the 21st century

 

[Jeep]

Apparently car headlamps look different to green traffic lights. Being coloured blind I didn't realise until I had been driving for 20+ years.

 

[The Clamp]

I only found out that raisins are actually grapes when I was about 35.

I was told that young but didn’t believe it until I was about 15.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Just to blow a few minds (I’ve know this for years)

You can’t score an own goal from your own set piece, it would be a corner.

I've just found out that this a great thread for learning how much I don't know

 

[The Clamp]

I discover every Saturday night about this time that one can eat too much curry. Urrrghhhhh.

 

[raymondo]

The name ABBA is an acronym of the christian names of the artists who form the band.

So is IKEA, except they are not a band and the spouses are involved somehow

 

[raymondo]

The older I get the less I know

 

[Bodian]

We pronounce homophones differently depending on whether it's a verb or a noun.

I only recently clocked that we do this with a multitude of words but it never really registered with me.

Some examples:

Project
Permit
Conduct
Suspect
Increase
Progress
Contract

In fact there are so many of these, my mind was blown.

Hang on - aren't homophones different words with the same pronunciation but different meanings? What you're referring to are words that are spelt the same, but have different meaning and pronunciation? Homographs. Or possibly homonyns?

 

[schmunk]

I only found out recently that the little "1, 2, 3, 4 and 5" numerals or numbers on toasters aren't actually 'degrees of toastage' but they're the amount of minutes they toast for!

That's not true.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

My Brother who is 60 has only recently realised that its The Beatles and not The Beetles.
And I only recently got it that Professor Pat Pending from Wacky Races is short for patent pending because he invented things.
And I call others thickos.

 

[schmunk]

So is IKEA, except they are not a band and the spouses are involved somehow

This isn't (quite) true, either...

From Wikipedia: "The brand used by the group is an acronym that consists of the founder's initials, and those of Elmtaryd, the family farm where he was born, and the nearby village Agunnaryd (his hometown in Småland, southern Sweden)."

 

[Taybha]

The Greater Weever fish is not as poisonous as it's smaller cousin the Lesser Weever fish .

Who knew ! .

 

[Algernon]

I was about 13 years old when I realised that the space above my eyebrows and below my hairline was a forehead and not a "forrid" as it was always pronounced by my parents and grand-parents.

 

[raymondo]

This isn't (quite) true, either...

From Wikipedia: "The brand used by the group is an acronym that consists of the founder's initials, and those of Elmtaryd, the family farm where he was born, and the nearby village Agunnaryd (his hometown in Småland, southern Sweden)."

Gosh, what a weird founder!! I defo 'found out late' the true meaning - thanks

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

That the smell of poo doesn't always disperse from a bathroom in10 minutes.
When someone says to me ' I wouldn’t go in there for 10 minutes if I was you' I would take their word for it, but yesterday I went in after my wife gave me the 10 minute warning and it still stank, even with the window open.

 

[zeemeeuw]

The Greater Weever fish is not as poisonous as it's smaller cousin the Lesser Weever fish .

Who knew ! .

Wait till you find out they are both venomous and not actually poisonous at all.

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

I only found out that raisins are actually grapes when I was about 35.

That's interesting

Because grapes in French are raisins

 

[Eeyore]

I only found out that raisins are actually grapes when I was about 35.

I've just found out at 52...

 

[Knocky's Nose]

That's not true.

Well it was on Steve Wright's "Factoids" - so it must be true!