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Couldn't remember groomsmen, went with dudesmaids instead.

SuperBrentendo64 Report

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We are certain we know the word we are looking for. The missing term is just within arm’s reach, but for some reason, we find it impossible to recall. We end up feeling frustrated, unsure of our abilities and surprised by how these failures can occur even with the most common words we use. Interestingly, this experience has a scientific term — the tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) phenomenon. As you can guess, it derives from the phrase "it's on the tip of my tongue" and psychologists define it as a feeling that accompanies the momentary inability to retrieve information from memory.

William James was the first psychologist to describe the TOT phenomenon, though he did not label it as such. "The state of our consciousness is peculiar. There is a gap therein; but no mere gap. It is a gap that is intensely active. A sort of wraith of the name is in it, beckoning us in a given direction, making us at moments tingle with the sense of our closeness and then letting us sink back without the longed-for term," he explained in Principles of Psychology in 1890.

My ex called an animal shelter a 'cat refugee camp', I couldn't f*****g breathe

Drivenhydra Report

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40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name I forgot the word for ‘exterminator’ so I used ‘ant exorcist’ instead.

anon , Tuomas Puikkonen Report

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HungryParr0t , olfgang Hasselmann Report

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name My friend couldn't remember the word "cow" for some reason, so she googled "moo beast" to remember.

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To learn more about this experience and how widespread it is, we reached out to John Richard Hanley, emeritus professor of neuropsychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Essex, who studies the tip-of-the-tongue states. Studies have revealed that everyone experiences the inability to retrieve words and information from their memories, and it occurs frequently in everyday life. "As far as we know, the TOT phenomenon is universal," the professor told Bored Panda. "Most languages contain a specific term for a TOT. Moreover, TOTs have been shown to occur even in speakers of a language that does not have a dedicated expression for TOTs."

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name To this day most of my family refers to a strainer/colander as a "noodle stay, water go" because my older brother called it that once when he couldn't find it and needed to ask where it was.

starshock990 , James Yarema Report

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40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name Back in 90s I was 14 and begging my mom to let me go to a Guns n Roses concert..

I kept nagging until she got frustrated but couldnt remember the band name and said:

"I'M NOT LETTING YOU GO TO ANY DAMN DEATH AND FLOWERS CONCERT"

I couldnt stop laughing

MetalHead310 , Yvette de Wit Report

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40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name I know a german who learned english in wales, its the most amazing cluster f**k of accents.
Anyway, a dog ran off with his gloves and he chased after it shouting, 'come back with my hand shoes!'

whatisfishbeef , Evan Kilgore Report

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This phenomenon might be global, but there seems to be no universally accepted cause for using the wrong words or misspeaking from time to time. However, there are scientific theories that try to explain it. "Some researchers claim that the TOT experience exists in order to tell you that you know the elusive name and that you might be able to retrieve it if you spend more time attempting recall," Hanley said.

"TOT states can occur for common names and for all types of proper names," the professor added. "However, they are particularly frequent for names of people. Long names are more prone to TOTs than short names."

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name A polish exchange student was thirsty after a nightout and didn't know what to say. He pointed to his mouth and said Sahara.

Khoasama , Timothy Dykes Report

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#10

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name Couple weeks ago I was getting a pack of darts, needed some change for parking meters. As the girl is getting my change out I was panicked, what is it called? My mind blank all I could get out of my dumb maw was "can I have my change in metal money?". In my 30s and the word coin apparently got replaced by some dumb s**t I likely read here

jhra , krahmee bretana Report

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#11

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name Christmas Llama instead of reindeer.

EduardLaser , Norman Tsui Report

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We were curious to learn what happens to people when they experience these cognitive issues. Hanley explained that when in a TOT state, "we can recall detailed biographical information about the person; it is only the name that is elusive." Moreover, "we generally even know whether the elusive name contains 2 words (e.g. Gwyneth Paltrow) or 3 words (e.g. Jamie Lee Curtis)."

It’s hard to deny that experiencing a TOT moment can be extremely annoying. After all, it’s not that you can’t remember the concept of that word but that you can’t find a way to express it. When something does trigger your memory and you finally find the language label you were looking for, you feel a wave of relief sweep over your frustration. "One researcher made the point that a TOT can be as intense as a feeling that you are about to sneeze, so I assume that this is true," the professor said.

#12

My boyfriend thought it was clever when I asked what the right word was for "an angry parade".

....a protest.

BeastModePwn Report

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#13

Once when my husband was on pain meds (after having surgery), he asked for a "cylindrical water storage device."

Cup. He wanted a cup.

Caitriona67 Report

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#14

I can't remember who said it, but ever since I heard a person call a cupcake a party muffin they are permanently renamed in my mind.

bad_idea_theater Report

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Moreover, it seems that this phenomenon becomes more frequent with age. Word-finding problems are nearly a stereotypical element of the cognitive issues that trouble older adults. "We do indeed experience more TOTs in old age, and this is particularly true for the names of familiar people," the professor added. Diary studies have found that TOTs occur about once a week for younger adults and increase to about once a day for older adults. Also, researchers consider that this is caused by older adults showing retrieval failure of known words, and needing more "search" time to find the awol word.

#15

At Target, I asked for "a can of bug-murder". I forgot "insecticide" or even "bug spray". The dude took it in stride, didn't flinch.

Pepsistopheles Report

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#16

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name I once had to listen to my mother tell a 10 minute story about all the honkers she saw at the park.

Geese. She meant geese.

Knerdian , Mario015 Medeiros Report

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#17

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name My mom referred to Guitar Hero as "Carpet Banjo" one time. Me and my friends still call it that.

Shell058 , Cassidy James Blaede Report

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But it turns out that getting some exercise and leading a healthy life could protect us against language decline in old age. Katrien Segaert, lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham found in her latest study that fitter people are less likely to experience TOT moments than those who lack fitness. "We found that the higher the older person’s aerobic fitness level was, the lower their odds of experiencing a tip-of-the-tongue moment," she wrote. "A person’s age and the number of words a person knows also determine the frequency of experiencing tip-of-the-tongue moments. What is important is that the relationship between the frequency of tip-of-the-tongue moments and aerobic fitness levels exists over and above the influence of a person’s age and vocabulary size."

#18

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name Couldn't remember the word Athlete so I went with Sportician.

mowachoo , James Barr Report

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#19

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name "Long sleeved shorts"
I forgot the word for pants.

southern_nightingale , Redd Report

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#20

My buddy once referred to an air horn as 'spray scream'.

Kitty-Zombie Report

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#21

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name Growing up, we had a piece of furniture that we didn't know what to call. Was it a bureau? A dresser?

We agreed to call it "Uncle Fred." We forget that's weird until we have company.

RainyDayNinja , Clay Banks Report

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#22

When my sister was young, she didn't know the word "cemetary" so she just called it a "dead-people field".

Arie008 Report

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#23

At one point I started googling "map of the year" because my brain short-circuited and I couldn't recall the word "calendar".

goatywizard Report

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#24

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name Sausage tweezers

My husband wanted me to pass him the cooking tongs.

NiteliteBunnyFrite , Marek Mucha Report

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#25

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name At a house party when this trashed bro comes up to me:

Hey man, I'm about to score. You got one of those . . . uh . . . plastic penis . . . socks?

smokehidesstars , Renate Vanaga Report

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#26

I couldn't remember "oven mitt" so I called it "heat gauntlet." I really like the word gauntlet.

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186points

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#27

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name My buddy couldn't find the world for lungs, came up with breath sacks.

TheGiantCackRobot , CDC Report

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#28

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name Yesterday, I forgot what the shade is, and it was really hot outside so I told my friend "lets chill at the dark place"

anon , Nathan Dumlao Report

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#29

Compressed Horse for pony. He was a foreign exchange student from Germany.

CrossBreedP Report

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#30

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name I once referred to a flyswatter as a "bug spatula" when the name escaped me .

fearlessnightlight , sugarfrizz Report

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#31

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name Breakfast soup. (The word he was looking for was cereal.)

fatbabyotters_ , freestocks Report

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#32

This came to my mind when I read a post on Reddit where a girl called a feather a "bird leaf".

the_slippery_shoe Report

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#33

I couldn’t think of the word “robe” so I asked a friend if they’d seen my “towel jacket.”

VictoriaNicole Report

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#34

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name I can't remember the word "lid" half the time. So during work I sometimes run to the back in search of "drink hats". I get weird looks a lot...

Foxtrottings , Tom Crew Report

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#35

I once called toothpase "tooth soap" because it was 8 am and I was not ready for life.

zxcllvbyjuj Report

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#36

My girlfriend was frustrated because she couldn't find her shoehorn, and then said loudly "WHERE IS THE BOOT SPOON".

cthlpls Report

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#37

I was playing pictionary with some friends, and the prompt was skunk, so I did my best to draw a skunk. My friend yelled "STINKY CAT"

Majora26 Report

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#38

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name I met this french girl on a recent trip, and she called it a "muscle hangover", when looking for the word sore.

f1del1us , Klara Kulikova Report

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#39

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name Toilet paper = s**t tickets

bjarni81 , Erik Mclean Report

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#40

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name My mum always says wanky candles instead of Yankee candles. She's always horrified when she does it.

amityville Report

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#41

I've got a little cousin who's quietly a genius at this.

When she was three and just learning the names of different body parts, she got a cut on her ankle playing outside and was trying to tell me. Only she couldn't remember the name for ankle -- so it became her "foot wrist".

The exact reverse happened a few weeks later, when she couldn't remember the name for her elbow, so she called it her "arm's knee".

By far my favorite example, though, is when she couldn't remember the word "remember". She told me a knock-knock joke, and then when I asked her where she got it, she stared at me blankly for a second and said, "...I found it in my head."

"You made it up?" I asked her.

"No...I heard it somewhere, and put it in my head, and then I went in there and found it again."

It's absolutely fantastic. She's six now, and as she learns more words it's starting to happen less and less, but every once in a while she'll whip out a gem. She's probably created more running jokes in our family in her six years than I have in my two decades.

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#42

I once called the Navy "the aqua army".

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#43

Years ago my boyfriend and I were super baked and he was just like "okay so I know this probably isn't the right word, but can you hand me the volume squirter" he meant tv remote, but the new name stuck. Since then we've always referred to it as a volume squirter.

MaesterOfPanic Report

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nottaclevername , RODOLFO BARRETO Report

#44

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name My unmedicated ADHD (while preggo) caused my mouth to outpace my vocabulary quite often.
I wish I could remember more of them, but my husband won't let me live down "time circle." I meant clock.

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#45

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name Called a labcoat a Science Vest.

SneakNSnore , Logan Ingalls Report

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#46

My little brother who was around 6 at the time really wanted popcorn, and he asked if he could have some of the "boom puffs."

Trason8 Report

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#47

I've had a mild stroke so sometimes it's hard to think of the right word. My favorite one is "water rope" for garden hose.

auntiepink Report

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#48

Hush puppies were once called "shut up dogs" by my cousin when she couldn't think of the name.

Protein8256 Report

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#49

Called a fan the air blender.

Superbobski Report

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#50

I work as a gunsmith...I forgot what calipers were called one day...they are now forever known as "measurydoos"

Supergunner223 Report

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#51

I once worked with a German guy who asked me what the English word for 'a snail without a house on his back'. Took me a while to work out he meant a slug.

German for slug translates to naked snail.

Cheapdime Report

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#52

Stuck in traffic. SO called to ask how it was. I said it was a*s to mouth over here. I couldn’t remember the phrase “bumper to bumper”.

dphung Report

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#53

The other week I completely forgot the word "aquarium". My best guess was "fish zoo".

Daiwon Report

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#54

I work with a Spaniard who was NOT familiar with some or local fauna.

OK if you're in the city -- bad if you are living at a children's camp.

Someone dropped a toad down his back. Once he extracted himself from the visitor, he asked:

"What do you call this thing? This jumping pile of s**t!"

r3jjs Report

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#55

When my girlfriend was stoned she asked "how do I turn on the umbrella sticks" when talking about windshield wipers

47sams Report

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#56

I recently struggled to think of the word ‘Oval’, so instead landed on “the circle rectangle”.

nitnitwickywicky Report

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#57

My friend once called his shoulder a 'high elbow'...

ONeill117 Report

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#58

A friend of mine once said "plane station" instead of airport

CootyMcBooty Report

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WilshireLongwinded Report

#59

I mixed up Hamburger Helper and ended up calling it Beef Aid.

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#60

My dad can't pronounce aluminum, but he tries. One time, he was asking for the "aluminum foil" because he was cooking, got sick of stuttering over the pronunciation, and just went with, "Kiddo, can you hand me the shiny paper?"

Mistah-Jay Report

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Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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Thrill-Seeking Diver Jumps Down Extreme Waterslide, Ignoring The Strict Ban For Women

#61

My friend couldn't remember the word "cauldron" one Halloween and referred to it as a "witch bucket."

iljs618 Report

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#62

My dad let me watch him work on things in the garage when I was little. He thought it was hilarious that I called sparks "fire crumbs"

When my brother was little, we were watching some medical show, and he forgot the term for eye sockets. Instead, he called them "eye ditches".

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#63

We were planning to go watch fireworks while the sun was going down, but I couldn't for the life of me think what the word was, so I ended up going with "Last call for the Sun" as me and my friends have all worked in clubs and bars, still can't live that down.

the8roundshock Report

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#64

I once called a Ferris wheel a "vertical carousel" because I forgot the name.

TittyKittyKing Report

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Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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“Ma’am I Live Here”: Woman Refuses To Back Out Of Driveway, Learns A Lesson The Hard Way

#65

I was trying to say microscope, but I accidentally called it a reverse telescope..

50Shekel Report

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#66

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name Didn't know what to call people from Japan as a kid so I decided on "Japanicans".

BucKramer , Tianshu Liu Report

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#67

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name My girlfriend worked at the goodwill and someone had donated a trumpet. But none of her coworkers knew what it was called and she told them it was a trumpet. But for some reason they didn't believe her.

Despite her best efforts, they eventually labeled it "Brass thing" and sold it that way.

hold_up_bro , Eric Awuy Report

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#68

Dizzy daisy instead of lazy Susan.

purplegal1970 Report

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#69

My boyfriend came across a wand on my desk the first time he visited my house. He kinda looked at it, held it up, and goes "did you make this....this *wizarding stick*?"

My mom, who was also present, still hadn't let him live it down three years later.

dannixxphantom Report

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#70

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name Arm knees.

B4_da_rapture_repent , 莉彭 Report

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#71

My best flub was when I couldn't remember the word for water, so I called it drinking fluid.

TessellatedCoil Report

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Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

#72

My ex and I were hanging out one day trying to figure out what we wanted to do. I suggested maybe a walk in the park, a trip to the zoo, etc. when all of a sudden his face lit up and he gleefully asked "WHAT ABOUT THE AQUA MUSEUM?!"

It took me a good few seconds to realize he meant the "aquarium".

wtfhannahey Report

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#73

My sister was telling me about how shitty periods are and she wanted to tell me that I would understand when I got a *daughter* but instead she said "youll get it when you get a girlchild".

dodobirdmen Report

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Mom Leaves $250k Inheritance To Son, Throws A Fit When Daughter Stops Looking After Her

#74

I forgot what the letter G was called the other day so i referred to it as the 'round K'.

No, I don't know where I was going with that either.

nailbudday Report

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#75

Couldn't remember "camouflage," so I said "Army pattern" instead. Felt like an idiot when my friends corrected me.

The_Late_Gatsby Report

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#76

I was out drinking with a Dutch friend of mine. He forgot the word for sidewalk and called it a pedestrian road.

storm-bringer Report

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#77

"what is it Jewish people wear on their heads.... Hmm ... Oh, Yamahas"

Bob at work last week.

He also streams neckflick for movies and TV shows.

Bob just turned 60

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Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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“This Breaks My Heart”: People Stunned—And Angry—After Woman Buys Lost Luggage From Airport

#78

Buddy once called a guitar a "funky lookin' violin" and a raven a "huge a*s crow"

Rough_Cut Report

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#79

Someone from my local subreddit asked her doctor for "anti-baby".

Reddit-Loves-Me Report

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SugarButterFlourEgg Report

#80

Look-in-your-ear thing. Listen-to-your-heart thing. Arm-hugging-blood-pressure-pump thing.

Things you might find in a doctor's office.

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#81

40 Times People Failed To Remember What A Simple Thing Is Called So They Came Up With The Most Hilarious New Name When I was learning French, I couldn't remember the word for "toes", so I called them "the fingers of the foot."
Edit: the French word is "orteil"

rmlikewise , sq lim Report

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#82

I once forgot the word for "letters" and asked my coworker how many alphabet numbers a word had.

allibys Report

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"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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Guy Divorced 3 Years Ago Drops Off 3 Y.O. With His Ex-Wife Completely Out Of The Blue

#83

My wife once referred to a portrait as "Frank Funyion" because she couldn't remember the name "Paul Bunyan"

Frank Funyion is now forever immortalized in our household in a painting.

ARIZaL_ Report

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#84

Once had a friend who called an ambulance a hospital van.

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#85

Spinach is "the good lettuce."

DubiousCosmos Report

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#86

I have a few words that I've done this with. My girlfriends favorite is when I called the humidifier the air waterer.

30_rack_of_pabst Report

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#87

Guy I worked with referred to Planned Parenthood as "Planet Parent Hollywood" in all ernesty.

discontentia Report

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“All Three Shot Out Pink”: Triplets' Baby Shower Turns Sour, Pregnant Wife Wants A Divorce

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#88

My boyfriend does this all the time. My favourite ever was "oil boiled" for deep fried but others have included "letter house" (envelope), "potato claws" (kitchen tongs) and "bread cooker" (toaster).

PM_ME_BUNNY_PICSS Report

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#89

Someone once referred to an apostrophe as a "high comma." Still makes me giggle.

HamfacePorktard Report

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#90

My girlfriend called a gate, “the fence door.”

leland73 Report

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#91

Couldnt rember knuckle, so i called them finger elbows

Jmscrvnts Report

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#92

Just this week my wife invented the term "tree chunk" when she forgot the word "wood".

irwinlegends Report

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#93

My mum who speaks English and couple of Chinese dialects equally well has these:

Animal touch farm = petting zoo

Car immobiliser stick = steering lock

Saelyre Report

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ImStealingTheTowels Report

#94

English is my boyfriend's second language and while he's fluent, he sometimes directly translates from his native language into English when he can't remember the specific word for something.

The latest one is "water cooker" when really he means "kettle". I've stopped correcting him because I think it's great.

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#95

My friend called the bleachers "baseball stairs". He's never living that down.

superluig164 Report

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#96

English is my boyfriend's second language, frequently he directly translates words if he doesn't know the English version and it usually gets him by.

My favorite was when he inquired about the "Wine Berries".

MizSanguine Report

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#97

Friend is Norwegian. She couldn't remember the English word for "monkey."

Apparently the direct translation of monkey in Norwegian is "ape-cat."

We were watching Harry Potter the other day. Dumbledore is "Bumbletwist."

Another favorite is "Grass Dude," or pineapple.

sharmalarm Report

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#98

I couldn't remember my wifes sisters name or spit out the word "sister" so I just referred to her as "That girl you're related to that's younger than you".

Tucker33 Report

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#99

My mother needed to clean a tile floor. She wondered if there was some contraption, like a "pole with bristle sticks on the end." We showed her a broom.

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#100

During chemistry, a friend of mine asked me to pass him the 'temperature rod'. He wasn't trying to crack a joke so we all stared at him confusingly.
Turns out, he was referring to the thermometer

firex9785 Report

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#101

When hungry a friend once asked if we had any of "those eat things".

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#102

When my son was around 3 he made up all sorts of names. Some of my favorites were:

Swim dog = Sea Lion
Swim Pig = hippopotamus
Ice Cream Cheerios = Fruit Loops
Halloween Dog = Frankenweenie

downwithwindows Report

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14points

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#103

My boyfriend's mum once called a triangle a 'squared off diamond'

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13points

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#104

My mate once referred to stairs as "the walk-down"

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13points

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#105

Once had someone order a drink from me, but they struggled when I asked if they needed a garnish. They settled for "green lemon", they were thinking of lime.

Edit: I guess lime is literally translated as green lemon in many languages, so that’s neat.

King_Reason Report

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13points

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#106

My dad accidentally called Chipotle Chipoodle once. He got very angry when my brother and I wouldn’t stop laughing at him.

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Final score:

12points

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NotReallyACatPerson Report

#107

"Coldness quarantine" when I forgot the name for a cooler.

I hadn't even had any of the alcohol that was in the cooler, my brain just decided to stop working for a second...

maddkid53 Report

Final score:

12points

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#108

My dad just referred to my mum's cup of coffee as hot juice.

Final score:

12points

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That'sEndorable 2 years ago (edited)

I have a touch of aphasia. Usually harmless, but I didn't realize until I went to a neurologist that my rhythm of speech betrays how often I have to search for words. My ADD medicine helps, and BEFORE I was diagnosed, I think people were too nice to laugh, but sometimes my word-grab fails would crack ME up at least. (McChicken = Bird Burger.) Often they seemed comically pretentious, because they were just random words that I came up short for; it's not like I had a poor vocabulary (chicken nuggets = chicken medallions). They weren't always catchy (shoe = work sneaker), but once in a while, I'd get frustrated and come up with something outrageous (cat = house weasel, fudge = poop candy). "Thingy" still is a common word. (spatula = flippy thingy).

20points

That'sEndorable 2 years ago

I just remembered this one (thanks to another post). Ignorance, not really aphasia, but when I was staying in the Deep South long enough to enroll in school as a kid, and first exposed to Southern-fried steak, I called it "beef schnitzel." I'm actually pretty sure I'm right.

3points

ImdaPrincesse 2 years ago

I feel incredibly seen..

1point

Hey Seb 2 years ago

Aphasia solidarity. Usually people think I'm just being goofy (ex scene-kid. Yikes.) but sometimes word just fail me.

0points

Sheena Morrison 2 years ago

My sister couldn't remember Benedict Cumberbatch's name. He is forever now known as Jason Cummerbund.

19points

Marta Gaj 2 years ago

still better than „this Cucumber guy” as my MIL call poor Benedict :p

9points

Emmett O'Brian 2 years ago

Flumpydump Bandersnatch is my favorite.

2points

Krystal Keener 2 years ago

My favorite mess up on this name is "benadryl cabbagepatch"

1point

Joshua Russell 1 year ago

Bentobox Crumblesnacks

0points

MarioRossi 2 years ago

To be honest, Benedict himself said that his surname "[...] sounds like a fart in a bath".

0points

A James 2 years ago

Stuck on a desert road on my motorcycle with my wife and ran out of water. Finally got moving again and I can tell she's dehydrated and not making a whole lot of sense. We see some cows in a field and she says, "Oh look! Land things!" We use this all the time when we can't remember the right word for something.

19points

Katherine Boag 2 years ago

On a dark desert highway

7points

DuchessDegu 2 years ago

My mum is a specialist on alternative names! Beach deodorant (sun cream), timothy (thermometer), button stick (any remote), tree fox (squirrel)

11points

CairaRose79 2 years ago

Once when I was closing at a fast food place one of my co-workers came over and asked what I still had to do. I couldn't remember the word so I said "I still need to use the wet broom." The look of horror that came over everyone's faces as they realized they also didn't remember the word was priceless. The shift lead came out of the office from putting the tills away for the night and was thoroughly unimpressed that none of us could remember the word "Mop".

9points

Rebecca Stormcrowe 2 years ago

I called it a towel pantry. What I wanted was the linen closet

8points

Seanette Blaylock 2 years ago

Yours works quite well to describe it, I think.

2points

mama loves pugs 2 years ago

This is so frustrating. I can't access half of these articles because they won't open up. I've cleared my cache. What else can I do apart from deleting the app?

8points

Vicky Zar 2 years ago

Use the browser version. It works better than the app in so many ways. You can edit your comments and when you click on a notification you got, it will lead you straight to the comment it was for instead of having to search for it.

3points

Andrea Purzycki 2 years ago

I love Sour Patch Kids. I couldn't remember the name once and called them Spicy Children instead. Now I always call them Spicy Children. I think that I am hilarious. My husband does not.

7points

Christine 2 years ago

Your husband is grossly misinformed. I like that so much I just might use it in the future! (If I can remember to remember, that is... and that's a *big* if)

1point

Peppermallow 2 years ago

i still get harassed for ‘stem things’ when i blanked on the word flower in my youth

6points

Chenga Animates 2 years ago

reminds me of the time I forgot the word for router and called it a "reactor," "receptor," and "realtor" before finally giving up and asking for the word for "the thing that produces wi-fi"

6points

Lawrencium 2 years ago

My son used to refer to his muscles as "my meat."

6points

Seanette Blaylock 2 years ago

He wasn't wrong. :)

2points

River Hambleton 2 years ago

I once called an ambulance a “Hurt People Bus” and later that day I called a rocket an astronaut tube

5points

Tamra Stiffler 2 years ago (edited)

Peckers. My mom had the unfortunate habit of calling bird's beaks, peckers. Usually in public. "Look at that bird's p****r!"

5points

Upstaged75 2 years ago

In high school a friend of mine had a huge truck/SUV that had one of those cow catcher things on the front. (See pic if you don't know what I'm talking about). We were driving in said vehicle one time and another friend forgot what it was called so she referred to it as the Ranch Mangler. LOL! That became the truck's name from then on. car-628e63...698a8a.jpg

4points

Zero 2 years ago

Dated someone who got a low blood sugar drop and kept complaining that the cookie man wouldn't eat his cookies. The CD player in my car wouldn't accept any more CDs. Yes, we got some food in there pretty quickly.

4points

Alicia M 2 years ago

My (very young) son was walking on fallen autumn leaves and called them "tree trash." 🤣

3points

Mary Jeffries 2 years ago

I like ice bear for polar bear.

3points

MelonCloud 2 years ago

That is what a polar bear is called in my native language!

0points

Vladimir I 2 years ago

For some reason all this reminded me of kennings in old nordic poetry. Some those names were quite poetic.

3points

Zero 2 years ago

"Orange pencil that you eat" = carrot.

3points

GaeFrog 2 years ago

I couldn't think of the word hot so i called my fajita temperature spicy the other day..

3points

olx 2 years ago

i always say temperature spicy dnjbdjdbdjdbd

1point

Amy Walgren 2 years ago

My daughter was in the theatre program, which is not me at all. I couldn’t think of the word intermission so I called it halftime.

2points

Axolotl King 2 years ago

I once couldn't remember Pirate so I said "Sea Scoundrel, Steal Your Gold"

2points

Amy Stoesser 2 years ago

One of my students referred to geese as water turkeys.

2points

ZombieGirl 2 years ago

I've been having memory issues the last year or so, and some of the things I've said are "the stuff that would kill me if I drank it" (rubbing alcohol) "That stuff that tickles" (peroxide) "vampire repellant" (garlic) "the fast stick cleaner" (swift duster)....those are just the ones I remember at the moment

2points

Ross Warren 2 years ago

My daughter used to call vanilla pudding "ice cream jelly" when she was younger.

2points

IguanaCircusGirl2000 2 years ago

My sister and I hatched and raised an emu. One day a lady walked by with her child and asked her mom what that was. The mom without missing a beat said, "Oh that's one of them zebra ducks!" and history was made......

2points

Allie Rocheleau 2 years ago

My husband once forgot the word "supreme" for pizza and called it "ultimate." I like it so much better.

2points

Zlata Krabs 2 years ago

Forgot the word for miscarriage and called it 'failed children'

2points

sanityisnotproven 2 years ago

Sister calls bagels dead donuts

2points

Lsai Aeon 2 years ago

I do this all the time. I have chronic severe arthritis and fibromyalgia. Both cause brain fog. I forget words constantly and am always coming up with new words or phrases. It gets a little crazy in my house when this happens, especially when my son is trying to guess what I'm saying since he's on the autism spectrum and ADHD. Good times

2points

Huddo's sister 2 years ago

Fibro fog is the worst! Especially if you are trying to sound competent at work lol.

2points

JB 2 years ago

I wasn’t exposed to IT terms for computers until I went to university, because desktops didn’t exist (nevermind laptops, nor mobile phones, nor…but I digress). We had access to a limited few word processors or the campus mainframe via terminal (dot printers anyone?), so I didn’t acquire much terminology before hitting the ‘real’ world at 24. My first job, I was told to “speak to IT to get your desk and computer set up”. I duly asked the tech if I could please have a “computer, stringy bits for power and information and a pointing clicky thing.”

2points

Izzy Curer 2 years ago

One time, my mom texted me something about the Dollar Tree. Only, she used voice-to-text, and instead of the words 'Dollar Tree', the phone heard 'Tiki Forest'. Which is kind of perfect, so that's what we call it, now.

2points

Eburi - chan 2 years ago

omg i couldn't stop laughing

1point

Stephanie Paich 2 years ago

I once heard a comedian say that an alligator is basically just a floor dinosaur and now I can't call them anything else.

1point

Fricsmom 2 years ago

I use the term ‘ooo ooo juice’ for windshield washer fluid because my first car made an ‘ooo ooo’ sound whenever it was used.

1point

Will Cable 2 years ago

Best one I've heard is a pizza cutter being called "Infinity knife"

1point

Nikki Bastian 2 years ago

My four year old was at the county fair for the first time and pulled us to one of the animal pens, shouting about the "Gobble Chickens" in the turkey pen. She's ten now, and we still ask if she wants Gobble Chicken sammiches for lunch. Cutest thing ever.

1point

Mam cymraeg 2 years ago

This is where I shine my best ones - swirly whirly -electric whisk and the bubbly aka the washing machine also just generally calling people by wrong names and once kept taking to my daughter about her birthday and what date in November to do her party - her birthday is in June

1point

IlovemydogShilo 2 years ago

My dad used to call the static on the old TV screens "Bionic Ants" because the black dots looked like ants jumping around the screen. Also when I was a baby because I couldn't say windshield wipers I used to call them "Clean Lines".

1point

Abigail Dayan 2 years ago

Yesterday I didn't know how to say a broom in German so I said "witches car'

1point

meow point1 2 years ago

Once, I forgot what a beaker was called, so I called it a "science cup".

1point

Kind Pegasus 95 2 years ago

Once I was stoned and I couldn’t remember what My Little Pony was called, so I called it Fabulous Horse show lmao 😂

1point

Procrastinating Panda 2 years ago

Best one I ever hear was calling the Mysterious Benedict Society the Benedict Cumberbatch Society.

1point

WoodenLion 2 years ago

"turdays" = cherries. been like that since my 44 year old daughter called them when she was little. [ didn't know what she wanted for a few days ]

1point

Robert T 2 years ago

When I was little, I used to refer to "sheep and lambs" as "sheep and pieces". LOL

1point

James016 2 years ago (edited)

Some from my child: Sieve - Food Net, Cable Car - Lift Carriage, Barn - Harvest House

1point

Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago

When my sister was a kid our Dad had program files open on his computer. She didn't know what it was called so she referred to it as "the big listy thing". From then on, every time he got a new computer Dad would name the program files shortcut "big listy thing", and when I got my first personal computer I did the same! She also called the electric frypan "the cooky thing", and something else got the name "the hooky thing", though I can't remember what that one was.

1point

Belladonna.dreams 1 year ago

I call everything thingy and Whatchya ma call it because my brain always fails vocab when i need it most

0points

Lisa Shaw 1 year ago

Read one once, a waitress serving a german tourist forgot to give him cutlery and he didn't know/couldn't remember the word in english, so he asked for food weapons.

0points

GadgetGirl 2 years ago

My 23 year old recently: "Oh, I forgot to put my pillow sheet in the wash!" Pillowcase. And also, "I'd like to find clothes with the right length leg sleeves." Pants and Pant Legs.

0points

Krystal Keener 2 years ago

Last year I was working with my bank to get a loan, and I would say I have an above average vocabulary in my everyday life. And then end of the meeting, I wanted to get the phone number direct to the woman I was working with and my mind glitched and I look at her in this horror/confusion mixture and asked for her "call digits". We both just stared at each other across the desk for a minute before laughing til we were crying.

0points

Samia Guled 2 years ago

when I was 9, me and my family was playing the letter game, where you have to find word that starts with a specific letter. when we were on k, I was trying to think of a word, and I said kite boat (kayak), but technically it did work

0points

SkekVi 2 years ago

Aphasia is honestly my #1 favourite source of comedy. We used to call it Noun Disease in my family, and then later after I moved out I learned the word for it.

0points

Liz-ard 2 years ago

My memory have changed from memory like an elephant to memory of a goldfish after some life traumas. I’m now 57. I hate that I now can’t have a normal conversation! But the conversations with my way older brother who is 72 often gets hilarious! We both usually laugh. Some days later, but often nights, the word pops up again, I shout it out and I must stop myself not calling the person who I dropped the word with.

0points

Elizabeth Butler 2 years ago

I used to think there was something wrong with me when that little dark void in my brain would float onto the word or name I was looking for. I was thrilled to discover that little dark void has an actual name -- lethologica, literally "death of word"

0points

Amanda Penton 2 years ago

When my daughter was 5, she had just started speaking. She had a stroke at 3 months during bypass with her second open heart surgery, born with only half of a heart and is Autistic. She would commonly come up with one word or sounds to mimic what she wanted. My favorite was her telling me pat-pat. Pointed to the TV and said pat-pat. For hours we were naming everything we could think of, movies, toys, anything. I start flipping through the channels and wouldn't you know 'Little Einsteins' is on. She gets so happy yelling pat-pat pat-pat. They pat there legs to make rocker go and fly! Lmao I couldn't stop smiling and laughing. It is still so frickin adorable. There have been quite a few but that one will stick we me forever. She is 11 now and she still calls it that.

0points

That nerd Zoe ️‍🇺🇦️‍ 2 years ago

One time I forgot what a paintball gun was called, so I called it a boba paint gun ;-;

0points

OLIVI YAY (she/her)‍ 2 years ago

I once was tryng to say meat stick and beef stick and i ended up with meef stick. Another time, i was making a presenstation and i wanted music to be in the background, so i searched up silent music...

0points

Jesse 2 years ago

Ah yeah, I couldn't remember the French word for "snake" once so I called it a dangerous spaghetti. The lady I was talking to needed a second to compute, but then she laughed and said "oh dear, do you mean sérpent?" bless her

0points

Rhian Williams 2 years ago

The first time my oldest daughter saw a magpie she ran after it shouting "Funny Penguin!"

0points

Kara Born 2 years ago

Can't quit remember why he said it, but my brother started to call erasers (the sort not attached to pencils) Larry. I started doing it too, and then a few others when they needed to use one of mine.

0points

Unnamed Hooman 2 years ago

I tried to find the word contortionist once, and I said “extortionist but stretchy”

0points

Brenda 2 years ago

Read a few on other sites. Fruit Loops = pride cheerios Hangers = hooked Cows = moo moos Cemetery = dead person garden

0points

Mry Cstl 2 years ago

To my mother. Every cereal was. Corn flakes. 😅

0points

Mry Cstl 2 years ago

My partner calls q-tips nose pickers. And tweezers are ear pickers.

0points

Selina Lawrence 2 years ago

I was once in a supermarket with a friend, hadn’t been sleeping well and at that point almost beyond exhaustion, couldn’t remember the words room temperature and my brain helpfully supplied me with ‘shelf volume’ a fact that my friend likes to periodically remind me of - cheers brain!

0points

Jai Stewart 2 years ago

Playing snap with my young son, and I couldn't remember the word for snap- so my brain made me shout woof. Their was a dog on the cards on my defence 😂

0points

memyselfandI 2 years ago

When I was a kid, I called York peppermint patties Yonks because the cursive r looked like an n, so they’re officially Yonks now.

0points

Sandy D 2 years ago

Can't get this to load up?

0points

Emmett O'Brian 2 years ago

When I was a kid, me, my brother and my uncle all made up words. Mine was chaudywogbaga meaning wet wood. Wet wood is actually shorter, but my word lives on. It's taken on a life of its own. It can also refer to something that was once useful but is now ruined.

0points

Barbara Kayton 2 years ago

I am laughing so hard!

0points

lapis lazuli 2 years ago

some of these got to be fake

0points

RandomFrog 2 years ago

I would like to add my own: Wedding-marriage ceremony and Rodeo- horse party

0points

Monica Houghton 2 years ago

My mom - hashbrowns (#) and waterbagels (rutabaga).

0points

T. D. Bostick 2 years ago

Toddler's (and apparently Germans) are an endless source of funny word replacements. I have both (my kids are growing up in Germany), and they've said some pretty ridiculous stuff, for example -babies for -berries (e.g. strawbabies, cranbabies, etc.), 'Puppel' for 'Hummel' (German word for bumblebee), 'A suitor' for 'computer', 'kepchup' for 'ketchup', etc.

0points

Rose the Cook 2 years ago

My father used to get furious with us kids for coming up with strange names for things like this. Mum always knew what we meant and occasionally used the terms herself accidentally asking him to get some misnamed item from the shop. Unfortunately my father had no sense of humor.

0points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

So guilty of this! I get stuck in my native English and use wjhatever words work, even if from another language, LOL.

-1point

Gerdien 2 years ago

Why oh why doesn't this article open on my Android phone while it does open on an iphone?

-1point

Rachel Hall 2 years ago

I'm in android, maybe try clearing your cache?

0points

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That'sEndorable 2 years ago (edited)

20points

That'sEndorable 2 years ago

3points

ImdaPrincesse 2 years ago

I feel incredibly seen..

1point

Hey Seb 2 years ago

Aphasia solidarity. Usually people think I'm just being goofy (ex scene-kid. Yikes.) but sometimes word just fail me.

0points

Sheena Morrison 2 years ago

My sister couldn't remember Benedict Cumberbatch's name. He is forever now known as Jason Cummerbund.

19points

Marta Gaj 2 years ago

still better than „this Cucumber guy” as my MIL call poor Benedict :p

9points

Emmett O'Brian 2 years ago

Flumpydump Bandersnatch is my favorite.

2points

Krystal Keener 2 years ago

My favorite mess up on this name is "benadryl cabbagepatch"

1point

Joshua Russell 1 year ago

Bentobox Crumblesnacks

0points

MarioRossi 2 years ago

To be honest, Benedict himself said that his surname "[...] sounds like a fart in a bath".

0points

A James 2 years ago

19points

Katherine Boag 2 years ago

On a dark desert highway

7points

DuchessDegu 2 years ago

My mum is a specialist on alternative names! Beach deodorant (sun cream), timothy (thermometer), button stick (any remote), tree fox (squirrel)

11points

CairaRose79 2 years ago

9points

Rebecca Stormcrowe 2 years ago

I called it a towel pantry. What I wanted was the linen closet

8points

Seanette Blaylock 2 years ago

Yours works quite well to describe it, I think.

2points

mama loves pugs 2 years ago

This is so frustrating. I can't access half of these articles because they won't open up. I've cleared my cache. What else can I do apart from deleting the app?

8points

Vicky Zar 2 years ago

3points

Andrea Purzycki 2 years ago

I love Sour Patch Kids. I couldn't remember the name once and called them Spicy Children instead. Now I always call them Spicy Children. I think that I am hilarious. My husband does not.

7points

Christine 2 years ago

Your husband is grossly misinformed. I like that so much I just might use it in the future! (If I can remember to remember, that is... and that's a *big* if)

1point

Peppermallow 2 years ago

i still get harassed for ‘stem things’ when i blanked on the word flower in my youth

6points

Chenga Animates 2 years ago

reminds me of the time I forgot the word for router and called it a "reactor," "receptor," and "realtor" before finally giving up and asking for the word for "the thing that produces wi-fi"

6points

Lawrencium 2 years ago

My son used to refer to his muscles as "my meat."

6points

Seanette Blaylock 2 years ago

He wasn't wrong. :)

2points

River Hambleton 2 years ago

I once called an ambulance a “Hurt People Bus” and later that day I called a rocket an astronaut tube

5points

Tamra Stiffler 2 years ago (edited)

Peckers. My mom had the unfortunate habit of calling bird's beaks, peckers. Usually in public. "Look at that bird's p****r!"

5points

Upstaged75 2 years ago

4points

Zero 2 years ago

4points

Alicia M 2 years ago

My (very young) son was walking on fallen autumn leaves and called them "tree trash." 🤣

3points

Mary Jeffries 2 years ago

I like ice bear for polar bear.

3points

MelonCloud 2 years ago

That is what a polar bear is called in my native language!

0points

Vladimir I 2 years ago

For some reason all this reminded me of kennings in old nordic poetry. Some those names were quite poetic.

3points

Zero 2 years ago

"Orange pencil that you eat" = carrot.

3points

GaeFrog 2 years ago

I couldn't think of the word hot so i called my fajita temperature spicy the other day..

3points

olx 2 years ago

i always say temperature spicy dnjbdjdbdjdbd

1point

Amy Walgren 2 years ago

My daughter was in the theatre program, which is not me at all. I couldn’t think of the word intermission so I called it halftime.

2points

Axolotl King 2 years ago

I once couldn't remember Pirate so I said "Sea Scoundrel, Steal Your Gold"

2points

Amy Stoesser 2 years ago

One of my students referred to geese as water turkeys.

2points

ZombieGirl 2 years ago

2points

Ross Warren 2 years ago

My daughter used to call vanilla pudding "ice cream jelly" when she was younger.

2points

IguanaCircusGirl2000 2 years ago

2points

Allie Rocheleau 2 years ago

My husband once forgot the word "supreme" for pizza and called it "ultimate." I like it so much better.

2points

Zlata Krabs 2 years ago

Forgot the word for miscarriage and called it 'failed children'

2points

sanityisnotproven 2 years ago

Sister calls bagels dead donuts

2points

Lsai Aeon 2 years ago

2points

Huddo's sister 2 years ago

Fibro fog is the worst! Especially if you are trying to sound competent at work lol.

2points

JB 2 years ago

2points

Izzy Curer 2 years ago

2points

Eburi - chan 2 years ago

omg i couldn't stop laughing

1point

Stephanie Paich 2 years ago

I once heard a comedian say that an alligator is basically just a floor dinosaur and now I can't call them anything else.

1point

Fricsmom 2 years ago

I use the term ‘ooo ooo juice’ for windshield washer fluid because my first car made an ‘ooo ooo’ sound whenever it was used.

1point

Will Cable 2 years ago

Best one I've heard is a pizza cutter being called "Infinity knife"

1point

Nikki Bastian 2 years ago

1point

Mam cymraeg 2 years ago

1point

IlovemydogShilo 2 years ago

1point

Abigail Dayan 2 years ago

Yesterday I didn't know how to say a broom in German so I said "witches car'

1point

meow point1 2 years ago

Once, I forgot what a beaker was called, so I called it a "science cup".

1point

Kind Pegasus 95 2 years ago

Once I was stoned and I couldn’t remember what My Little Pony was called, so I called it Fabulous Horse show lmao 😂

1point

Procrastinating Panda 2 years ago

Best one I ever hear was calling the Mysterious Benedict Society the Benedict Cumberbatch Society.

1point

WoodenLion 2 years ago

"turdays" = cherries. been like that since my 44 year old daughter called them when she was little. [ didn't know what she wanted for a few days ]

1point

Robert T 2 years ago

When I was little, I used to refer to "sheep and lambs" as "sheep and pieces". LOL

1point

James016 2 years ago (edited)

Some from my child: Sieve - Food Net, Cable Car - Lift Carriage, Barn - Harvest House

1point

Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago

1point

Belladonna.dreams 1 year ago

I call everything thingy and Whatchya ma call it because my brain always fails vocab when i need it most

0points

Lisa Shaw 1 year ago

Read one once, a waitress serving a german tourist forgot to give him cutlery and he didn't know/couldn't remember the word in english, so he asked for food weapons.

0points

GadgetGirl 2 years ago

My 23 year old recently: "Oh, I forgot to put my pillow sheet in the wash!" Pillowcase. And also, "I'd like to find clothes with the right length leg sleeves." Pants and Pant Legs.

0points

Krystal Keener 2 years ago

0points

Samia Guled 2 years ago

0points

SkekVi 2 years ago

Aphasia is honestly my #1 favourite source of comedy. We used to call it Noun Disease in my family, and then later after I moved out I learned the word for it.

0points

Liz-ard 2 years ago

0points

Elizabeth Butler 2 years ago

0points

Amanda Penton 2 years ago

0points

That nerd Zoe ️‍🇺🇦️‍ 2 years ago

One time I forgot what a paintball gun was called, so I called it a boba paint gun ;-;

0points

OLIVI YAY (she/her)‍ 2 years ago

0points

Jesse 2 years ago

0points

Rhian Williams 2 years ago

The first time my oldest daughter saw a magpie she ran after it shouting "Funny Penguin!"

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Kara Born 2 years ago

Can't quit remember why he said it, but my brother started to call erasers (the sort not attached to pencils) Larry. I started doing it too, and then a few others when they needed to use one of mine.

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Unnamed Hooman 2 years ago

I tried to find the word contortionist once, and I said “extortionist but stretchy”

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Brenda 2 years ago

Read a few on other sites. Fruit Loops = pride cheerios Hangers = hooked Cows = moo moos Cemetery = dead person garden

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Mry Cstl 2 years ago

To my mother. Every cereal was. Corn flakes. 😅

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Mry Cstl 2 years ago

My partner calls q-tips nose pickers. And tweezers are ear pickers.

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Selina Lawrence 2 years ago

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Jai Stewart 2 years ago

Playing snap with my young son, and I couldn't remember the word for snap- so my brain made me shout woof. Their was a dog on the cards on my defence 😂

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memyselfandI 2 years ago

When I was a kid, I called York peppermint patties Yonks because the cursive r looked like an n, so they’re officially Yonks now.

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Sandy D 2 years ago

Can't get this to load up?

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Emmett O'Brian 2 years ago

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Barbara Kayton 2 years ago

I am laughing so hard!

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lapis lazuli 2 years ago

some of these got to be fake

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RandomFrog 2 years ago

I would like to add my own: Wedding-marriage ceremony and Rodeo- horse party

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Monica Houghton 2 years ago

My mom - hashbrowns (#) and waterbagels (rutabaga).

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T. D. Bostick 2 years ago

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Rose the Cook 2 years ago

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

So guilty of this! I get stuck in my native English and use wjhatever words work, even if from another language, LOL.

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Gerdien 2 years ago

Why oh why doesn't this article open on my Android phone while it does open on an iphone?

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Rachel Hall 2 years ago

I'm in android, maybe try clearing your cache?

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