re: Have you ever used the wrong word?

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Thought dirt daubers were dirt divers till a couple of years ago

Yes it did not happen today. I was just reminded of it today.

I mispronounced the name of a woman named Gina.

I might have accidentally mispronounced the name the first time. But afterwords, I purposedly mispronounced it in order to annoy her.

I never understood why people complain about violins in the street.

Asked my female Barber for a little trim. Guy in the other chair nearly died laughing

On an English quiz my freshman year of high school we had to identify whether a sentence was written in the active or passive voice. I couldn't remember the word "passive." My brain just drew a blank, so I wrote "passionate." I knew it wasn't exactly the right term/word, but what the hell. I knew it started with a "p-a-s-s-...something-or-other."

Our English teacher, Mrs. Riley, had tears rolling down her face when she was grading it and forty-four years later I still get red-faced when I think about it.

One of my kids had never seen a midget. asked me what was going on and I referred to them as a gnome. In my head I knew midget was not the PC term and just blurted out gnome. My wife quickly reminded me that it was dwarf. I just forgot. It's not a word I use often.

Water spigot was water spicket for me until 2 or 3 years ago.