Has someone ever told you that you used a wrong word? Well, you're not alone. Many people confuse terms without even knowing it. You might think that it's usually the English language learners who get the names of concepts or objects all mixed up, but it's not unusual for native speakers to get tangled up in misconceptions too.
The truth is, some terms seem so synonymous that people don't even bother to look them up. So, if you ever find yourself in an argument whether muffins have icing or whether tofu and panner are the same thing, it might mean that you need to do some research. But no worries. This time we've got you covered. Inspired by a Scoop Whoop post we dug around and collected some of the most confusing words to explain the differences between them.
Check out if you've made any of these mistakes and let us know in the comments.
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When you look at them with the mouths closed, the Croc will have its teeth visible. The Alligator won't.
It is easier to remember that alligators have C-shaped snouts and crocodiles have A-shaped snouts.
Why don't they switch them around so the alligator can have an A-shaped snout?
It should be the other way around the alligators snout is shaped like a "C" and the crocodiles snout is shaped like an "A"
Another list that would be interesting would be things people presume must have differences they just don't know about... but don't. Examples: Caribou/Reindeer, Moose/Elk, Ferret/Polecat.
Wow that's rather interesting. I'll take note of this for the future.
Load More Replies...In The Netherlands, many people say "England" while we actually mean the UK (just like many people say "Holland" while they actually mean The Netherlands by the way). A historical thing I guess.
Sanne H, I guess that's the practice everywhere, just calling the whole bunch of sub-areas "England"....
Load More Replies...no, it won't. Great Britain is an island, the largest island in the British Isles. By definition it includes most of Scotland, regardless as to whether we become an independent nation or not.
Load More Replies...The U.K./GB is weird isn’t it. We’re effectively countries inside another country!
The term British Isles is controversial in Ireland, where there are objections to its usage due to the association of the word British with Ireland. The Government of Ireland does not recognise or use the term and its embassy in London discourages its use. As a result, Britain and Ireland is used as an alternative description and Atlantic Archipelago has had limited use among a minority in academia, while British Isles is still commonly employed.
Load More Replies...Italians do another mistake: they talk about England meaning the United Kingdom. -_-
Jetzergirl - That is acommon mistake nearly everywhere. For example here in Finland many people talk about 'England' when they mean the whole UK.
Load More Replies...Actually no. Channel Islands are part of British Isles only. We are Crown Dependencies!
Load More Replies...or as we were taught, poisonous: hurts if you bite it, venomous: hurts if it bites you.
I was taught: if it bites you and you die , it’s venomous . If you bite it and you die, it’s poisonous. If you touch it and you die, it’s toxic
Load More Replies...The one I hate is flammable & inflammable meaning the same thing. As a kid, it really didn't make sense.
Mine is nausea & nauseous, but I only correct people who I know well & have a good sense of humor. I tell them you have nausea if you feel sick but you are nauseous when you make other people sick.
Load More Replies...Actually, the difference I got is venom is defined as a genetically modified saliva. Poisons (like arsenic, oxygen, alcohol, nicotine, basically everything, just depends on the dosage) aren't saliva. Though, that dictionary entry does ignore venom administered through other means.
In the Norwegian language we use the word gift (poison) or giftig (poisonous) also, the word gift means married. 🤪
Although emoticons will magically change into emojis when typing text messages, emails etc.
Actually alpacas are pretty shy. Llamas are no-nonsense a******s. True camels, you know. Don't google camel bite wound. They are nasty. They bite you with their mostly blunt teeth, and they move their jaws in opposing directions to each other ripping the flesh open even more. It is nasty.
Load More Replies...That’s not the only distinction hares have larger ears, rabbits have smaller ears, and when born rabbits eyes are closed, and they are fur less, while hares are born fully developed with eyes open and hair all over their bodies.
'cause they have to go from birth to 25 mph in 8 seconds or less.
Load More Replies...Doesn't matter, as Hasenpfeffer is what you make from all the parts not really good for an actual roast. So, bits and pieces that nevertheless should not go to waste, so you use them for Hasenpfeffer.
Load More Replies...Also, Hares are waaaaay bigger than rabbits, they are at least 3 times longer than a rabbit (when you hunt one , you can hold their feet by your shoulder and their head could touch the ground) , have more muscular and tonificanted limbs as they are meant to run and also they look way scarier in person , less fluf + bigger eyes + really scary eyes that can see thru your soul = bunny from hell.
In my language (Swedish) both have the same name but with "land" and "water" at the beginning of the word, like "waterturtle" and "landturtle".
It drives me insane when people get this wrong. I 100% blame the Ninja Turtles!
TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) are in fact Turtles! First episode, small boy walks with fish bowl full of water with 4 turtles and it falls down and broke ... little turtles goes into canal. Mutagen changes their body construction and abilities, half turtles half human Hamato Yoshi aka Master Splinter ;-)
No distinction in my language. I learned the english difference with a short from Alice in Wonderland. They had a turtle under the water and they called him tortoise. Alice was confused, cause it is wrong, and they explaind they call him tortoise, because he "tought us" (he was the teacher). So, solved for me. I remember the short and there it goes "tortoise is wrong if it's in the water"
So actualy, it should be "Teenage Mutant Ninja Tortoises" ?! Sexy ... isn't it?
This is a misnomer. This isn't a hard and fast rule. Depends where you are. It seems to be just a North American thing where tortoises aren't considered a type of turtle. There is no "real" answer, it's like the thing with veggies and fruits (tomatoes and cucumbers etc), it all depends on who you ask because different sciences categorize them differently.
Americans do not seem to know this and insist the tortoise is a turtle
North America's only marsupial. Opossums do not transmit rabies (wrong body temperature), and eat ticks that spread diseases. Opossums are one of my favorite local creatures.
Load More Replies...Wrong again, random BoredPanda article: "The opossum is also commonly known as a possum, particularly in the Southern United States and Midwest. Following the arrival of Europeans in Australia, the term 'possum' was borrowed to describe distantly related Australian marsupials of the suborder Phalangeriformes" (from Wikipedia).
CAREFUL: "Opossum" is pronounced, "possum." They are distinct creatures, but the spelling difference may be due more to one region retaining an older spelling than a recognition that they are distinct creatures.
Uh, down here in the Southern US, we got us some possums...that look lots like that critter on my right...
if anyone remembers the movie "Willow" (dating myself, decades old fantasy movie with Val Kilmer as Mad Martigin), the Australian possum is the very cute, darling animal the good witch had been transformed into for all those years. My sister & I could never figure out what type of animal it was! until I moved to New Zealand & saw them for the first time ;)
Actually, Australia is home to almost 20 different varieties of possum. They all vary in size and weight, from the teeny tiny pygmy possums to the hefty common brushtail possums. Their tails are similarly varied in appearance, some being scaly, some being bushy, some are bald. Their tails are prehensile and are used for grasping branches and other objects whilst climbing and plan an important role in balancing when in high places.
The fur of Aust. possums (which are a very serious pest in NZ) is mixed with wool to make the softest, warmest, very expensive garments.
had been told 'shrimp' is used more in American English, while 'prawn' is favoured in British English
This is not correct. The terms shrimp and prawn are common names, not scientific names. Prawn is generally used for any large variety of edible decapods, shrimp for the smaller varieties.
I didn't know that they were different..i thought it was American English and British English.
So you telling me that cement is concrete, and concrete is not cement.
Right. Cement is part of what makes up concrete. Concrete is made out of cement mixed with other ingredients. — This is beginning to sound like a cooking class.
Load More Replies...so, can I still say I'm going to make you a pair of "cement shoes"? asking for a friend......
You can say whatever you want, but it is hard to make shoes out of powder. — To be correct you’re should say,”... a pair of concrete shoes”, but that looses the comedic element using cement. I cannot find her first is that in comedy.
Load More Replies...I used to help my Dad in his building business as a kid. I loved working the cement mixer!
I agree, I use "jelly" to describe wobbly the dessert made from gelatine and "jam" to describe the preserve I make from blackberries, sugar, pectin and lemon juice.
Load More Replies...Fun fact: the reason why the US prefers jelly and the UK prefers jam is thought to be down to food shortages during and after WWII. When there was a real shortage of fruit unscrupulous people would sell stuff with little to no fruit in. Jam, with the seeds and pulp in, instantly gave an honest indication of how much fruit the jar contained and so gained a popularity over jelly which has lasted all these years. We still traditionally make some types of fruit into jelly though, bramble jelly and redcurrant jelly are both standard. In the US, jelly is standard for all fruits.
It's technically a type of jam, but made with citrus fruit, peel and all.
Load More Replies...Jam is when the fruit is mashed. Preserves is what you’re showing here.
I didn't know anyone confused crows with ravens... except for the guys who make the Game of Thrones TV show
You would use a raven to send a message from King's Landing to the crows on the wall.....
The ravens at the Tower of London are the size of medium sized dogs.
Crows also flock together in larger numbers. If you only see one, it's probably a raven.
crow, fan shaped tail, raven, diamond shaped tail (beautiful to see)
This post is wrong. I'm a pharmacist. Pill is the general term. A capsule or tablet are a type of pill.
As a nurse, I can tell you that this is wrong. Both are pills. The yellow ones are capsules, the white ones are tablets. Also, a tablet in the shape of a capsule is a caplet.
This is not accurate at all... At least in the US, "pill" is a generic, nonspecific term for either of these orally administered forms of medication. When the medication is contained in a soft shell that dissolves in the GI tract, it is capsule; when the medication is compressed into a solid pellet, it is a tablet. "Caplet" is not actually a medical or pharmaceutical term, it is just a portmanteau of capsule and tablet developed for marketing purposes.
Not buying into this one. A capsule is a capsule. A tablet is a tablet. Pretty sure either one can be considered a pill...at least in my mental dictionary.
They're both pills. Capsules have medication in gelatin; tablets and caplets are compressed chemicals.
Disagree, a pill or a tablet are similar in composition, a capsule remains a capsule, it is not a pill.
Yes, I think of a capsule as something held inside a container, like the space capsule.
Load More Replies...In Sri Lanka, we use "Capsules" for pills and "Pills" / "Tablets" for tablets
sea lions have front drive, seals have rear drive. just look at their flippers.
totally read earholes as arseholes wondered why they would have a flap on their arseholes for a second
All pinipeds are covered in fur. Sea lion fur is just shorter, not "sparser".
Again: be cautious. Sea lions are any of several species of "eared seals," which are distinguished from "true seals," but several types of "seals," including "fur seals" belong in the same family as sea lions, and have ears and short claws.
Tom is correct. I had only seen documentaries where leopard seals had attracted penguins. Not doing the research is inexcusable; other seals kill penguins. Also, quitting research after I found out some seals rape penguins is perfectly acceptable.
The major difference isn't the fur so much ("fur seals" are actually sea lions) but the ears, and also that the sea lion can rotate its back flippers to 'walk' while the seal cannot, and has to 'crawl' on its belly.
A trite but fairly reliable definition is that climate is weather averaged over more than thirty years. There are statistical reasons for this definition, for the interested and motivated student.
Still get the weather forecast for a place instead of its climate when searching Google. :/
As I was taught in Geography 211 "Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get".
Yes. The photos are not a good comparison of size.
Load More Replies...The Kreef we get are Rock Lobsters... It is just incorrectly called "crayfish" at times.
Load More Replies...crayfish are also known as crawdads or mud-bugs in Louisiana, USA. and are supposedly great tasting, albeit messy to eat.
Helan går sjung hoppfalleri fallerallala, helan går sjung hoppfallerallala. Och den som inte helan tar han heller inte halvan får. Helan går! Sjung hoppfallerallalej!
Load More Replies...Growing up in Texas, we called Crayfish "Crawdads", but we pronounced it "Craw-deads". Don't know why. LOL
Cause Texas! You get crawdads from the bayou, and crawfish from the store. Texas born boy here. I'd eat a crawfish, but not a crawdad.
Load More Replies...In NZ crayfish are marine and have no pincers, and freshwater crayfish are koura, and have pincers.
Sphinx are Canadian! Who would've thought a naked cat could come from such a cold climate
'A winged monster of Thebes, having a woman's head and lion's body.'
*shows a picture of the Great Sphinx of Giza, an Egyptian Sphinx which is wingless and has a man's head/face*
The Egyptian Sphinx ≠ a Grecian sphinx. sphinxgree...25b549.jpg
But you wanna tell me that the cat's name WAS NOT inspired by the Egyptian Sphinx? That's what I have been thinking!
Technically Originally from the Roncesvalle neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada to be exact.
OMG margarine is basically one chemical away from plastic. Leave it outside and NOTHING will touch it. We call it ‘low fat spread’ in U.K. and anyone with any sense wouldnt touch it. Read ingredients on both. Then only buy butter.
i had a guy press this issue in the grocery line. i know the difference but we just always call both butter. i asked my daughter to go grab some butter and said the brand so she knew what i meant was margerine. the stranger behind me felt the need to argue this with me. i told him i didn't care because she knew what i meant. he persisted. finally he takes his brick of butter out of his bag and tells me that one is made with milk and the other is made with oil. i pointed to label on his brick and told him his butter only had 12% milk and the rest was oil. he didn't want to talk to me anymore.
"All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once." - Terry Pratchett
My dad use to say similar all the time "everything is edible, some things only once"
Load More Replies...This is getting a bit ridiculous. The distinction between mushrooms and toadstools is another nonscientific one, and there are poisonous muchrooms and nonpoisonous toadstools. I've eaten "toadstools". I'm not going to tell anyone which is which though, because the difference can be so difficult to discern for an untrained and inexperienced person that it can be lethal. This particular arbitrary definition is so dangerous as to be irresponsible. I hope that everyone reading this definition absolutely DOES NOT rely on it to distinguish between 'mushrooms' and 'toadstools'.
Good grief. Not all mushrooms are edible. These generalizations are, generally, incorrect.
NO NO NO!!!! NOT all mushrooms are edible! If someone calls something a 'mushroom,' even if they are knowledgable, that does not mean it is edible. It might still be deadly!! Do NOT listen to this! Get foraging advice from an expert or a natural history guide, not from a random internet article!
Not all mushrooms are edible. There are many poisonous varieties. Also toadstool is a term used for commonly known inedible or poisonous mushrooms.
Hardly surprising that a lot of these generalisations with the photos are Fake News. "It is commonly believed that mushrooms are edible and that toadstools are poisonous; in reality, however, no such distinction should be made. The plants of the Hymenomycetes are characterized in general in that they arise from a mass of colorless threads, known as "mycelium" or "spawn," produced in the ground, bark of trees, etc."
Are the porpoises rapists and killer too, or is it just the dolphins ? (since I watched a documentary explaining that dolphins could kill for fun, including killing their babies so the mother would be "available" faster, and that they had no problem to try to mate with every single species, I just see them with another eye now :D)
Porpoises are not river dolphins. All of the river dolphin species belong to the dolphin family. There are no varieties of river porpoise.
Load More Replies...There is actually a whale called the Beluga Whale. They are similar to porpoises. Meaning people could confuse porpoises as these whales. I never heard of Porpoises.
This does not really belong here, does it? A champagne is still a sparkling wine, so technically it is a specialisation, not two thing that are confused but essentially are different.
Unfortunately, it's quite a common occurrence for people to use 'champagne' when talking about sparkling wine (it's actually illegal to label any sparkling wine 'champagne'!). So yes, while all champagne is sparkling wine, not all sparkling wine is champagne.
Load More Replies...I already learned this from the educational film "Wayne's World".
Bubbly not from Champagne but made the same way may also be labelled as la Méthode Champenoise.
There are rubbish cheap Champagnes just as there are expensive decent Cavas.
Huh. I was told that sometimes the winemakers screw up during the wine making process so they use that messed up wine to make into sparkling wine. Idk who told me this but I guess it's wrong lol
Their expression say that they are disappointed in you that you didn't know this.
I didn't even know people could confuse these two breeds... They're actually not that similar to mix up
I love how they didn't mention this one distinctive feature. As if we would go 'oh that snout definitely looks shorter'
Load More Replies...They should've used a picture of a yellow lab though instead of a black one.
Also a Yellow Labrador is not a Golden Lab no such thing- This is my pet peeve! I have two- okay just one Yellow Lab now our boy has gone to haven. But it just annoys me when people say OH you have a golden lab how lovely.. NO she is a Yellow Lab. UGH
If they mate, will they produce a Golden Labrador or a Labratriever?
Excuse me? What crazy nation is having Muffins as a main?
Load More Replies...Yes- muffin is a quickbread (no yeast), cupcake is made from cake batter
Load More Replies...Muffins are what people eat when they want to pretend they are eating healthy so they can't snarf down cupcakes with sprinkles ( to you Brits, that's thousands and thousands or something like that?)
Hundreds and thousands. But we actually just call them sprinkles.
Load More Replies...Do not tell this to all this alternative right movements who claim that there are certain "people" native to places, and that their intermingling with other "races" will weaken the national identity. We may form nations and e may come from different ethnicies, but we are all humans!
I think something along the lines of "the legal status of being a citizen of a particular country" would have been a better way of phrasing it.
Load More Replies...In Europe we’re well clued up on this. check our application forms for anything and see the hundreds of options. I am white (ethnicity) British (nationality)
State and nation. There is a Zulu nation, but no Zulu country. I was taught nation means langue is the same. State are lines on paper. Race is irrelevant in all senses of all those words. There is only one race. Race to me equals species.
up voting this because some people need to grow their minds
Like the Britons, the Basques, the Polynesians, The Antilleans and the Kanaks in France. Like the Zulus, the Xhosas, the Basothos, the Africaners (Dutch) in South African. The Arabs and the Berbers in Morocco. Each Ethnic group has its own langage/dialect, traditions, traditional outfits, music...
"I never know... What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?" "Stalagmite has an 'm' in it"
how childish it might be...i remember by thinking.. stalactite has tit in it... tits hang down..
Load More Replies...I always remember this because a stalactite holds “tight” to the ceiling.
That's similar to how I learned it in school. The teacher used the saying "Stalactites hold on tight, and Stalagmites might reach the ceiling some day"
Load More Replies...Tites hang down, like tits. Mites stand up, like mountains.
This is the best way to remember. All the rest are to complicated... well dowe KATHIE
Load More Replies...Stalactite had letter C for ceiling, stalagmite has letter G for ground.
How do people not know the difference between a butterfly and a moth???
There are plenty of moths that are active in the daytime. I see them in the spring/summer while walking and I've photographed some very pretty and colorful ones out sunning themselves and flying around every time i or something else spooked them. They may be more active at night, but they're still plenty active in the daytime.
monarchs often fly around our garden at night, drawn by the house lights I suppose.
Load More Replies...im about to ruin butterflies for u all lol, they also feast on sh*t and corpses. just found that out last month. still love em tho as they are very beautiful
i have always been a huge insect nerd. those white butterflies (cabbage butterfly) is not a moth!
I don't understand why there's people that do not like moths. I like moths just as much as butterflies.
Probably because a lot of moths are drab. But there are some gorgeous moths as well.
Load More Replies...Incorrect. Sphinx moths actively feed on nectar using a long coiled tongue and also pollinate flowers. Many moths are attracted to sweet baits like syrup (noctuid moths especially). The giant silk moths - Cecropia, Polyphemus, Promethea, Io, and Luna - have no mouth parts and live only a week or so after emerging.
Load More Replies...What do you call a Gorilla that has a Banana stuck in each ear ? Answer: Anything you like..... because he can't hear you
The only real difference is that guerrillas fight in small bands using unconventional methods while gorillas prefer to maintain standard military structures and tactics (citation needed).
The confusion is in the spelling and way too many people aren't going to take the time to learn the two words. (The should check to see if their browser supports a "Grammarly" add-on, get it and use it.)
One looks like an artichoke and one looks like it's wearing a giant cockroach..
Pangolins are becoming rare because of poaching for the sale of their scales.
Armadillos are colloquially known in the Southern US as (o)Possums on a Half Shell. :D
Pangolins do NOT belong in the house, they will pee all over your carpet. I have to get a new carpet because of one of them.
I'm not sure about everyone else, but I'm pretty sure people know this. Right? Or is it just me?
didnt know the exact tonnage cut-off point between them - surely old sailing ships that crossed oceans were under 500 tons?
Load More Replies...That would seem to be a legal definition in some country (perhaps you will tell us which one). If you look up “boat” and “ship” in a dictionary such as Merriam-Webster, it merely says that a boat is a small vessel and a ship is a large vessel. It doesn’t give any specific size.
Then these differences they gave are not a "legal definition" as you call it since tonnes is a measure of weight, not size.
Load More Replies...Traditionally it had nothing to do with size. Anything that floats is a boat. If it has three or more masts and is rigged with square sails it is a ship ("ship-rigged"), otherwise it's some other kind of boat (sloop, schooner, brig, barque, etc.). These days, if it's large and operates on the ocean's surface, it's called a ship, otherwise it's called a boat, regardless of its size. There is no specific legal tonnage above which something is considered a ship.
Submarines are traditionally referred to as "boats", even though some modern examples are well over 5000 tonnes and can circumnavigate the oceans.
This is a fraught subject, especially given that small ships can be bigger than large boats, and ships can navigate fresh/enclosed water whilst boats can sail ocean/salt water. I have captain friends. We discussed this subject and they indicated that ships have distinct types of bow-to-stern keels, and boats do not. Mariners understand the differnce; most lubbers do not.
I did a Masters and a PhD in anurans. The distinction between 'frogs' and 'toads is arbitary. Not all dryish anurans are short-leggedish, or smoothish, or stringy-eggedish, and not all mucussy anurans are the obverse in one or more of those characteristics. The notion of frogs versus toads is simply a gradient of perceptions with no biological significance. And the teeth thing that another commernter claimed is a nonsense...
I like this answer - sounds like 'race' has no scientific basis.
Load More Replies...Toads and Frogs are both Amphibians. Frog eggs are found in a mass and toad eggs are in a chain shape
I thought frogs were amphibious whereas toads were primarily land dwellers.
Where do you get your info? Played with toads a lot as a kid and they hopped.
Load More Replies...Wasps can be pollinators - there are many species of orchids whose flower structures are predicated on exactly this fact. Look it up.
True, but wasps are still much more dangerous than bees. Bees will generally leave you alone if you leave them alone. Wasps will f*ck you up for looking at them funny. This is why nobody deliberately keeps wasp nests as a hobby. Well, that and wasps don't produce anything we want.
Load More Replies...Bees - cute fluffy things that try to avoid stinging you. Wasps - flaming angry ninjas that are always trying to sting you.
Only when you mess with their nests on a hot sunny day
Load More Replies...I'm sure wasps too, but people care less :-(
Load More Replies...bees: cute, furry, make honey. wasps: not cute, not furry, a******s.
Paneer is awesome. Especially when coated with a layer of spiced corn flour or spiced bread.
you just made me starving. i need to fry some up now.
Load More Replies...Yes, paneer is just a type/form of cheese from India. Not sure how/why anyone would confuse cheese with tofu... (except for the fact that they are generally the same shape/color, so really the only way you could confuse them is if you were looking at a picture...)
Load More Replies...I was going to ask, how is paneer different from cheese? but then I decided to look it up for myself, and guess what? Paneer/panir = "a type of curd cheese used in Indian, Iranian, and Afghan cooking." How can anybody mistake cheese for tofu?
"Side effects of Tofu include: - Extreme smugness; - Reflexive Inability to contain one's sense of self-righteousness; - Frequent bouts of delusion that one is saving the Earth; - Constant vocalisation that these foods are "just as good as any meat alternatives"; and - Few friends (if any).
aaaaand one is bean curd and one is a type of cheese, isn't it?...
This is also my first time to hear about paneer. I live in Japan, so I doubt paneer even exists here!
You must not be a fan of Indian food. It's a mild cheese common in Indian cuisine.
Load More Replies...I am not sure about this.. The one on the right is also eaten as a fruit in my natives.. It's more like a different variety of Banana..
The one in the right is a different species of banana! When it's green like in the picture, it needs to be cooked to be edible, but at some point, it does become yellow and can then been eaten as a fruit. Plantain looks a little bit like a regular banana, just it's harder to peel, even when yellow, you will need a knife. It needs to be cooked whether green or yellow.
They are both hard to peel when green, plantains are, when ripe are not that hard to peel and they can be also fried or eaten raw they are just a bit firmer than bananas (make sure they are ripe or they will leave a "scratchy" sensation in your mouth).
Load More Replies...Plantains are not "ripe" when they are green. When green (platanos verdes) they are fried as a vegetable and are similar to potatoes, when yellow, or "ripe" (platanos maduros) they are baked and are very sweet.
Plantain, aka banana-da-terra in Brazil, among other preparations, are chipped and fried around here. Gives an excellent snack.
Technically both fruits as both come from a flower. Vegetables are only the leaves, stems and roots of a plant.
Plantains also turn yellow when ripe! They're starchy and hard when green, but sweet and soft when ripe. When green, they can be eaten cooked or fried. When ripe, they can be eaten cooked, fried or baked.
ANOTHER WRONG ONE! Plantains are a variety of banana. The "desert banana" is just one variety (Cavendish).
in S.A the tangerines are called naartjies. pronounced 'nar-chies' . think it comes from the Afrikaans language.
"Origin : Late 18th century: Afrikaans word, from Tamil nārattai ‘citrus’. " In dutch we say mandarijn, that's longer :D
Load More Replies...I think this is quite clear distinction, they feel different (as in have they have different texture of peel), have different thickness of peel too, and quite often peel is easier to remove from tangerines. Think it would be better to explain difference between mandarin, tangerine and clementine. X_x
I saw a documentary where M&S have invested billions in making an easy peeler with the sweetness of a Mandarin. When they succeed it will apparently take the UK market by storm.
There are four basic classes of orange: "Common" or round oranges, like the one on the left, including the popular Valencia variety, generally used for juice extraction; navel oranges, less juicy but with a thinner peel, usually for eating; blood oranges with red flesh, favored for both juicing and eating; and "acidless" or mandarin oranges, small with a very thin peel, generally only used for eating. Tangerines, clementines and satsumas are all varieties of mandarin orange.
My mother always made marmalade using Seville oranges. They were considered the best for marmalade.
Load More Replies...Fun fact I'm Piemontese (a dialect from Northern Italy) the fruit orange is called "Portigal" like the nation. BTW even the color orange is called Portigal (seems legit) Nobody knows how all this started
Like other differences on this list, the distinctions are arbitrary and not consistent. There is not biological difference between kangaroos and wallabies, save size, and small kangaroos and be smaller than large wallabies. Some wallaby species are distinctly plain in colour. My bona fides? I'm a biologist, with three species of macropod that that come out to graze on my paddocks every night.
Again supported, and if you've ever seen a 6 foot tall male RED kangaroo, you wouldn't call him dull.......to his face.
Load More Replies...Wallaby: Small fluffy jumpy thing. Kangaroo: Massive bouncy beat you up thing
Kangaroo vs wallaby is almost arbitrary. The official, outdated zoological way to classify them is by the length of the foot. Feet over a certain size are kangaroos, under a certain size are wallabies, I can't remember exactly but basically wallabies have childish-sized feet and kangaroos have mannish-sized feet. This is still outdated and almost arbitrary, because some wallabies belong to the genus Macropus, to which most large kangaroos belong, so they should really be called kangaroos if not for their small size.
Rats are amazing, intelligent creatures and it's about time people stopped being scarred of them and start educating themselves about them. They deserve respect.
Domesticated rats are so affectionate and smart. A joy to hang out and cuddle with. However, I used to live on an island that was infested with rats and they were the stuff of nightmares.
Load More Replies...Also, why did they choose a wonderfully cute photo for the mouse, then give the rat no credit for being cute? Mice can be a pest, too!
I personally have 2 pet rats, and theyre a joy to be around. I LOVE RATS
I thought the main difference is in the tail: don't rats have naked tails?
Rats are smart, like little dogs. They are loyal, loving, and can perform tricks. They know their names and will love you until the end of the earth. Mice are stupid, end of story.
So if I drink coffee in a cup, does it turn into a mug? I think the above differentiation does not really make sense. Maybe if you said a mug is a bigger variation of a mug but it does not have a saucer?
Oops, wanted to say : * a cup is a bigger variation of a mug. When is bored panda going to allow us to edit our comments
Load More Replies...What you put in it does not define what it is. Cups are smaller and mugs are bigger (especially taller)
To blow someones brain; coffee-CUPS also exists :) If you have a nice dinner, and get coffee served afterwards, they don't bring you a mug, but a cup :)
Who doesn't know the difference between a mug and a cup? This one is stupid.
Both are cups. Mugs usually have handles are thicker and are larger than other cups and are intended for hot liquids, including tea if you want more tea than will fit into a traditional "teacup". "Cup" can also refer to any number of beverage containers of a variety of size, thickness and intended potable. There are: coffee cups, red plastic cups for soda and beer at picnics, paper cups for water at the water fountain, plastic thermos cups on top of your thermos of soup, sake cups, shot glasses, stemware, beer steins, measuring cups, etc.
I thought it's more of US/UK thing. UK calls it biscuits while US cookies.. no?
No we have biscuits and cookies here. Biscuits like Rich Teas and Digestives and stuff whereas cookies are soft
Load More Replies...actually in the US the left is a cracker and the right a cookie. a biscuit is a bread/roll type thing
I call BS! Biscuits are big and fluffy. Covered in honey or sausage gravy. These biscuits are crackers, and the cookies are cookies, yum. Hello from TEXAS! Bear in mind most of these are just linguistic differences. I'd never own a lorry, but I'd never be without a truck.
Right! It's biscuits and gravy no crackers and gravy.
Load More Replies...I still like cookies that are not soft. But that's just how the cookie crumbles. Ginger snaps as an example or Famous Amos chocolate chip ones.
In the US, at least the locations I've been in (New England and West Coast), "biscuit" is a savory-to-sweet fluffy, non-yeasty, bread roll. Typically made with baking powder or equivalent constituents. "cracker" is savory-to-sweet thin crunchy bread product. "Cookie" is either soft or crunchy, always sweet. I think the post is discussing the British distinction between "biscuit" and "cookie" only.
In Britain these are both biscuits. In most of the US, this shows crackers & cookies - no biscuits in sight.
In America, biscuits are like bread or rolls, made with baking powder instead of yeast. We don't use the term biscuit in general for any kind of cookie.
this must be british...biscuits in the US are a roll/bread type thing
Pretty useful post, makes you understand the difference between things that look the same. But i'm pretty sure everybody can see the difference between Gorilla and Guerilla .
Well these are really useful, especially since I don't speak english as my first language
Load More Replies...You should have included chocolate chips and potato chips. I got those mixed up when I tried to make cookies.
Chocolate chips go in cookies whereas potato chips go in biscuits.
Load More Replies...Most important(!) - Things That Most People Don’t Know Are Actually Different your - you'r
Wow! Some of them seem pretty obvious but other were real eye openers! Thanks.
Cupcake and Muffin have different batters. The icing has nothing to do with the difference.
Whether you're a native English speaker or not, I think a lot of these are actually helpful. Some are more what you'd call common knowledge, but I will admit that there are some that I've forgotten. Just my opinion!
Pretty useful post, makes you understand the difference between things that look the same. But i'm pretty sure everybody can see the difference between Gorilla and Guerilla .
Well these are really useful, especially since I don't speak english as my first language
Load More Replies...You should have included chocolate chips and potato chips. I got those mixed up when I tried to make cookies.
Chocolate chips go in cookies whereas potato chips go in biscuits.
Load More Replies...Most important(!) - Things That Most People Don’t Know Are Actually Different your - you'r
Wow! Some of them seem pretty obvious but other were real eye openers! Thanks.
Cupcake and Muffin have different batters. The icing has nothing to do with the difference.
Whether you're a native English speaker or not, I think a lot of these are actually helpful. Some are more what you'd call common knowledge, but I will admit that there are some that I've forgotten. Just my opinion!
