Those words that look similar but mean different things

[Project Monkey]

I remember a few years ago half of Portsmouth confused 'paediatrician' with 'paedophile' and all but lynched a female doctor.

When a journalist explained to one of the mob that paediatrician means children’s doctor, the bloke replied: "yeah, but she's still a pedo".

[Paddy]

Clematis and clitoris

Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

Clém – atis and Clít- toris (clídoris)

I love going to the desks of elderly master gardeners ready to answer your questions at garden centers during the growing season. I like to ask them, “How do you pronounce c, l, e, m, a, t, i, s?” If they pronounce it the non Greek way, I then ask them, “How do you pronounce c, l, i, t, o, r, i, s?” I am usually sent packing

[VectraMan]

Isn't Inveigh that swedish guitarist?

[tractor]

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I remember a few years ago half of Portsmouth confused 'paediatrician' with 'paedophile' and all but lynched a female doctor.

When a journalist explained to one of the mob that paediatrician means children’s doctor, the bloke replied: "yeah, but she's still a pedo".

Urban Myth with some truth in the roots but it was St Brides, not Portsmouth or Bristol as widely exaggerated on Mumsnet etc....

[Scruff]

Isn't Inveigh that swedish guitarist?

J Malmsteen?

B Springsteen...