As a kid, I had a small dictionary, so I checked whether “gullible” was in it in order to mess with my little sister. It wasn’t there, but I still got in trouble when my mom overheard me telling my sister, “Did you know gullible is not in this dictionary?”

I was miffed because I was telling the truth.

Jam is made with pureed fruit, while jelly is made from fruit juice. Colloquially, though, people use the terms interchangeably constantly.

I always hated the advice to make an L with your hands to see which one was Left. No one ever specified whether you’re supposed to have your palms facing you or facing away, so it’s ambiguous.

When I was a kid, I would picture a dining place setting because I knew the fork was on the left.

That article you linked was a really interesting read. Thanks!

You’re thinking of imaginary numbers. Irrational numbers are real numbers that have an infinite number of decimal places and don’t repeat.

“Thong” can mean a type of sandal, also known as flip-flops, but it’s also the name of a type of underwear or swimsuit bottom that’s basically a string in the back.

I grew up calling flip flops “thongs”, but as I got older, people were almost exclusively using that term for the underwear, so I switched terms to avoid confusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thong