I like to think I’m a reasonably educated and intelligent person, but there are some things I just for the life of me cannot get right, at least not without concerted effort.
Two examples come immediately to mind:
Location of Ottawa: Snap reaction is that it’s way west of Toronto, like halfway to Winnipeg, somewhere up on the north shore of Lake Superior. I love maps; I know this is not true; yet my instinctive brain apparently really wants it to be true.
Journey/Foreigner: They might as well be one band to me. Just give me a tallboy of PBR and a karaoke mic and let me rip. (In reality, I’ve only ever done karaoke once, and it was Bon Jovi - but the general point stands.)
Horde/hoard. I do fairly well with the words people often confuse (eg, further/farther; discrete/discreet) but always need to stop and think about horde vs hoard. Something in the letter structure tells me horde should be a verb.
That beautiful Hetch Hetchy water! I miss it. Nashville tap water is shite.
I often get confused about the interstates here East and West, having lived for 25 years WEST OF I5 (which was the only place to live according to some people). I also can never remember which spoke is which (Harding Pike and Hillsboro Pike - they go the same general direction/place). Nashville is laid out like a wagon wheel, NOT in grids. And there are a couple of roads/Pikes with the same damned name but they are a good 10 miles apart. And then roads will change names just for the hell of it when crossing an intersection.
