All the time… especially when I try to speak my ‘second language’. People are very understanding or get so embarrassed for me they end the conversation and walk or switch to English. As a kid, I had a hard time with ‘Cinnamon’.
I spent so many years abroad, when I go see my family in the US, I have to repeat myself a lot at first…because I forget the English or ‘American’ words for things. I’m basically caught between two languages and don’t speak either of them very well any more.
Aluminium or Aluminum? (my spell checker is even saying the latter is the incorrect spelling. I’ll always go with Aluminium. But both are perfectly OK.
(from wiki…..The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element in 1990, but three years later recognized aluminum as an acceptable variant. Hence their periodic table includes both. IUPAC prefers the use of aluminium in its internal publications, although nearly as many IUPAC publications use the spelling aluminum.)