Things that are not the same

glennmagusharvey

* kookaburra
* cuckoo bird

glennmagusharvey

* gazette
* gazelle

glennmagusharvey

* GDPR = European Union Genera Data Protection Regulation
* CDPR = CD Projekt Red, the developer of the Witcher series of videogames

glennmagusharvey

* XSEED = a video game localization group. A subdivision of the company Marvelous.
* eXceed = a series of Japanese bullet hell shmups. Localized/published for English-speaking audiences, but not by XSEED, rather, by Nyu-Media.

glennmagusharvey

* Metal Armor Dragonar
* Dragonar Academy

fourteenwings

*Nigerians
*Nigeriens

glennmagusharvey

* R2D2 (character in Star Wars)
* RDR2 (abbreviation for "Red Dead Redemption 2", a videogame title)

lrdgck

"rdr" still looks to me as what happens when you switch from Cartesian to polar

glennmagusharvey

r dr/dt = f'(theta) dtheta/dt

glennmagusharvey

* Dominica
* Dominican Republic

* Georgia
* Georgia

* Russia
* Prussia
* Byelorussia

* Niger
* Nigeria
* a racial slur

* Japanese
* Javanese

* Korea
* Chick Correa
* chikorita

* Washington
* Washington

* New York
* New York, New York

* Roman Empire
* Holy Roman Empire
* Eastern Roman Empire

* Miami University
* University of Miami

* wheat germ
* germs, which may germinate in (but do not originate from)
* Germany
* geranium
* germanium
* germane

* India
* Indiana
* Indonesia
* West Indies
* indie
* Indy
* Indy 500
* in the

* Indians
* Indians
* indium

* Cathy
* Cathay

fourteenwings

As a child I always confused Russia and Belarus.

Stormtroper

For the longest time I confused Switzerland (Suiza) with Sweden (Suecia), I kept forgetting which one was in the middle of Europe, which one had the white-cross-on-red flag, which one Alfred Nobel was from, etc.

Also:

*Guyana / Brittish Guayana
*Suriname / Dutch Guayana
*Guyane / French Guayana
*Guayana, the region

glennmagusharvey

There's also Guyana and Guinea.

As well as Austria and Australia.

And also Belize and Belgium (whose name in Cantonese sounds like "beh leh zhi".

fourteenwings

The Fix: New ABC legal show that fictionalizes an O.J.Simpson type of case.
The Fixer: Sub-Saharan African-region name of ABC legal show featuring a Washington fixer, more commonly known as Scandal. Renamed to avoid confusion with long running TV soap Scandal.

There are a lot of Japanese words for other countries that tend to confuse me since they sound like other words from said countries.

Which sort of brings me to:
The Hotchkisses: The royal family of Beacon Heights in The Perfectionists.
Hotchkiss: Japanese word for staplers.

glennmagusharvey

* Last Dimension (game developer studio name of DarkFalzX who made Ultionus and Mystik Belle)
* Lost Dimension (JRPG)

Stormtroper

So after that other post I realized this fits here:

* X-COM: UFO Defense, a video game.
* UFO: Enemy Unknown, the same but European.
* XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the same but 2012.

glennmagusharvey

* NSF
* .NSF
* NSFW
* NSW
* NSEW

glennmagusharvey

* World Break
* Blade Dance

fourteenwings

I think you mean:

Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance
Seiken Tsukai no World Break

* NSW

Do you mean Nintendo Switch or New South Wales or the one hundred million other things that this could stand for?

glennmagusharvey

...the Nintendo Switch is abbreviated NSW?

Well I guess that makes sense but I just call it "Switch".

Then again I don't use NGC or GCN but just use "GC", not to be confused with Guilty Crown, and I also don't use NDS but just use "DS".

glennmagusharvey

* Peach's Wedding
* Wedding Peach

glennmagusharvey

* Fortune Arterial
* Fortune Street

Stormtroper

Iberia

Liberia

lrdgck

Liberia - livery

(also livery - liver, I guess)

Caucasian Iberia - (uh...) Iberian Iberia

glennmagusharvey

* DDL (direct download)
* DLC (downloadable content)
* DDLC (Doki Doki Literature Club)

glennmagusharvey

* H. R. McMaster, United States Army officer and former National Security Advisor to Donald Trump (his initials are Herbert Raymond)
* Henry McMaster, current Governor of South Carolina (his middle name is Dargen, not anything starting with R)

glennmagusharvey

* Mai-HiME, a.k.a. Mai-Hime, Mai Hime, My-HiME, My Hime, etc., an anime series
* Mai Princess, a virtual idol group (?)
* Princess Mae, an instagram celebrity

Naas_Human

Also there's this thing.

glennmagusharvey

* real analysis
* reanalysis

* 7th Dragon
* 7th Saga

Stormtroper

* Memorization

* Memoization

glennmagusharvey

* Last Dimension
* Lost Dimension
* The Last Story
* The Last of Us
* Lost Sphear
* Lost Planet
* Lost Odyssey