Have you ever said the wrong WORD?

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I do that all the time. I was thinking of Echinacea (it was in some tea) and it came out euthanasia. My friends got a good laugh out of it. I think I was quiet the rest of the night. We were taping the practice for a show, and my friend put the clip on Facebook. It took some time, but I can laugh at it now.

If I’m thinking of 2 different words, they will mesh together. Like stomach and belly will be stelly. Was thinking of “don’t” and “stop” when I was rough housing with my son, and it came out “dop”. Now it is a running gag with us!

I don't know if I say the wrong words as much as I can't find the correct word I want to use in the moment. I feel like I am mentally shuffling through an old filing system rejecting words as I go until I come upon the correct one. For some reason, if I don't find the right word I become very circuitous as I end describing what I mean and that can be exasperating.

As a kid in emotional situations I would say the wrong thing around authority figures at times without realizing it until someone said something afterwards. Now, if I get flustered sometimes I will spit too much information. It is like my internal editing system is out of whack at times.

I said hello Japanese to my Special Ed teacher who was Japanese one morning. She told me to never way that again.

I constantly use the wrong word....been like that since I was a kid. I usually joke about it now, if someone catches it. if not, the person I was speaking with nor I noticed the mistake. Or else they were just being polite. When I was in middle school, I got scolded for saying the wrong word by my teacher. I guess she thought I was being funny. It was just a slip of the tongue, literally.

I can certainly relate, especially the part about not being able to find the right word.
The 2 most recent examples were:
"I was listening to this... uh..., the thing where people go up on stage and talk... SPEECH. thats the word.." my friend got a good laugh outta that one
and
"what's the, uh, you know 5312.."
"address?"
"yea, address.."

I forget words all the time and sometimes I decide not to talk to someone just because I can't figure out what word it is I'm looking for. In some conversations however I might forget a word like "fishing rod" and my brain works on overdrive to figure out the word and comes up with "fish stick". Those times people think I made it up for laughs, be that as it may. More than often I forget something else could be "watermelon" and I can't get any good response from my brain so I say the next fruit that comes into mind lets say "blueberry". It might not even be a fruit..it could be anything. Or I start to say a word and when I have said a bit of it I change my mind and start to say another and then I realize it to be another wrong one so I continue down that path and it sounds as though I stutter, which I'm not. I'm just looking for the right word.

I do it so often and so well that I have now embraced it and do it on purpose for comic effect. It's important to remember the correct word at the correct time as people who don't know me might wonder how I am able to cook a chicken breast on a foreskin (My name for a George Foreman grill).

It's impossible NOT to use the wrong word once in awhile. It's too easy to do. No biggie.

Here's another one from this morning:
I wanted to say the word "W" ; I was looking at my glass of water, and the word came out as a combination: "wadayou". For some reason no one understood what I was talking about? :)

This is more often mental than verbal for me. For instance, my shoulder will be hurting, but in my head I think "Dang, why is my wrist hurting like this?"

Frequently. I often substitute words with similar sonic or semantic content. My brain's word retrieval software is buggy.

here's the latest one... I wanted to say hard boiled egg; the phrase cement ego came out instead.

When I was younger I would get holidays mixed up - entering someone's house I would say "Merry Christmas" for Easter, "Happy thanksgiving" for 4th of July,e tc.; I began to remind myself of which one it was before I entered and it went away but it's one of those weird quirks of mine that I wondered abouta t times.

I do it fairly often otherwise, but that's the biggest one I can remember doing consistently. I'm guessing it's becasue the brain has a series of things in a group and mine just happened to pull out one it felt similar to; and it was more likely a nearer one than one we hadn't had for a year.

Although, NTs do this too at times, but not to that degree I described. I think it's stress related or age relted there (like with my parents a few times)

Seriously? Che was a murderous Communist.

He is right about the use of che: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_%28Spanish%29
A form of colloquial slang used in a vocative sense as "friend", and thus loosely corresponds to expressions such as "mate", "pal", "man", "bro", or "dude"; as used by various English speakers. As a result, it may be used both before or after a phrase: "Man, this is some good beer", or "Let's go get a beer, bro." It can be added to an explicit vocative to call the attention, playing the role of "Hey", for instance: "Che, Pedro, ¡mirá!", "Hey, Pedro, look!". Che is also utilized as a casual speech filler or punctuation to ascertain comprehension, continued interest, or agreement. Thus che can additionally function much like the English words "so", "right", or the common Canadian phrase "eh".

However its mostly used in Argentina and Uruguay and not in Mexico

One time I couldn't think of the word for a toilet cleaning pumice stone thing....um...apparently I still can't...so I called it a toilet rock. Often. My daughter does it too so we just laugh at each other.