Just realized that "upside down" means "the up side is down", making it upside down

Shhh! Nobody tell them about "inside out."
- Don't tell them about insid-- dang! Too late
- Why isn’t it outside in?
  
  It could be to do with something called “ablaut reduplication”. Very basically English has a - kind of - untaught sound order that native speakers inherently apply to the language. Wikipedia will have an article to explain it better. Specifically the vowel order I-A-O. A great example is the phrase “Bish bash bosh” which is getting coverage recently. (One notable exception is “shit, shower, shave” but that is probably down to the chronology of the actions.)
  
  Kif! We have a conundrum!

How else would one interpret it?
- It's not really that I interpret it in another way, but I never really thought about the structure of the word 😅
  
  Go further. For example, people say 'gypped' without knowing it's a pejorative reference to the word 'Gypsy' which is itself a pejorative of the Romani.
  
  I’ve had similar realizations about words like “across” and “again”.
  
  Yeah, actually I had never thought about the structure of the word either. Thanks for the great shower thought!
  
  I've definitely had a similar feeling with band names and brand names, etc. You're just so used to hearing them that they are their own thing without being the component words that the name contains.
  
  Ha same
- I think the pronunciation, specifically the blending of the end of "upside" and beginning of "down", turns it into one of those compound words that your brain interprets as an independent word, rather than a combination of its composite parts.
  
  Unused to wonder if the radio announcers that are always reciting the station call letters found that the letters stopped sounding like individual sounds, and the whole recitation became a sort of "word" for them. Like "You're listening to 102.9FM WBLM!" Did it stop being "double-you bee ell emm," and turn into more of a mashup of "dubbleyabeeyelmm"?
  True, the difference is pretty subtle, especially to a listener, but I wonder strange things sometimes...
  
  I think this is the case for a lot of words. It ceases to be a combination of words and it's just one word. Then in the shower you break it down and ohhh.
- Downside up?
  
  Down on the upside

Now explain why some people are "down for things" while others are "up for it"
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- Why do you park in a driveway and drive in a parkway? What is the deal?

Wait until you find out “bottoms up” isn’t about a group of people taking an elevator to get mimosas
- Get your bottom in that elevator and take it up to the bar

Brave of you to post this

Good grief...

Wait until you learn the news is new.
- In French, it's also the same origin (nouvelles = news; nouvelle/nouveau = new)
- Damnit someone just last week told me it was an acronym for notable events weather and sports but this makes more sense
  
  A good rule of thumb is that any word etymology that is an acronym is probably false if the word is more than 100 years old.

TIL that people didn't get this. I had a similar situation where I would pronounce unleaded as unleeded
- Oh, I used to do this all the time. You see a word in print, but you never hear anybody say it, so you wind up pronouncing it wrong.
  I think the best was when I pronounced "misled" as my-seld because I thought it was the past tense of "misle".
  
  The spelling of some words can be very Ms. Leeding

Well, yeah. That's.. how words work?
- "Right-side up"

Does "right-side up" mean the right side is up or the "right" side is up? English does not make sense
also hi binette
- Right = correct
  "The correct side is up"
  I agree, English is a mess.
- Right as in correct.
  hi nww :D
  
  Right as incorrect.
  Stupid english
- So right side up means its on it's side?
- English where feat smell and noses run
  
  Feet, not feat
  
  Artist: English feat. Smell & No$3$
  Track: Run

Always funny to see native speakers discover trivial facts about their language
- Took me until high school to realize bonjour=bon jour=good day. My brain just about exploded. Worldview destroyed.

- Go away with that attitude.
  
  Oh nooooo someone called someone else stupid on the internet. Quick! We must don our white knight armour at the soonest to defend that poor defenseless specimen.
  
  🚪🚶‍♂️

This reminds me of the time I had a co-worker tell me "That's why they call it 'work'. 'Cause you're working!"
- I mean it's more that it's "working" because it's "work"

I'm my language it's "bottom up" (ondersteboven).
Also came to a similar realization in my language with "averechts", which means the other way around.
Rechts = right (side, from my pov)
Averechts = ave ( dialect for "your") right side.
You're basically communicating "my right or your right". Asking for right or left can be done by saying rechts or averechts.
Also besides ondersteboven and averechts, we have achterstevoren, which means back side in front.
- We say something like "legs up"
  
  "Head's down" team here
- Keine "links?"
  Mein deutsch ist sehr schlect, ich hatte zwei jahren fünfzehn jahren zuvor LAL (lachen aus louter).
  
  Tis geen Duits, mijn vriend.
  It's not German.
  
  OP is using Dutch, not German
- Nice one, a bit like right vs stage right

The opposite of "upside down" is not "downside up", but "right-side up".
The opposite of "right-side up" is not "left-side down", but "upside down".
Ladies, gentlemen, and all in between. The English language.
- The up side is the right side. The down side is the wrong side. Quite logical to me
  
  You've just made it make sense. Have an upvote of my gratitude.

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Holy shit does that mean that inside out means the inside is out? 🤯

Thank God, another stupid person like me. We are strong in numbers.

And then someone tries that again with "Just realized that "downside up" means "the down side is up", making it downside up" to see if it makes anymore sense.

The letter W is both called "double-U" and looks like two letter Us combined (in some curvy fonts at least)
- In my language it's called double-v, which makes so much more sense to me.
  
  Apparently "W" was originally written as "uu" as early as ~600AD, hence the name, however it still used Latin/Roman letters which hadn't yet distinguished between u and v as letters. For at least 700 years, u and v appear to have been considered the same and interchangeable (so "Double U " could look like "uu" or "vv") but it depends on your language whether it was verbally called a "U" or a "V" until the first recorded distinction between the two in a Gothic era alphabet written in 1386. The two apparently did still see some overlap in use until about the 1700s with the turning point appearing to be when the distinction between their capital forms was accepted by the French Academy in 1726.
  tl;dr: "Double U" predates the distinction between "U" and "V" so it's up to chance which letter a language called it before it stuck.
- Even moreso if you consider the old Latin alphabet that used V and didn’t have U.
- IIRC from high school, they taught us “V” was “Vega” and “W” was “doble Vega”. Looking at Wikipedia, I may be remembering that wrong. They have “ve” and “doble ve”