Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : I'm a Hispanic attending college with predominantly white students and I room with 3 people in an apartment, all white and are some of my close college friends. Occasionally when I'm making food, I purchase the materials to make a meal, tacos, and I always pick up some fresh "limes" to add flavor.

I finish cooking and tell them my food is ready if they want to have some and I tell them there are lemons to squeeze on the meal. Upon hearing this they correct me saying those are limes and not lemons, which I apologize about because growing up in a Hispanic neighborhood we call them limon in Spanish, regardless of the color, practically my whole life. They then tell me to learn the difference since they are "VERY different" things. I decide to not fuss with it so I just shut up. This is maybe the third time this same conversation was had.

Now today, I end up throwing some stuff out from my fridge and find a few limes. I am about to throw them away and one of them catches me and ask what I'm tossing away, I'm sure they were only asking to make sure I wasn't throwing away their stuff on accident. I tell them "I found these lemons-," they then respond with "limes." I correct myself and tell them it's just a common thing in Spanish and that it isn't a big deal. Another person comes up, overhearing the conversation and disagrees with me. This is the conversation that followed.

Roommate 1 (R1): You can't keep calling them lemons. These are limes.

Me: I know they are, it's just common to say lemon for me and my family. It's just one letter off from limon, so it's not that big a deal.

Roommate 2 (R2): That's like saying (my name) is the same as (my name with a wrong letter).

Me: Okay, but just translating it gives me the word lemon anyway. It's not a serious thing.

R2: What if someone was allergic to LIMES and not lemons. You can really harm someone with that mistake!

Me: I don't know anyone with lime but it's just a name within the family of citrus.

R1: With that logic you are okay calling oranges lemons.

Me: That's silly because that's not what I meant with the family part. It's translation based.

R1: Regardless that is what your logic sounds like.

I then just walk away and drop the conversation again, hoping not to deal with it again.

R1: Would you be okay if someone put limes in your lemonade?

I just ignored it and shut myself off in my room.

There was a third time the same conversation happened in the past, but again I just ignored it.

AITA for wanting to call limes lemons? It's just been culturally accepted for my entire life and not a single person I have been with had ever given me any issue calling them lemons up until now. I really think they are being jerkish about coming about it and I'm really not trying to upset them when I call them lemons, it's just a translation error from Spanish to English.