I believe it comes from the word 'miss-take' as in you've taken something wrong.
A mistake is called a mistake when the action itself was completely unintentional, not the outcome.
agerbil isn't actually a hamster but, a close "cousin". but, some people mistake hamsters for gerbils sometimes and call them that.
blunder
transgression.
This is called a typo
uhhh....your face
We say call him. Why was it a mistake? Follow your heart, not the internet. peace out
I wouldn't call her stand against racism a mistake.
It depends on the date, denomination and what you call a mistake, post new question.
A bundle of sticks
A Freudian slip is actually considered a memory mistake like when a person call's their youngest son by their oldest son's name. Sigmund Freud is the one who coined the phrase and believed that it was actually a wish or desire.
Electing Obama
It's called a mistake.