Lowlands-L: Beyond the Pale: A border-crossing guide for language learners
Lowlands-L: Beyond the Pale: A border-crossing guide for language learners

Introduction
False Friends
Soundalikes
Words To Avoid
Words to Confuse
Words I Love
Words I Hate
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False Friends

First popularized under the French name faux amis, “false friends” are expressions that are clearly related but have different meanings in two languages. (This does not include words that sound alike without being related, the type for which Teresa Dowlatshahi coined the term “shoecabbage.”)

· Dutch <> English

· Dutch <> German

· Dutch <> Low Saxon

· English <> English

· English <> German

· English <> Hawaiian Creole English (“Pidgin,” “Dakine”)

· English <> Low Saxon

· Scots <> Low Saxon

 

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