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tot he is one of my more frequent errors as well. Some of you may be sorry to learn that you live in the Untied States.
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I agree wholeheartedly with the French-English problem. I was in a French Immersion school for junior high and when I went to an English high school, I kept writing "environnement" and "gouvernement", as well as "labo" instead of "lab". Also, they'd managed to get me to think out my algebra in French so it was "x moins deux" instead of "x minus two" as I was doing my math homework!
Another side effect of my temporary French Immersion is that there are words which I first learned in French during that time, like "genocide", which I always hesitate before pronouncing in English because I'm likely to say it wrong.
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>One word that I ALWAYS write incorrectly is “chou” (cabbage) a term of endearment in French. For some odd reason I always write it as choux (plural...a whole lot of cabbage). I can reread myself and STILL miss the misspelling. <
Perhaps you love not wisely but too well? :-)
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Oh thank-you nikeblack, you are such a sweetie. That sounds so much better.
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One French-English word that trips me up is adresse-address. Enveloppe-envelope can also be tricky - I think it's the double letters. 
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