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Re: false friends

#2279 05/13/00 12:26 PM

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Whoops!

I'm sure there is such a list. I have a book published over 20 years ago listing English-Portuguese false cognates. One of my favorites is 'exquisite' (in Brazilian Portuguese, 'exquisito' means 'weird')

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Re: Basque language David108 05/22/00 06:27 PM

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