check out Engrish.com (a site full of mostly japanese mangled english..)

on left menu, click on Signs and Posters..

to to LAST, and then Previous--(penultimate page)
to get to "Pictures 177 to 192 of 195"

scroll down to the bottom of the page.

the first europian language dictionary in japan was a Dutch/Japanese one.. Later they realized Dutch was not the most widely spoken language in the world, (just happened that Dutch had made inroads into that part of asia!)

Trap--as a synonym for staircase/stepping stones was apparently not unknown in english.(at some point in the past) and the japanese still use Trap occationally.


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