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OP I'd like to see some examples of loan words into English, that, while they retain their original spelling, have different meanings in our tongue.
My first example is résumé: in American English (not sure about the rest of the English-speaking world), it means 'curriculum vitae." But in the original French, it means the broader "synopsis."
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