English words that conflict with your language.

[Louis VI the Fat]

*Hands Ituralde a handy gift. Eventually*


When you shout 'Emergency !!!' a Frenchman will not think of a warning to impending disaster, but think something emerged, and will not understand all the excitement about it.

Entrée in English the main course, in French an appetizer. Most confusing.

'Person having pain' would make a Frenchman think nobody is having bread.


'Personne' in French can mean either one person, or everybody, or nobody, which in delightful retribution confuses the Anglos to no end.