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DJ, mysteriously orthographed? Nah, just spelled phonetically Smile There's Ightham too, which, when the woman there was killed by a parcel bomb, even the SE News insisted on pronouncing as "Iggam", the plebs Wink And Leigh, which is not pronounced the same way as Leigh in Essex
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My fave is "pommel" for a button lift. I presume it's cos someone misheard "poma"...
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Good menu translation: Buffet de Hors d'Oevres


Dresser out of works !! Toofy Grin
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My fave is "pommel" for a button lift. I presume it's cos someone misheard "poma"...

I think that they are called "pommels" in quite a few areas, especially in N America maybe.

My personal favourite, nothing to do with skiing, is "prostrate cancer".
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pam w, well it does cause someone to lay up ....
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I quickly learned how to pronounce Kingussie (one of the satellite resorts of the Cairngorm ski area)
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Butterfly wrote:


Aged only 12, on my first trip to stay with my French penfriend & her family I made them roar with laughter by telling them I needed to "laver mes chevaux".

And on her visit to my family the same penfriend worried my parents when she announced one morning she had "a problem with my piles". She meant the batteries in her tranny had gone!


Yep, French penfriend/school exchange trips can cause some amusing moments. When our family was due to host my sister's French penfriend for the first time we received a letter from the French girl asking if we had the "heating middle"? This puzzled us until we realised she had attempted to translate "chauffage centrale" Smile

Idioms are also a minefield - on the School exchange when staying with the French families the schoolgirls soon learnt not to say "Je suis plein" at mealtimes when they were full. Toofy Grin
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 After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
After all it is free Go on u know u want to!

and the landlady of an Austrian B & B, many years ago, had to explain delicately to my mother that "Ich bin heiss" - a commentary on the extreme weather - could be misconstrued.
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