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This is French for.....
Posted: 09 May 2020, 14:21
by Airspeed
Re: This is French for.....
Posted: 09 May 2020, 15:26
by Dev One
One reason why I returned to Blighty........I wonder if DeepL translates like that! I use it because it seems to be better than Google & M$.
Keith
Re: This is French for.....
Posted: 09 May 2020, 16:12
by 511Flyer
English isn't any better. Lots of words, spelt the same, have several different meanings. FAIR for example.
Fair enough?
Re: This is French for.....
Posted: 09 May 2020, 18:17
by FlyTexas
Brian
Re: This is French for.....
Posted: 09 May 2020, 20:51
by Kevin Farnell
An Italian girl I used to work with got annoyed with the pronunciation of 'CHIP', 'SHIP' and 'SHEEP'.
Kevin
Re: This is French for.....
Posted: 09 May 2020, 20:55
by GHD
We had a Chinese guy who worked with us, he was called Peter Lee.
He was always called Cram Ling Ton.
Pedterlee is ia village n Co. Durham and Cramlington is in Northumberland.
Re: This is French for.....
Posted: 09 May 2020, 21:44
by simondix
Peterlee where Peterloo took place.
Re: This is French for.....
Posted: 09 May 2020, 23:08
by emfrat
And of course 'fat chance' and 'slim chance' mean the same
MikeW
Re: This is French for.....
Posted: 09 May 2020, 23:14
by Dev One
Not forgetting Slough & slough ( Slough used to be in Middlesex, & slough (sluff) in a despond)
Keith
Re: This is French for.....
Posted: 10 May 2020, 05:49
by Airspeed
Dev One wrote: ↑09 May 2020, 23:14
Not forgetting Slough & slough ( Slough used to be in Middlesex, & slough (sluff) in a despond)
Keith
Slough is still in Middlesex, Keith ( I just checked, as we used to go there in the 50s)
and don't snakes slough their skins?
Dev One wrote: ↑09 May 2020, 15:26
One reason why I returned to Blighty........I wonder if DeepL translates like that! I use it because it seems to be better than Google & M$.
Keith
DeepL- another thing I've learnt today
Thanks.