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Do you know why you call "Mayday" in an emergency?
Actually it's French "m'aidez", which means "help me", but pronounced English you get "Mayday". So it got nothing to do with May 1st, just with some Britons and their bad French...
A similiar case: Jolly Roger. Nothing to do with Roger being jolly.
The first pirate flags were red and the French called them "jolie rouge", which means "beautiful red".
Does anyone know similiar words? Please post them.
Another funny word: The Chunnel. It's the Channel (hier: der Ärmelkanal) and tunnel mixed up. It's a name for the tunnel beneath the Channel.
Actually it's French "m'aidez", which means "help me", but pronounced English you get "Mayday". So it got nothing to do with May 1st, just with some Britons and their bad French...
A similiar case: Jolly Roger. Nothing to do with Roger being jolly.
The first pirate flags were red and the French called them "jolie rouge", which means "beautiful red".Does anyone know similiar words? Please post them.
Another funny word: The Chunnel. It's the Channel (hier: der Ärmelkanal) and tunnel mixed up. It's a name for the tunnel beneath the Channel.
Schön ist eigentlich alles, was man mit Liebe betrachtet.
Eva
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Practice does the master...
Everything! But maybe that would take too long. Let's see... What are you going to do in your summer holidays?
) It's history, isn't it?
and now I have an exchangestudent, which whom I mostly talk englisch.
Thanks.
I'm going to sit in front of my computer writing a lot of English rubbish in the forum.

