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False Friends
False Friends - linguistics -
"False friends" is a linguistic term for a word in one language that sounds similar or is spelled similarly to a word from another language. However, the two words may have different connotations (e.g. English "demand" means "an order" vs. French "demande" means "a request") or different definitions altogether (e.g. English "rat" means "rodent" vs. Danish "rat" means "wheel").
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