• MacAnus@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    TIL! As a French speaker I would have gotten them mixed up if it wasn’t for you guys’ lil discussion here

    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      21 hours ago

      Yeah maybe a historian can comment on how it got switched in English.

      It’s what we call a “false friend”.