Better yet, slutstation is the word for the last stop or terminal on a bus or train line. Spoiler: Swedish is somehow responsible for the majority of these.ĭie Fahrt - means “trip” in German (like a vacation)
Weird Finnish Phrases that Make No Sense in English Moving to Finland to Study. Pronunciation is given in the International. (1966) Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases in Current English. The list below contains some of the most commonly mispronounced words (mostly by foreigners) in English. Sordophones can definitely exist within the container of a single language - for instance, there are plenty of English words that sound dirty to English speakers, such as “tease-hole” and “haboob.” But the most entertaining sordophones often derive their meaning from speakers of one language perceiving words from another language in a way they were not originally intended to sound.īelow, for your educational purposes and definitely not for your entertainment, are some foreign-language words that might sound dirty to English speakers. Antier/Anteayer (Spanish) Can we all agree that saying, The day before yesterday, is a complete waste of words So many words for such a simple concept. Sometimes they may seem weird and funny to those new to the language. curiosity about English words and about the nature of language in general. These words are exactly what their name implies: terms that sound dirty, or “filthy sounding.” In Gizmodo, Esther Inglis-Arkell came up with a word for this type of linguistic phenomenon: a sordophone. But so go the hilarities of language exchange. Take a word like croissant, a real landmine we took from the French. The funny thing about living in a world with roughly 7,000 spoken languages is that inevitably, speakers of one language will hear a word in a completely different language and think, “Hehe, that person just said ‘butt.'” Words that sound dirty to speakers of another language are often completely innocuous, even boring, terms in their native context.
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