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ChrzaszczThreads: 19 Posts: 136 Joined: Jul 4, 11 ♂	Nov 6, 11, 21:22 #31
isthatu2: drinking too much fizzy soda then vurping a little this brings on a gastronomic theme..... The Northern Welsh word for microwave is the splendid onomatopoeic word 'popty ping'!!! Make sure you accentuate the final 'ping'! Somehow the sound of the microwave has become incorporated into the word...

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Japanese:

Did Japanese a few years ago, and came across loads of funny words, meaning they sounded funny to myself.

The equivalent of the English word 'is' is 'desu' with a silent 'u' - pronounced 'dess', and is usually put at the end of a sentence.

'I am a stewardess' is 'Wa-ta-shi wa su-chu-wa-h-de-s de-s(u)'.

telephone number is 'denwo bango'.

German

One only word which does give me a wry smile is 'dudelsack' (bagpipes).

French

The French word for paperclip is 'trombone' - a paperclip does look like a trombone, or is that the other way round (n'est pas?).

Please, keep to the original topic. Thank you.

ChrzaszczThreads: 19 Posts: 136 Joined: Jul 4, 11 ♂	Nov 6, 11, 22:07 #33
Przepraszam! I got carried away!!!! ;-)

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Nov 7, 11, 13:44 #34

isthatu2:

The Polish for Breasts and First sound almost the same,one little letter difference :)

I was in Manchester city centre recently, and I saw a company called "Cheeper Van Hire", and it sounds like it could mean "P*ssy Van Hire" if you say it a certain way, lol.

Back in the early 2000s, there used to be a club here in south London, started by a few people I used to know from the rave scene, and they used to drive around in a van with the name of the club - "Huje" (pronounced "Huge", of course). Someone else Polish beat me to it, but they soon found out how we would say it, and what that means :D

I always wonder what a pork dog is when I walk past a shop's refrigerated section and see "Pork Pies" haha.

gumishuThreads: 17 Posts: 3,943 Joined: Apr 6, 09 ♂	Nov 7, 11, 14:05 #35
isthatu2: For some reason when I pronounced the word Wino above a booze shop the english way(which I thought was a funny name for an offy...) my friend nearly pee'd herself laughing......still baffled,something to do with a sore belly was all i got from her mime..... if you pronounce 'wino' the English way it sounds like Polish 'łajno' which is animal's turd in Polish or simply crap

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