• 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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        22 hours ago

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

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