From: utzoo!utcsrgv!utcsstat!ian Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Interlang Homonym Article-I.D.: utcsstat.273 Posted: Wed Jul 28 22:53:55 1982 Received: Thu Jul 29 08:07:35 1982 A professor of Spanish once described a problem which could occur when norteamericanos visiting Spanish-speaking countries try to buy `soap' - they can get sent to a restaurant because the closest word in pronunciation is `sopa' (pron. sort of like eng `SOAP-ah') which stands not for soap but for *soup*. I don't know of anyone to whom it happened, but it's at least possible. Ian Darwin U of Toronto Computing Services