From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!menlo70!nsc!miker@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Interlanguage Homophones Article-I.D.: nsc.210 Posted: Thu Jul 29 11:11:56 1982 Received: Mon Aug 2 01:14:53 1982 I once attended a lecture given by a Japanese gentleman from Bell Labs. At several points he used the phrase "bare rubber trees", and it took me quite a while to realise he was referring to his employer! Michael Robinson