Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.5 $; site uiucdcsb Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!seefromline From: grass@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: False Cognates Message-ID: <10500063@uiucdcsb> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 09:30:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.10500063 Posted: Wed Jul 10 09:30:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 07:41:35 EDT References: <714@ihlpa.UUCP> Lines: 10 Nf-ID: #R:ihlpa.UUCP:-71400:uiucdcsb:10500063:000:424 Nf-From: uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA!grass Jul 10 08:30:00 1985 >How about the word gift, which in German means poison. > Steve Stricklen Yeah, and there is a French candy bar called "Gift" that I saw in a train station vending machine on the German border. Hmm. One of those with a nice bottle of "Pschitt" soft drink (another nice French brand name). Real tasty. - Judy Grass, University of Illinois - Urbana {ihnp4,pur-ee,convex}!uiucdcs!grass grass%uiuc.arpa