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From: grass@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA
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Subject: Re: False Cognates
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Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 09:30:00 EDT
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>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
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