Wordie: Shoecabbage: Comments

Comment by bilby, about 1 month ago

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:21:58 +0000

Aaarrggghhhhhhh!

Comment by frogapplause, about 1 month ago

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:13:58 +0000

I think you're mixing up the oddly-shaped baking dish used to make bilby pie.

Comment by bilby, about 1 month ago

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:55:10 +0000

In the native Australian language of Warlpathamirri, frogapplause means an oddly-shaped casserole dish for baking witchetty-grubs.

Comment by Prolagus, about 1 month ago

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:28:43 +0000

Hmmm.

Comment by frogapplause, about 1 month ago

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:21:03 +0000

Maybe she doesn't know what a shoecabbage is.

Comment by Prolagus, about 1 month ago

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:52:46 +0000

Why didn't frogapplause comment here?

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Fri, 09 May 2008 06:04:27 +0000

In the teaching of Italian there is usually quite a bit of time spent on 'false friends', ie. Italian words that are identical to or closely resemble English words yet have substantially different meanings.
eg. questione and question. In Italian questione is an issue, a significant problem, not a request for information.

Comment by sionnach, 6 months ago

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:36:29 +0000

And sometimes you can combine both elements of the shoecabbage pair to form a ouija word.

Comment by adoarns, 6 months ago

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:34:15 +0000

Is a pair of words from two languages which sound the same but have different meanings.

For instance, English "shoe" sounds identical to French "chou," which means "cabbage."