What about similar oddities in English?
(This question is inspired by this comic by https://www.exocomics.com/193/ (link found by BunScientist@lemmy.zip)) Edit: it’s to its in the title. Damn autocorrect.

  • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    It does make learning other languages fun. Currently in the middle of French, and there’s so many words i already know. Eg:

    • Déjà vu - already seen
    • Cul-de-sac - butt (bottom) of the bag
    • Laissez faire - let do/let make
    • Lieu - place