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  • And then there's the problem of changing a vowel sound and VOILA you have a completely different meaning. ie: raisin/raison, cousine/cuisine, les anges/les sanges (yes, I actually made that mistake as a college student in France!)

    faux amis - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Had she, in saying the purported insult "Geraldine, c'est ma cousine," taunted a classmate with what might be the French equivalent of "Four-Eyes"?

    chahuter - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Had she, in saying the purported insult "Geraldine, c'est ma cousine," taunted a classmate with what might be the French equivalent of "Four-Eyes"?

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • Had she, in saying the purported insult "Geraldine, c'est ma cousine," taunted a classmate with what might be the French equivalent of "Four-Eyes"?

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • "Monsieur Riccoboni, this is my niece, Yolande Geoffrion, the only child of my poor cousine, Adèle de Castelnau-Jonville."

    Archive 2009-01-01 Young Geoffrion 2009

  • "Monsieur Riccoboni, this is my niece, Yolande Geoffrion, the only child of my poor cousine, Adèle de Castelnau-Jonville."

    La Sylphide Young Geoffrion 2009

  • Then we spent three rainy days in Bourgogne, visiting Kathy's cousine Karen, who with her S/O Jean-Bertrand owns an old stone farmhouse dated 1641.

    South Beneath the Full Moon Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • Russian cousine is mostly meat and potato, bread and butter, washed by a bottle of vodka.

    Last gasp of the dark ages of nutrition | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • Then we spent three rainy days in Bourgogne, visiting Kathy's cousine Karen, who with her S/O Jean-Bertrand owns an old stone farmhouse dated 1641.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • The restaurant upstairs offered decent dishes of Belorussian and international cousine, and likewise selection of beers.

    Matthew Yglesias » Krakow 2007

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