>>>The world-famous book from last year "Eats, shoots and leaves", by Lynn Truss - well she's my punctuation hero. You might know I'm a bit of a stickler for English, and, when I read her book, I wanted her to have my babies! :-)
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>>You may find my favoUrite example on my ambiguity page, at the bottom:
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>At the botton of what? Not the "False Friends" page?
The "Ambiguity, thy name is English" -
http://ndragan.com/lange/dvosmisleno.html"False friends" is a known phenomenon between any pair of languages, where you have the same word with different meanings.