I once asked a young female French student at the breakfast -table, if she would like some " Preserve" ( with an acute ), thinking it to mean "jam", and was mortified when her mother stonily informed me that, No, her daughter did NOT require a Condom !!However, she DID find the " Soft Verges " signs on our motorways amusing, ( as do all French people ) , as "Verges" is an old French word for Dicks, or Cocks !! Meanwhile, I have recently been listening the Tom Lewis offering "Poles Apart ", and am surprised to discover that the Polish for " North West Passage " is-------" North West Passage" .....No misunderstanding there, then ???