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Thread #116859   Message #3572977
Posted By: GUEST,silver
05-Nov-13 - 06:24 AM
Thread Name: Mondegreens' cousins: Soramimis
Subject: RE: Mondegreens' cousins: Soramimis
Micca:

"Gift" means "poison" in Swedish, too. The same word, curiously enough, also means "married".

I remember strolling through Stanley Park in Vancouver in 1971, happening upon the word "restroom", which, literally translated into Swedish, would mean "vilorum" which implies "final resting-place".

In Iceland, the word for toilet is "Snyrtingar". Might be useful to know.