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    What word is spelt the same way in nine languages: English, French, Danish, Dutch, German, Swedish, Spanish, Norwegian, and Portuguese?

    Question #10084. Asked by Prestage. (Feb 02 01 9:28 AM)


    l3i7l

    		RADIO is the same in at least 20 different languages. Want some more fun? Check out the capitalized words in the next sentence. In how many countries could you take your AUTOMATIC AUTOMOBILE to the CAFE or CABARET, next to the BANK, and order a BANANA, some CHOCOLATE, a BEER or some COFFEE? The spellings may not be exact, but I bet you would be understood.

    Feb 03 01, 12:17 AM
    Moleman

    		TAXI - is the same and means the same in all those languagues. Whereas some of the examples given above are English imports used instead of the native language to attract anglophones. They have local terms, e.g in French voiture for an automobile; sexe for sex and automatique for automatic. Automobile is hardly even used in England, they use car. TAXI is French, Danish, Dutch ... etc. for TAXI.

    l3i7l could be right with RADIO though.

    Feb 04 01, 5:21 PM

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