Careful with your plurals
A few years ago as part of a school exchange I spent some time in Bielefeld in Germany. At a gathering of similar host students one embarassed girl explained to her host family how she made a faux pas. In German, you can often form the plural by adding -en, for example: Blume, flower, and Blumen, flowers, ... so the girl described how she had missed several 'buses' on her way to the event. So, the German for bus is Bus but if you add the -en you get Busen which means 'breasts'! Somehow, I've never forgotten that one.
Sent by: M Finch
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