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nautilas

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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 2:25 am

oda(turkish)- room
oda(lithuanian)- skin

Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 9:57 pm

They're written differently, but the pronunciation's pretty much identical;

Acorn (English)
Eekhoorn (Dutch) = Squirrel

This probably doesn't count, but the dutch words for rabbit (konijn) and king (koning) are pretty similar too, which led to an interesting mistake by this fella. xd