Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Word of the week 40

In Spanish the word 'esposa' means 'wife', while the (plural) word 'esposas' means 'handcuffs'. So, mi esposa, mis esposas = my wife, my handcuffs. What a chauvinist language ;)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

this is really interesting... done some serious research huh? :)

triesti said...

nah.. just looked up my oxford spanish dictionary under 'esposa' :)