Preserving wood!
Soon after we moved to France, my husband went into the local hardware shop and asked for un préservatif pour bois and wondered why everyone fell about laughing. He didn't know that préservatif is French for a condom! He should have asked for un conservateur.
Sent by: Sylvia
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Every French teacher I know has a story about misusing preservatifs. I told my host mother that I had tried to buy preservative-free saline, a colleague was saying that the bread in the US isn't as good because it has a lot of preservatifs. Funny stuff.
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