Tuna ice-cream
May. 31st, 2012 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squirmeliaA few weeks ago, the Metro had an article about So Bad So Good's 25 Handy Words That Simply Don't Exist in English.
Other words I have been thinking about recently include "souffle" ("breath" in French), and the fact that paper, hair and God sound the same when you say them in Japanese. I ate Sicilian cactus fruit ice-cream recently and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
verticalsun26 told me prickly pears are also called "tuna". I ate tuna!
Other words I have been thinking about recently include "souffle" ("breath" in French), and the fact that paper, hair and God sound the same when you say them in Japanese. I ate Sicilian cactus fruit ice-cream recently and
verticalsun26 told me prickly pears are also called "tuna". I ate tuna!![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2012-06-05 10:58 am (UTC)And I'd also like to propose one of my favourite Finnish words for inclusion: "avanto" which means the hole in the ice (in a lake or the sea) you make to go swimming in the winter.