Italian False Friends

by Ronnie Ferguson

Italian words that resemble words in English but have different meanings are the cause of student bafflement and some hilariously mistaken usage. Examples of falsi amici that continue to amuse teachers of Italian include casino, which is a brothel or mess, not a gambling place, and intossicazione, which is food poisoning, not intoxication. Ronnie Ferguson has confronted the much-neglected problem of false friends, ' or deceptive cognates, with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802069487
• ISBN13: 9780802069481
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 10.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher