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Preserving wood!

Soon after we moved to France, my husband went into the local hardware shop and asked for un ±è°ùé²õ±ð°ù±¹²¹³Ù¾±´Ú pour bois and wondered why everyone fell about laughing. He didn't know that ±è°ùé²õ±ð°ù±¹²¹³Ù¾±´Ú is French for a condom! He should have asked for un conservateur.

Sent by: Sylvia

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Sarah, Amersham 2010-02-04

I did that too, only I was commenting about the number of ±è°ùé²õ±ð°ù±¹²¹³Ù¾±´Ús in the raspberry jam!

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Carol, USA 2009-03-24

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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