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Farsi Pronunciation of “Barf”

Posted by grantbarrett on October 16, 2010 · Add Comment

On an earlier show, Martha mentioned the Middle Eastern detergent called Barf. Martha shares email from listeners who say that although the word spelled the same as English barf, the Farsi pronunciation is somewhat different. This is part of a complete episode.

Kentucky Fried Vista

Posted by Grant Barrett on September 13, 2010 · Add Comment

Ciao! In this week's archive episode: If your family has guests over, how do you warn each other if one of you has a stray crumb on the face? Some families do so with the surreptitious code phrase, "There's a gazelle on the lawn." But why a gazelle? We tackle that question, as well as [...]

Detergent False Friend

Posted by grantbarrett on March 21, 2010 · Add Comment

Martha shares listener email about linguistic “false friends,” those perplexing words in other languages that look like English words, but mean something completely different. A case in point is the detergent popular in the Middle East called “Barf,” the name of which happens to be the Farsi word for “snow.” Skeptical? Behold! This is part [...]

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Farsi Pronunciation of “Barf”

Kentucky Fried Vista

Detergent False Friend