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	False Cognates by Paulo Merson
		A false cognate is a word or phrase that looks the same in both idioms but has a different meaning.
		The list contains false cognates that are common and well known to most Brazilians who studied English, but many items in the list are curious.
		In addition to false cognates, other words in English can be tricky when they are used with a meaning that is different from the usual one.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/pmerson/falseCognates.html (529 words)

	False cognate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A pair of false cognates consists of two words in different languages that appear to be or are sometimes considered cognates (words in different languages with a common root) when they are in fact not.
		One difference between false cognates and false friends is that while false cognates mean roughly the same thing in two languages, false friends bear two distinct (sometimes even opposite) meanings.
		Even though not real or false cognates, the Japanese words iie ("no") and hai ("yes") are similar to the respective words in Estonian, except they are backwards (with the i in hai becoming a j); i.e.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/False_cognate (534 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Cognate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cognates may often be less easily recognised than the above examples and authorities sometimes differ in their interpretations of the evidence.
		Cognates may not have the same meaning: dish (English) and Tisch ("table", German), or starve (English) and sterben ("die", German), or head (English) and chef ("chief, head", French), serve as examples as to how cognate terms may diverge in meaning as languages develop separately.
		False cognates are words that are commonly thought to be related (have a common origin) whereas linguistic examination reveals they are unrelated.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Cognate (689 words)

	¡Colorín Colorado! Using cognates to develop comprehension in English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cognates are words in two languages that share a similar meaning, spelling, and pronunciation.
		Cognate awareness is the ability to use cognates in a primary language as a tool for understanding a second language.
		As students move up the grade levels, they can be introduced to more sophisticated cognates, and to cognates that have multiple meanings in both languages, although some of those meanings may not overlap.
	www.colorincolorado.org /introduction/cognates.php (632 words)

	FrostCloud Forums - A Biological Dig for the Roots of Language
		Cognates are verbal cousins, like the Greek podos and the English foot, both descended from a common ancestor.
		Cognates for the word wheel exist in many branches of the Indo-European family tree, and linguists are confident that they can reconstruct the ancestral word in proto-Indo-European.
		False cognates are particularly common in core or common vocabulary.
	www.frostcloud.com /forum/showthread.php?t=2310 (3534 words)

	MED Magazine
		The following list of false friends between Russian and English is populated by words which were 'borrowed' into Russian from other European languages, but which, unlike softver and the other borrowings discussed above, can lure the learner into some uncomfortable traps.
		Thus, chef is a false friend between both English and French and English and Russian, but a 'true friend' between French and Russian.
		Cognates — words which have come from the same source, however long ago — are perhaps the most slippery of them all.
	www.macmillandictionary.com /MED-Magazine/july2004/21-FalseFriends-Russian.htm (1185 words)

	DR1 Forums - Explanation of "false cognates"
		False cognates are Spanish words that look like the English word (or vice versa) but do not have the same meaning.
		I compiled a list similar to this when I was teaching someone English last year.
		Introducir: This isn't truly a false cognate, for it can be translated as, among other things, to introduce in the sense of to bring in, to begin, to put, or to place.
	www.dr1.com /forums/printthread.php?t=40041 (885 words)

	Vocabulary: English vocabulary activities and links for ESL/EFL students
		A list of 210 of the most common regular verbs used in newspaper articles.
		False Cognates or False Friends (Faux Amis, Falsche Freunde, Falsi Amici, Falsos Amigos) are words that have a common form in two languages but a different meaning.
		They are "false" friends because they appear to be words we already know when in reality they are words we do not know.
	www.angelfire.com /wi3/englishcorner/vocabulary/vocabulary.html (926 words)

	Phrasebase™ - False Cognates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cognates (for those who don't know) are words that look/sound similar in Russian and English.
		A false cognate is a word that looks/sounds like an equivilent English word, but actually means something different (and could cause confusion for those of us just starting to learn Russian!).
		False cognates can be quite tricky along with causing confusion like Joe said.
	www.phrasebase.com /forum/read.php?TID=4681 (1002 words)

	Re: cognates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A cognate is a word that both looks and means the same as a word in another language.
		In the list you give, all of the pairs of words look the same, but only one pair, "México/Mexico" has the same meaning in both languages.
		The others are called "false cognates" because they only look the same.
	www.imperial.cc.ca.us /lincoln.davis/_QnA/00000022.htm (65 words)

	Correcting False Positives: Redress and the Watch List Conundrum
		The “no fly” and “selectee”[1] watch lists being provided to the air carriers for passenger screening are reported to be a fraction of the actual number of subjects the government considers too risky to be permitted to travel to the United States.
		Yet, for those who are challenging their listing, complete transparency will utterly frustrate security, and the disclosure of sources and methods will compromise intelligence gathering and allow for terrorists to game the system to avoid identification.
		Another advantage to applying the vetted record at the watch list aggregator level is that this prevents the self-disclosed enhancing attributes (e.g., address, phone, etc.) provided by the innocent consumer from being passed back to the originating intelligence and law enforcement entities.
	www.heritage.org /Research/HomelandDefense/lm17.cfm (7478 words)

	Capítulo Dos
		The word "cognate" is used to signify a word that looks and means pretty much the same thing in two languages.
		In other words, billón is a cognate in London but a false cognate in New York.
		Rapista: This is an uncommon word for a barber (peluquero or even the cognate barbero is more common), being derived from the verb rapar, to cut close or to shave.
	www.geocities.com /scottvrooman38/capitulodos.html (3480 words)

	Lesson Plan for Sports in Spain - Deportes En España por Linda Amour.
		Have them list the sports headings which are similar to English.
		Ask what makes a false cognate and to list any others they know.
		Have them list the cognates from the section under "atletismo".
	www.clta.net /lessons/spanish/level2/deporte.html (344 words)

	False friends - WordReference Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Although it is common to talk about "false cognates," there are in fact also quite a few pairs of words that are true cognates but false friends.
		The point of the name 'false cognates' is not that they aren't cognates, but that they are cognates but don't mean the same thing in both languages.
		But then a discussion of false cognates would have to omit the confusable pairs that are not cognates, like "distress" / "destreza".* That's why "false friends" is a useful designation; it covers all the confusibles.
	forum.wordreference.com /showthread.php?t=5141 (992 words)

	List of false friends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		See false cognate, false friend, list of words, list of reference tables
		The American English billion is in fact a false friend in German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish and means "Milliarde" (10
		Formerly did not apply to British English or where English was taught as a foreign language, but this is changing - see billion.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/list_of_false_friends (439 words)

	Quia - Amigos Falsos 1: False Cognates 1
		That is to say that they look like English words, but they are not cognates.
		Many of these words have similar meanings, however and are what we call "indirect cognates".
		See a list of terms used in these activities.
	www.quia.com /jg/503580.html (130 words)

	False Friends - Eduseek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		False Cognates - A list of false cognates with their correct translations.
		False Friends - A list of false friends and their correct as well as incorrect translations.
		Sonia-Portuguese: Similarities Between Portuguese and English - A list of words similar in English and Portuguese that have the same meaning.
	www.eduseek.com /navigate.php?ID=3156 (117 words)

	Embarrassed or Pregnant - Spanish Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There is a heavy-duty term used in the language-learning world called "cognate." A cognate is a word that looks similar in English and Spanish and has the same meaning in both languages.
		There are many words in Spanish and English that are cognates and many words that are "false cognates." A false cognate is a word that looks the same in both languages, sounds similar, but has a different meaning.
		This is a very drastic example, but it shows the importance of knowing that false cognates exist.
	spanish.allinfo-about.com /articles/embarazada.html (345 words)

	MED Magazine
		As with all cognates, some are entirely trustworthy; they are exactly what they seem to be.
		Finally, we come to those False Friends which have completely different meanings to their English cognates, though one can sometimes see how they came about.
		It is difficult to say which category of loan word false friend poses the most problems for learners, though I suspect that it is those words which are closest in meaning to the original English words or most likely to appear in the same context.
	www.macmillandictionary.com /MED-Magazine/april2003/06-language-interference-loan-words.htm (1601 words)

	Deriving Proto-World
		Note that R&G's list does contain quite a few real cognates-- within families, which bulks up the list and adds to the impression of suggestive similarity without actually adding any more information.
		There's three Indo-European languages in the list, three Afro-Asiatic ones, three Finno-Ugric, two Dravidian, three Almosan, three Macro-Carib, four Penutian, three Hokan, and two Andean (well, Quechua and Aymara may not be related, but the two words cited certainly are).
		Just to ram the point into the ground, here's another list of pseudo-cognates, this time between English and Chinese (and this time using pinyin, in case anyone thought I was playing some kind of trick by using Wade-Giles above).
	www.zompist.com /proto.html (1299 words)

	T+D: Lost in translation
		Cognates are words that sound alike and mean the same thing in both languages.
		Embarazada doesn't mean "embarrassed" as it does in English, but "pregnant." If you mistakenly say that someone is embarazada, "you have said that he was impregnated by an English person," laughs Calderon.
		Find a great list of false cognates and appropriate substitutes at http://spanish.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0MNT/is_12_57/ai_n6110620 (1330 words)

	Amazon.com: NTC's Dictionary of Spanish False Cognates: Books: Marcial Prado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Comprehensive Bilingual Dictionary of Spanish False Cognates by Bernard Hamel
		False cognates are words that look the same in English and Spanish but the meaning in each language is completely different.
		I cannot comment on the usage of false cognates by Spanish speakers learning English but everyday I hear cognates used by English speakers learning Spanish and the intended meaning is completely skewed due to lack of knowing the correct word or assuming that word means the same in both languages.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0844279773?v=glance (704 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		False friends / falsche Freunde - looks like English but...
		A list of false cognates - sometimes causing embarrassment or confusion!
		In-depth discussion of cognates and false friends by Charles James.
	www.serve.com /shea/cognate.htm (154 words)

	Apak 72 -- Fanzine Countdown
		And Ahrvid Engholm is back with another Smorgasbord of odd material, including a dialogue between a neofan and a Zine Master, and a list of Swedish/English false cognates.
		One's eyelids tend to droop at the endless listing of Universities with SF collections, and some of the less creative personal memoirs included here, but even so, fHapa contained the best material to arrive during this last month of the year.
		Nigel Rowe is listed as being the editor for the next and subsequent editions (5224 N. Glenwood, Chicago, IL 60640), so perhaps this will free Lindsay from the effects of such reviews in the future.
	www.efanzines.com /Apparatchik/72-fmz-countdown.html (1321 words)

	Spanish Vocabulary Index - e Learn Spanish Language
		This is a list of all of the vocabulary lessons with sound files currently available on this site, as well as some upcoming topics.
		Avoid misunderstandings by memorizing this list of common false cognates.
		Includes more than 130,000 entries, lists both American and British English, and indicates whether terms are specific to certain regions of the Spanish-speaking world.
	www.elearnspanishlanguage.com /vocabulary/vocabindex.html (690 words)

	Table of Contents jgarcia
		Suggestion: Encourage your students NOT to print, but rather to use the Web version of these lessons, writing their assignments in a Word document and e-mailing them to you.
		Within the content list for each section, you will find two types of links.
		Exercise1: Use false cognate list appendix 1to determine if sentences are correct/logical.
	faculty.mdc.edu /jgarcia/1341LdocDone/TableOfContents.htm (1443 words)

	Strategy log -- Knowledge ratings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The teacher identifies a list of words that will be important in a text and then surveys the students on how familiar they are with the term.
		This is valuable for teachers to review what words or concepts students might be uneasy with and to help gauge the appropriateness of a text for a certain class.
		Instructional connection: This strategy is useful for world language teachers to gauge their students' readiness for texts and to help identify strategies for guessing the meanings of words and terms.
	www.hamline.edu /personal/psunnarborg/stratlog5a.htm (284 words)

	Building Your German Vocabulary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Understanding these relationships may help you understand the meaning of German/English cognates which are words that had the same roots and usually still have the same meaning.
		A list of 1000 common German words which you should learn.
		After you learn the above, you will be able to guess the meaning of thousands of words seen in German websites, newspapers, and professional literature in all fields of study.
	www.disknet.com /indiana_biolab/ger210.htm (563 words)

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