OpinionPeter Edgerton: Spanish missteps:
To be fair, saying 'piña' (pineapple) rather than 'pino' (pine wood) isn't the greatest faux-pas in the history of ...
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Peter Edgerton Recalls an Amusing Spanish Mix-UpAt a shop, the columnist requested treatment for pineapple furniture instead of furniture made from pine wood.
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- Edgerton confused the Spanish words piña and pino while asking for treatment for furniture made from pineapple.
- According to Edgerton, the assistant suppressed her laughter and responded sympathetically to his linguistic mistake.
- Although he has spoken Spanish daily for more than 25 years, he still occasionally confuses words with different meanings.
- In another mistake, he confused caballo and cabello, thereby saying that he liked the other person’s horse.
Do you have a product that I could use to darken some furniture made of pineapple, please?— Peter Edgerton, describing a humorous misstep in his Spanish in the column 'Peter Edgerton: Spanish missteps'.
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