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(the latter two both meaning 'relatives'); English demand and French demander ('ask'); and English gift, German Gift ('poison'), and Norwegian gift (both 'married' and 'poison').

The term was introduced by a French book, Les Faux Amis : ou, Les Trahisons du vocabulaire anglais (False friends: or, the betrayals of English vocabulary), published in 1928.

As well as producing completely

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