Warp wrote:

>>>   Double entendre is quite common speech, IMO.
> 
>> Again, how do you even pronounce such a word?
> 
>   You'll have to ask a French-speaking people for that.
> 
>   Examples of other commonly-used words loaned into English from French,
> and which can be quite difficult to pronounce for someone who has never
> heard them: genre, lingerie, entrepreneur, facade.

Hell, I *still* don't know how to pronounce genre! ;-)

[And lingerie is just hard to physically utter. Still, not something I'm 
ever likely to need to do...]

>> I guessed that "platonic" would be something to do with regular solids.
> 
>   Ever heard of platonic love?

Yes. I never knew what it meant though.

Actually there are lots of words I've heard and wondered what they 
meant. [Obviously I can't think of a single example *right now*...]

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