It actually is „(die) Delikatessen“. As a German from Saxony, Dresden, I would not know the second term. A proper German word would be „doppeldeutig“ (as it would be „eindeutig“ for unambiguous).
It's funny how "delicatessen" in German is "Feinkost" and "double entendre" in French is "double sens". (Though sure, both world be understood in French/German.) Does anyone else know any other "loan words" which were not just loaned, but stolen?
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‘Love’ means 0 in tennis. A theory is that it comes from l’oeuf (egg, in French), because 0 looks like an egg on the scoreboard. Does that qualify?
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It's intriguing, anyway! I need to look up where "deuce" comes from, now...
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It's not quite the same but in Denmark a danish pastry is called wienerbrød, literally "Vienna bread", so they don't even claim it as their own.
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It's good enough to add to my mental collection, thanks! There must be a few examples like this with food...
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“Al fresco”
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I can completely imagine this being meaningless outside of the English-speaking world!
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"Bag" came from old Norse "baggar", which we lost in Norwegian and only very recently imported back from English.
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"Footing" is Spanish for jogging.
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I'm glad there's thievery in both directions!
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