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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I think it's depends on the region. Prussians have adapted many words from French, so you'll find many words pronounced with hard consonants and German vowels. "Ensemble" (as in orchestra) = Angssambel, "Sanssouci" = Sangssussi.
English has the same (I *think*) contortion of "ensemble", which always sounds bad (to me) shoehorned into three syllables...
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"Niche" is a word where American pronunciation always gets me.
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It's "nitch" in America, right? Same with "clique". :(
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