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** With the defection of Nebraska (and less relevantly, Colorado), the Big Ten now has twelve members, and the Big Twelve has ten.

** Similarly, the Atlantic 10 conference actually has thirteen full-time members.

** Spanish Protip: A guy cannot say "Estoy embarazado" since ''embarazo'' means pregnancy, not embarrassment. Okay, [[Mister Seahorse]] can, but that's it! Girls are also recommended to not say it unless they've recently been knocked up.

** Similarly, "excitado" does ''not'' mean "excited". It means "sexually aroused".

** The Slovak and Czech term for "(economic) competition" - "konkurencia/konkurence" - sounds awfully similar to the English word "concurrence", which, of course, means "parallel progress". The terms clearly stem from the same roots of international vocabulary, but have likely experienced quite a big shift in the semantics of said vocabulary...

** People have drawn the wrong conclusion about Romans for years because of the word "vomitorium." It ''sounds'' like a place to unload some food and drink during a really long party. In reality, it's a stadium exit - because a properly-designed one will spew people out rapidly once the games are over.

** False cognates are words that looks similar and have similar meanings, but are completely unrelated. Not the same as false friends (which can sometimes be cognates).

*** An example would be the Greek word ''θεός'' (theos) and the [[Pre-Columbian Civilizations|Nahuatl]] ''teotl''; both words mean "god" in their respective languages but [[Anachronism Stew|we're pretty sure ancient Greece and the Aztec Empire never had contact with one another]] outside of a game of ''[[Civilization]]'' (wherein one probably conquered the other).