Adam Jacot de Boinod’s
Wide World of Language Mistakes
Wide World of Language Mistakes
- On a detour sign in Japan: Stop: Drive Sideways
- In a Copenhagen airline ticket office: We take your bags and send them in all directions
- Over the bathroom sink in a Mexican hotel: The water has been passed personally by the hotel manager
- In a hotel room in Cambodia: Sorry for guests who have problem, and thank for guests who have no problem
Adam Jacot de Boinod worked on the first series of BBC Television’s QI for Stephen Fry, and is the author of The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from around the World – Penguin Books, £10.
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