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Over coins...
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In French,
coin
means
corner
.

It must be part of Mathews's Corpus then:
Words which have the same spelling but different meanings in French & English.
(You accept words which have several meanings in one or both languages provided that no French meaning is also an English meaning and conversely.)

You can find a list at http://www2.iap.fr/users/esposito/corpus.html.

Then you can write poems which could be read in both languages but convey different feelings:

DIRE
VENT ATONE
RECOIN
A DESIGNER
FEES & OMBRES
DON T
DERIVE
REEL GOURD

(G. Perec,
Trompe l'oeil
, 1978)
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Over coins... - by Mikee - 03-02-2007, 09:05 PM
Re: Over coins... - by Wingy - 03-02-2007, 09:45 PM
Re: Over coins... - by Mikee - 03-02-2007, 09:47 PM
Re: Over coins... - by Wingy - 03-02-2007, 09:53 PM
Re: Over coins... - by Mikee - 03-02-2007, 10:04 PM
Re: Over coins... - by Freddy - 03-07-2007, 09:35 PM
Re: Over coins... - by samskelton - 03-07-2007, 10:44 PM
Re: Over coins... - by Freddy - 03-08-2007, 01:36 PM
Re: Over coins... - by Wingy - 03-08-2007, 01:43 PM
Re: Over coins... - by ryos - 03-08-2007, 04:48 PM
Re: Over coins... - by Toybox - 03-08-2007, 04:59 PM
Re: Over coins... - by aquaMat - 03-08-2007, 06:11 PM
Re: Over coins... - by Mikee - 03-09-2007, 10:38 PM
Re: Over coins... - by Freddy - 03-09-2007, 11:04 PM
Re: Over coins... - by Mikee - 03-10-2007, 04:30 PM
Re: Over coins... - by Freddy - 03-10-2007, 07:35 PM
Re: Over coins... - by Mikee - 03-10-2007, 08:16 PM
Re: Over coins... - by Wingy - 03-11-2007, 12:38 AM
Re: Over coins... - by sherryl199 - 03-11-2007, 01:45 AM
Re: Over coins... - by Mikee - 03-11-2007, 10:12 AM
Re: Over coins... - by Wingy - 03-11-2007, 10:36 AM
Re: Over coins... - by Mikee - 03-11-2007, 10:39 AM

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