# False friends: familiar names which mean something very different elsewhere

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**Created:** [March 24, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/false-friends-familiar-names-which-mean-something-very-different-elsewhere/811121 "2018-03-24T18:07:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/false-friends-familiar-names-which-mean-something-very-different-elsewhere/811121/157 "2018-03-26T00:38:42Z")

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Ok, there was a fun one in the Mueller thread just now…

> [@A Thread for the Mueller Investigation Results and Outcomes (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/3497):
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> Thump [says](https://www.axios.com/trump-legal-team-lawyer-tweet-dowd-digenova-olson-ba97ea5b-9bbe-4aba-8c01-fce0d259122b.html)"Na-AH! Not hard to hire a lawyer! **Nanny-nanny boo-boo!**"

Um…“childcare worker - childcare worker mistake”? Hmm, no,… “mother goat - mother goat injury”???

I can tell, from context, that it’s probably equivalent to what in my childhood we would have expressed as “Ner ner ni ner NERRRR!”. Without context? NFI.

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