Re: some reorganization: "false friends" and "wasei eigo".

On 5/6/06 4:30 AM, in article e3i1ct$hi0$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Ben Bullock"
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"*** Moores" <rdmoores@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ben Bullock wrote:

Any corrections, additions, or suggestions for these three pages?

You have "rinse" and "rinsu" (hair conditioner) as False Friends. Yet
http://www.tfd.com/rinse has "A solution used in coloring or
conditioning the hair" as one of the meanings of "rinse".


Thanks, but can you tell me if this is a common word in English?

I think rinse got in there a long time ago.

I believe I've seen it on bottles of substances that my daughters apply to
their hair when in the shower. There are about 1000 bottles of various such
substances forming a sort of fence around the bathtub.
I'll ask my daughter who is a nascent hairstylist whether "rinse" is a
common hair product term.

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