Horses?

Posted on the 6S Social Network 4Feb10

I lived in The Netherlands for a year in 1999-2000. I learned as much Dutch as my American tongue would allow before I moved there. When I started talking to Dutch people, I couldn't help but notice that they were giving me odd looks when they found out that I spoke only English. When a Dutch person would greet me, in Dutch, I would say, "Pardon?"...then came the odd look. I found out a little later that "paarden" (pronounced pardon) in Dutch means "horses". When someone would ask me, in Dutch, how I was doing, I was replying back, in Dutch, "horses".