A little thing that amused me.
We're just back from a four-night visit to Lisbon (highly recommended!), which gave me my first real taste of Portuguese. I knew that 'x' is pronounced like 'sh', so of course, when I saw this sign on a door...
...I pushed.
Reader, it means 'pull'. 'Push' is empurre.
(You can hear it pronounced here.)
We're just back from a four-night visit to Lisbon (highly recommended!), which gave me my first real taste of Portuguese. I knew that 'x' is pronounced like 'sh', so of course, when I saw this sign on a door...
...I pushed.
Reader, it means 'pull'. 'Push' is empurre.
(You can hear it pronounced here.)

