<html><head></head><body lang="en-US" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"> <div style="font-family: sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><br></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Well my Professor have fallen victim of an urban legend.</div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><br></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">The point of his story appears to be - how a word from one context may be easily conflated with a similar word in another context. </div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="line-height: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="line-height: initial;">Like "Mayin Shelanu" - which I've seen translated into yiddish as "unzerer Vasser" and iirc the G'mara itself brings down this confusion</span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="line-height: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="line-height: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="line-height: initial;">French Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><br></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Hill</div><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><br></span><br style="font-family: sans-serif;"><div style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The source of the name French Hill is unclear. According to local legend, it was named after a British general, </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_French,_1st_Earl_of_Ypres" title="John French, 1st Earl of Ypres" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(90, 54, 150);">John French, 1st Earl of Ypres</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">who is said to have had his headquarters on this hill. According to this legend there was a mistake with the translation to Hebrew that named the place after the country France (in Hebrew: Tzarfat). However, French never served in this region.</span><sup style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 1; font-size: 0.75em; background-image: none; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Hill#cite_note-3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(90, 54, 150); white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"> e </span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><br></div></body></html>