The Word Is Not 'Stockade'!

richardandtracy

It'll only come back with more cats.

I could cope with that.

Regards

Richard

WendyLuvsCatz

a cat stockage made of cardboard boxs defended with swipes of the paw

Taoz

"Sometimes words have two meanings."  - Robert Plant (Q.E.D.)

namffuak

Brings to mind George Carlin's bit about flammable, inflammable, and nonflammable. Two conditions, three words  but that's OK, inflammable used to mean it doesn't flam - then the newspaper editors started writing about "highly inflammable" which means it flams pretty darn good.

Short form - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IhgSnLYOuYg

butterflyfish

Taoz said:

"Sometimes words have two meanings."  - Robert Plant (Q.E.D.)

Stockade also means a military prison. 

riftwitch

SilverGirl said:

csaa said:.

Even the multinational companies step on these land mines. Mitsubishi, for example, brands a popular SUV as pajero world-wide, except in Spanish speaking countries. Thanks, BBC, for an enlightening explanation why this is so. 

Cheers!

My last job was in records for a multinational corporation. Among other things, I had to help make sure everything was entered correctly in the computer system so it would be retained/destroyed properly. Came across a lot of entries titled "Receipts for the Bimbos."

...turns out it was a bakery. The person I was working with and I both had a good laugh when I explained what that means in the States. I'd been thinking their team building parties were a lot wilder than ours.

I've seen the Bimbo brand in the grocery store I work for. There is also a vehicle manufacturer in India called Tata Motors. That means something totally different here in the US.

nonesuch00

There is a "joke stockade" (pillory as I'm now told) at Disney World, Florida that we all tried. I think it's America's Hollywood that messed up the world on that incorrect nomenclature.