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Germans are surprised to discover that it’s possible to tour the United States on a Beemer, which sounds to them like “Beamer”, a word that native speakers of English probably don’t even know, because “Beamer” is a pseudo-loan word. We have some more examples for you… Wikipedia article More information about implications and causes of so-called \"false-friends\". more words See this list at Wikipedia for some more instances and examples of Denglisch.