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- The term "Dreaming" is based on the root of the term "altjira" ("alcheringa") used by the Aranda people, although it has since been pointed out that the rendition is based on a mistranslation.
- The name "waxberry" is also a common mistranslation to the Chinese fruit, Yangmei (杨梅) or Myrica rubra.
- "The ducks come from the trucks" – Romanian language pun about a mistranslation (duck and truck sound like dac and trac, the ethnonyms for Dacian and Thracian).
- However, this has recently been proven to be a mistranslation. Aristotle's lantern is actually referring to the whole shape of sea urchins, which look like the ancient lamps of Aristotle's time.
- The common name "idiot fruit" is a mistranslation of this.
- The word Osirica could also be a mistranslation of the word "ostraca" which were pottery fragments found at the Deir el-Medina site.
- The last warning contains a mistranslation from Directive 2001/37/EC – "hydrogen" was translated as "ugljik" (carbon) instead of "vodik".
- Due to perhaps a mistranslation of the Greek of Herodotus, before the early 18th century Europeans were convinced that these ibises had human feet.
- In other theory, it was claimed that Jukbang was Gyeongsun's mother, but this make the result of mistranslation in Goryeo history.
- Writing in 1936, Charles Cutler Torrey explains that the mistranslation at Jn 14:2 arose from an erroneous vocalization.
- Baronius' error was later discovered and corrected, but the mistake was recorded as an example of mistranslation in books such as Henry B. Wheatley's "History of Human Error".
- The film is known in English as "No Trespassing!", a mistranslation of the title, which actually refers to a popular phrase used in a staunch military defense.
- Nonetheless, the Chinese name (...) of the street was a mistranslation, as it has little to do with the Southeast Asian country.
- al-Dawood argued that his comment was misunderstood due to mistranslation and misquoting.
- However, the possibility was subsequently dismissed as a mistranslation and the blog has since disappeared.
- The etymology of the word "sine" comes from the Latin mistranslation of the word "jiba", which is an Arabic transliteration of the Sanskrit word for half the chord, "jya-ardha".
- The English name 'Day of Hatred' is somewhat of a mistranslation.
- The name "Real World Tag League" was a mistranslation by AJPW promoter Giant Baba; "saikyō" in Japanese means "strongest," not "real", but Baba used Engrish for promotional material.
- Chinese maps show a Cephalostachyum Museum in Beijing. However, this appears to be a mistranslation; the museum is actually dedicated to the diabolo, a kind of yo-yo made of bamboo.
- Some anglophone sources wrongly list a race called the [...] in 1901. This may stem from a mistranslation of the contemporary French sources such as the magazine [...] of March 1901.
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