false friend indeed

Coma HQ was offline for the greater part of the day so I could neither read what you've all been up to nor post myself. Ah, well. For tonight I'm just going to share a brilliant example of "But! But that's what it says in the dictionary!"

A colleage was reading through application forms for an exchange project filled in in English by Austrian high-school students when she came across a blank field with the handwritten explanatory note "please see side dish". Both annex/enclosure and side dish (the culinary kind) mean "Beilage" in German...