More on "false friends"; an interesting website discovered

In my Language idiosyncracies posting (8/26/06) I referred to faux amis (false friends): words in other languages which appear to be equivalents of English words but actually are not. Among several examples, I listed asistir in Spanish and assister in French, which seem to be the equivalent of "assist" in English but actually mean "attend" (as to attend a concert or a wedding).

Indirectly, due to that posting, I came across a long list of such false friends; it happened because someone visited my blog through a blog search engine using "false friends" as the search words. When anyone visits my blog through a search engine, I can go back through his search and pick up the hits that he got. Thus, I came across a long list of "false friends" at the website "All Experts" (http://experts.about.com) by doing a search at the home page for "false friends" and being taken to it.

The list is very long and has "false friend" pairings of many languages (French, Spanish, Romanian, German, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese, and many others) with English.

Incidentally, the "All Experts" website has 36 subjects, beginning with "Arts/Humanities" and ending with "TV/Radio." Each subject has numerous subclassifications–I found the "false friends" list buried several links down from the subject "Cultures." Be warned, however, that many of the links are commercial, such as one would find in the Yellow Pages; but others are genuine encyclopedic entries similar to those in Wikipedia.