Tagalog-English - English-Tagalog (Pilipino) Standard Dictionary Book

For historical reasons, there are tens of very notable and hundreds of notable false friends between English and French. This is an interesting topic that many people like to talk about. (French "formidable" means "fantastic", and "librairie" means "bookstore", for instance.) But unlike other sources about false friends, late Drs. P. Thody and H. Evans clearly had many years of first-hand experience with the French language and were able to give us a much fuller picture about each pair of these false friends. They draw sources from intellectual luminaries such as Sartre, prominent news medias such as Figaro, or legal and historical documents, and explain the nuanced meanings of the French words in their context, in contrast to their English counterparts. Since I'm personally writing a book about French vocabulary, Drs. Thody and Evan's book proves to be a valuable reference.

Occasionally I find entries in the book worthy of further discussion. For example, "sujet - the student, not the matters studied". Not sure if some of these comments were only valid at some point in the past. But overall, the distinctions made by the authors are unquestionable and interesting to read.