When I first met my husband (Swiss) he’d sometimes say his English numbers backwards 56 = Sixty five. After we lived in the U.K. for a few years he started saying his German numbers backwards 56 = Fünfundsechzig

When I 1st met my US ex-hb, he used to say "chimbly", "fambly", "libary"... To see if he could wreck my pronunciation.

French is a tough competition - double negatives in CZ and FR are big pollutants. Then "I ain't got no time" comes easy.

Oh yeah. I remember correcting someone re "you like?", saying that was an Indian thing. And a facebook thing but not proper English.
Then I read books and articles and things and the "you like?" was all over the place
And if it takes 50years until I meet her again, I will apologize.

That's a tricky one around here. Although I wouldn't use it myself, I had to think for a sec. = I would probably not notice if someone said it.

Keep dreaming

I get fambly and libary, but what is (a) chimbly?

Chimney. The ways to incorporate "chimbly" in a regular convo were hilarious. Creative.

My boss used to say "ice-box", it so comes back anytime I look at our "frigo"

We purposely mis-pronounce some stuff just for kicks, but I think all multi-language people do that.

Sympa.

That's a good one that we use not infrequently, not because of accidental language creep but because there is no absolute equivalent word in English, nor in German as far as I know, given that I've heard it used by German speakers too.

It certainly does, as you so amply demonstrate, given that in English the last two are called a circumflex and an acute accent.

And user names haven't been able to use anything other than standard alphabetic characters for some years now, although TBF they could have done back in 2007 when cremebrulee first joined.

I'm beginning to empathize with the pain of the French and their worry for their language.

I just learnt, the Germans - although first time I see this and on wikipedia - even made "Zirkumflex" out of it.
Gosh, my ears literally hurt after all this.

acute accent. LOL. As in acute ear-bleeding or as in you have a cute accent?
As the translation of aigu is actually high notes, high-pitched, sharp, squeaky, skirl. Which reminds me it's been a long time since I heard and English-speaker speak French. Must be painful?

How do Deutschies say "circumcision"? And I bet circa stays.

Nope, sorry.
Beschneidung. And more professional (=not really German) Vasektomie.

And a "circa" in this context makes me feel very uneasy
Where ever you saw a circa in circumcision.

It is obvious.

But here:

Cca -> around

g'schnipsle

Yes, that wonderful German false friend "sympathisch". I tell them to use "nice" or "likeable"

That‘s not completely true. Vasektomie is the procedure to sterilize males. The correct, but hardly used „Fremdwort“ is „Zirkumzision“.

Yes, in our house it's "knife" - we pronounce it as if it were a German word.

Buffaaaaalo! Either in tomato version or the bull. One Romanian friend of mine in VTech always made me laugh on purpose with his Buffaaaaalos.

Now that both my kids have passed their Cambridge exams, we have all gone back to speaking Irish English... I suppose it’s a bit different when you grow up in a place where having two names for stuff is normal and you automatically use Irish phrases in certain situations just because that’s what everyone does.

After thirty years I don’t really notice when someone speaks to me in Swiss German, it has sort of all merged into one.

And don't ever think of adding French to that mix... it gets nasty . Luckily I forgot enough French in order to speak Spanish and Italian separately and semi-properly...

My French is clean
My brain seems to keep it totally separate.

I use déconcentrer in english quite a bit but my favorite is je suis calé, so calé is in my english too