I used to think “soupçon” was a French word for crouton and I used it as the French word for crouton for a long time and nobody stopped me.
Soupçon actually means “suspicion” and the reason nobody called me out on this is because I would use the word to imply the idea of something sprinkled on top of something else ala croutons. If someone said, “A soupçon of homoeroticism,” I thought it meant “Someone sprinkled homoeroticism on this story like croutons on a delightful Caesar salad.”
I wrote multiple essays that used soupçon as a noun with this translation in mind and I got a degree and this haunts me.
There’s no point to this post, it’s just very important to me that you know that I can be quite stupid
