There's a similar story about you'll hear from tour guides in East Jerusalem – there's a neighborhood there called at-tel al-faransiya (in Arabic) or ha-giv'a h

There's a similar story about you'll hear from tour guides in East Jerusalem – there's a neighborhood there called at-tel al-faransiya (in Arabic) or ha-giv'a ha-tzarfatit (in Hebrew), both translate "The French [people] Hill". When your tour passes by that neighborhood, your guide would surely tell you that it is actually named after the British general John French who was stationed there, and a similar mistake as the one above made it change nationality. Everyone laughs, and continue with the tour. But those that would later search for general French woill find he didn't serve with his Majesty's forces in Palestine – and that the hill is named after the French monks from the Monastery of St Anne…