Shopping and money

The second list you need on the ground, and the one with the most fixed phrases in it. One word here looks entirely familiar and shares not a single sense with its English twin. Le rayon is the aisle you walk down, the department of a shop and the shelf itself — c’est au rayon fromages points you to a part of the supermarket, not to a shelving unit. The same word is the ray of the sun, the spoke of a bicycle wheel and the radius of a circle, because all four are a line running out from a centre: the shelves radiate from the aisle. English borrowed the spelling for one thing only, the viscose textile, which has no connection to any of this and was coined as a trade name. So the word a shopper needs most often in this list is the one that will look most like an old friend and turn out to be a stranger.