Ceramics and pottery

Thirty-fourth on this list is a word an English reader will recognise instantly and place completely wrong. La gazette in a French pottery is a lidded box of fireclay: the pot goes inside it, the box goes into the kiln, and the walls keep the flame, the smoke and the falling ash off the glaze. The English name for the same object is « saggar », a word that turns up nowhere else in the language. Meanwhile English « gazette » means one thing only, a printed sheet of news, and in official use the journal in which appointments and honours are announced, which is why an officer could once be « gazetted ». French has that sense too, though it now sounds either old or playful: la gazette du village is the local paper, and c’est une vraie gazette is said of somebody who repeats every word they hear. So seven letters cover a person who cannot keep anything in and a box built to keep everything out. Nothing in the workshop sense follows from the printed one, and a reader who takes cuire en gazette as anything to do with newsprint has put paper in a kiln.