The most obvious tricky word in this week's extracts is Gymnasts /džymnasc/, because if you don't think twice, you could fall into the trap of associating this word with a kind of secondary school, whereas in English it is only connected with a discipline of physical exercises. The Greek word "gymnos" means "naked", so the original meaning of "gymnastics" was "naked training", which meant doing physical exercises to develop bodily fitness and sporting performance. The place for doing these exercises is a "gymnasium" /džymnej-zjem/, and in English this only means a sports-hall.

The idea of "mental training for perfection of the intellect" developed around the year 1700, especially in Germany, so the idea of an academic high school preparing pupils for university studies, called "Gymnasium" /gymnázium/, comes from there. Normally it's English words that develop new meanings away from the original, thus becoming tricky, but this time it's the turn of Slovak.