A funny story happened to my friend. She came to the United States on a guest visa, but decided to work and arranged a kind of maid in a estate with a local wealthy. She spoke English, but wasn’t quite running. There began some persecution for hiring illegal people for housework, and the owners say to her: When you answer someone, don't say that you work, say that you are a house guest (guest of this house). It is spoken as “guest”.



Here they went on vacation, and she accidentally turned on an alarm system that automatically calls the police with a message that the house is being invaded. Police are calling by phone.

She answers:

Hello, Mr. Gold’s residence, nobody home. (Hello, the residence of Mr. Gold, no one at home)

And who are you? (And you are who?)

I am a ghost house. I am a home ghost!



This means confusing the pronunciation with the Russian "guest". He says, the whole department was stuck to look at a ghost that responds on the phone!