I cooked tonight’s fish (Cajun Blackened Cod) in the frying pan in the oven, as chefs often do.
Then, later,when dinner was over I went to tidy up and discovered that the pan handle was still extremely hot, I exclaimed * * * * ! (naturally) and then answered to Sile’s asking “what was wrong ?” said “It’s already hot !”
I don’t think she even noticed but it struck me that I made no sense.

What I had done was to think, just a bit, in French where the word “encore” means both “still” (as in yet) and “already” (as in so soon).

Of course we all know (just to throw the cat among the pigeons) that to shout “Encore” at a concert is to ask for the song to be song again- a word of French we all proudly holler- except the the French don’t- they say “Bis !” which strictly speaking means “twice”.