I don't want to get too hung up about this, but...

[desperance]

From an otherwise-serious recipe pdf for baguettes and ciabatta:

"If you've never heard the term before, a poolish is a pre-mixed 'starter' of flour, water and a touch of yeast ... And the provenance of the word itself? Poolish (pronounced pool-eesh, accent on the second syllable) is the French word for Polish, as in Poland, which is where the French believed this type of starter originated."

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[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Not in any French I was taught. Polonais. I suspect that Cherry Shoe cleaners have snuck into your recipe.

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

It's not totally wrong, but it's a rather sloppy way of presenting things. The pool part could indeed come from the way French people said Pologne in olden times (Poullaine, pronounced pool-en), but the -ish ending looks suspiciously English to me.