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The last post is the WINNER!

Kathryn

It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Hope they're working on the problem.

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And BAM, it's all back on.
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
English is winning the language war albeit slowly.

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Not really, there are about 40,000 words in English borrowed from French. Most are spelled the same some slightly different, most are pronounced different, some the same.

You have a few thousand to go before winning the language war.
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
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Not really, there are about 40,000 words in English borrowed from French. Most are spelled the same some slightly different, most are pronounced different, some the same.

You have a few thousand to go before winning the language war.
You? It's we not oui. You as an British resident of France are spreading English by merely existing there.
 

Wu Wei

ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
Like
Garage, police, entrepreneur, champagne, omelette, sabotage, machine , chauffeur, technique, etc, etc, etc
like (comme)
chaussure, bière, gaufre, pomme de terre, voiture, morse, difficile, aléatoire, blague

Besides, all of those you listed, the French pronounce them wrong......
 

Stevicus

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
Like
Garage, police, entrepreneur, champagne, omelette, sabotage, machine , chauffeur, technique, etc, etc, etc

Sometimes it might be the same word, but pronounced differently.

There's a funny line from Kelly's Heroes where Carroll O'Connor plays an American general and is told about some fighting reported near a French town called "Clermont." His aide is pronouncing it using French pronunciation rules (with a silent T at the end), but the general says "Do you mean Clermont" and pronouncing it using American English pronunciation and then scolding him for not pronouncing it correctly.

And then there was this guy:


 
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