• French cut beans: haricots verts
Yep, just green beans.
• French door: porte-fenêtre
Window door. Makes sense.
• French dressing: sauce salade
Salad sauce. Makes sense. It's also absolutely nothing like that gloopy orange stuff. French dressing is usually a mustard-based vinaigrette.
• French fries: les frites
"Frieds," short for fried potatoes. In America they evolved skinnier than they are in France though.
• French toast: pain perdu
Lost bread? OK.
• Pardon my French!: Pardonnez-moi l'expression!
Forgive the expression. Also makes sense.
• French kiss: un patin
That also means "skate," so I'm curious about where this came from.
• French bread: baguette
A loaf. French bread found in America isn't completely like real French bread though.
In conclusion, most things we call French aren't really French.
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Peregrinations
plural noun, archaic
"Such fascinating peregrinations you've experienced, Mr. Soo!"
Travels, wanderings, journeys, globe-trotting, voyages, expeditions, odysseys, trips, treks, excursions, perambulations.
- The Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
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"Voyager, c'est naître et mourir à chaque instant."
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- Saint Augustine
"Voyager, c'est naître et mourir à chaque instant."
- Victor Hugo
"Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."
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4 comments:
Nice!! This more than answers my question about french toast:)
What about the hairstyles, French twist and French braid?
Do the French turn the tables and call anything "American" or "British" without much logical justification?
How long are you going to be in France? I'm going to Spain next semester...so maybe we could hook up some weekend in there?...
oh..and in case you don't know who that was..it was 10^6.
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