12/30/2023 0 Comments French vocab![]() One who lives in UK), for goodness sake wait Thus maitre d’hotel becomes maitre “dee” inĮnglish. Words (ie – resto = restaurant in France), and Here – I’m doing this on a laptop without the (btw – I apologise for the lack of accents Of what happens to French words when theyįind their way into the English language. The manicure technique was names by an American in Hollywood in 1970 – the adjective “French” is pure marketing here.Īnd you’re spot on with your descriptions ![]() Oh and, by the way, “French manicure” in France is… “ une French manucure,” in a typical mix of French and English here. Le pain = “bread”, la douleur = “(being in) pain”! Le pain de campagne (literally “countryside bread / campaign bread”).French bread in boulangeries is crispier and crunchier.īut also, of course, there are also plainly too many types of bread in France! What’s called “ French bread” in the US is usually a type of squishy bread that you can’t find in France. But later, for many fascinating reasons that are too long for this blog post, French kings wanted to display their wealth instead with majestic palaces of light and expensive glass and mirrors – which fits perfectly the design of a French window, a door made out of windows.įrench bread doesn’t exist in France. Previous fortresses needed to be military defenses, with heavy doors and small windows. We never call them “ fenêtres françaises” or anything.īut actually, it seems that the story behind it is that French kings went from medieval strongholds to Renaissance palaces like Versailles. I had no idea these “door-windows” had the slightest French origin. → Une porte (= a door) + une fenêtre (= a window) = a French window Un haricot (= a bean) begins with “ un h aspiré” (= an inhaled “h”), meaning there’s no liaison between “ un” and “ haricot.” Contrary to “ u n hôtel” for instance.įrench window / French door = Une porte-fenêtre It’s a fascinating topic but for another time. They got called “French beans” in English in the XIXth century, probably because of English people discovering French cuisine. → These come from America and got popular all across Europe. ![]() So I can’t say for sure that they’re French.įrench beans (green beans) = Les haricots verts → There’s an ongoing rivalry between Belgium and Northern France over who actually created the French fries.
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