France’s New Dictionary.
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Hugh Schofield of BBC News reports on French lexicography: Forty years
after they began the task – and nearly four hundred years after receiving
their firs...
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[telephone conversation]
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Shop: Hello. You Me Bum Bum Train!
Caller: Uh ... beg pardon?
Shop: You Me Bum Bum Train!
Caller: Creep.
[hangs up]
That must happen
DeleteIt reminds me...there used to be a Chinese takeaway place in Camden.Jolly good chow mein, but a disconcerting exhortation to "go back for noodle boys."
ReplyDeleteoops! what they said was : "go back door for noodle boys."
ReplyDeleteSo appetising!
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