Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:58:09 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spellings Message-ID: <v04220812b5178e0ea63f@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000410062050.0418d660@localhost> References: <Rahul Siddharthan's message of "Mon, 10 Apr 2000 00:01:50 %2B0530"> <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <20000407202917.A1417@sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in> <xzpitxtq1k5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000407233952.A1610@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> <8cq06a$1le0$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <20000410000149.B1241@theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in> <4.2.2.20000410062050.0418d660@localhost>
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At 6:21 AM -0600 2000/4/10, Brett Glass wrote:
>>Germans and Danes also spell "chauffeur" as "chauffeur".
>
> The Germans also call French fried potatoes "Pommes Frites"
> ("fried potatoes" in French).
They're also called that over here in Belgium, where they were
invented. ;-)
And you know how sensitive Belgians can be when they are confused
with the French. ;-) ;-)
Maybe this explains why the Germans decided to adopt that term?
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