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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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