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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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At 12:41 PM 12/24/98 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
 
>Chief?  I don't know about that.  But the language is "Franglais", and 
>the thus-named column in Punch Magazine was my first introduction to 
>the concept.

I think that frustrated Frenchmen (and French teachers) were calling
it "Franglish" long before Punch came out with the column. My first
French teacher (who was in her 60's or 70's when I had her in elementary
school in the 1960's) says that they called it that when she was little.

--Brett


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