And English gets the gold!

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Aug 9 03:29:32 UTC 2012


A headline in a French-Basque newspaper:

" 'Ma Tribu,' une nouvelle marque d'autocollants _made_ en Pays Basque"

But why didn't they replace _autocollants_ with "stickers"?

Younverknow.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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-Mark Twain

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