English rocks French

[Dan Goodman]

Dennis Baron wrote:
>
> There's a new post on the Web of Language:
>
> English rocks French
>
> www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage

Yes; the language of "redingote" and "biftek" must be protected from
foreign words.

If this goes on, "choucroute" might be renamed to something German.

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