[Ads-l] "Anglench"?
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Sep 26 00:17:26 UTC 2015
In a letter to nytimes.com:
"... these fractious _l'enfants terrible_ ..."
Apparently, the writer knows just enough French, off the top of his head,
to be aware that "enfant terribles" is wrong, but not much else.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain
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