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[Harold F. Schiffman]

GERMANY: LINGUISTS URGE FRENCH OVER ENGLISH

Recalling the American tactic of renaming French fries as freedom fries in
retaliation for France's opposition to the war in Irag, a linguists' group
called on Germans to replace commonly used English words with their French
equivalents. Armin Burkhardt, chairman of the group, Language in Politics,
said English words like ticket and O.K. should be replaced by billet and
d'accord. Another word his group says ought to be replaced is T-shirt, by
tricot.

  (Agence France-Presse)