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| Franglais: Your favourites | Franglais: Your favourites |
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| After our tribute to the late pioneer of Franglais, Miles Kington, here is a selection of your favourite Franglais moments. | After our tribute to the late pioneer of Franglais, Miles Kington, here is a selection of your favourite Franglais moments. |
| Whether it's in the field of food, transportation or about the house, readers offered hundreds of priceless examples of Franglais. | Whether it's in the field of food, transportation or about the house, readers offered hundreds of priceless examples of Franglais. |
| There are plenty of phrases from Canada, one place where English and French clash to comic effect. | There are plenty of phrases from Canada, one place where English and French clash to comic effect. |
| FOOD AND DINK | FOOD AND DINK |
| Overhead on overnight ferry to Dunkirk, "Quelle est le French pour gateaux?"PAF, Dover | Overhead on overnight ferry to Dunkirk, "Quelle est le French pour gateaux?"PAF, Dover |
| "Veux-tu des toasts avec les oeufs?", (want bread with your eggs?).Gilles Talbot, Montreal, Canada | |
| My grandad always used to call milk "cow juice", and this has naturally become "jus de vache" - confusez le hell out of les locales...Jem, Bretigny sur Orge, la France | My grandad always used to call milk "cow juice", and this has naturally become "jus de vache" - confusez le hell out of les locales...Jem, Bretigny sur Orge, la France |
| J'ai remplace le strap de fan dans le moteur Au revoir Mister Franglais | J'ai remplace le strap de fan dans le moteur Au revoir Mister Franglais |
| Deux biers s'il vous plait, as vite as vous aime - two beers please, as quick as you likeLloyd Housley, Auchenblae, Scotland | Deux biers s'il vous plait, as vite as vous aime - two beers please, as quick as you likeLloyd Housley, Auchenblae, Scotland |
| Two chien chaud and a coke s'il vous plait - two hotdogs and a coke pleaseGraham Deere, Wales | Two chien chaud and a coke s'il vous plait - two hotdogs and a coke pleaseGraham Deere, Wales |
| Said by my friend after looking at his typically French glass of beer with a big layer of froth on top "Je voudrais un top-up".Rachel, Liverpool, UK | Said by my friend after looking at his typically French glass of beer with a big layer of froth on top "Je voudrais un top-up".Rachel, Liverpool, UK |
| TRANSPORT | TRANSPORT |
| J'ai remplace le strap de fan dans le moteur - I have replaced the fan belt in the car.WJ Feltrin, Toronto, Canada | J'ai remplace le strap de fan dans le moteur - I have replaced the fan belt in the car.WJ Feltrin, Toronto, Canada |
| Mon tire a un flat (pretty self-explanatory)Julie, Montreal, Canada | Mon tire a un flat (pretty self-explanatory)Julie, Montreal, Canada |
| In France, it is written "Stop", in Quebec, "Arret".Rick James, Aix-en-Provence, France (currently) - Vancouver, Canada | In France, it is written "Stop", in Quebec, "Arret".Rick James, Aix-en-Provence, France (currently) - Vancouver, Canada |
| IN THE HOUSE | IN THE HOUSE |
| As children we used to fill our "chaud l'eau bouteilles" (hot water bottles)Dot, Glasgow, Ecosse | As children we used to fill our "chaud l'eau bouteilles" (hot water bottles)Dot, Glasgow, Ecosse |
| My father was working in the Elevator business in Montreal, and tried to ask the building manager for a tool, the name of which he didn't know in French. After he had described what the tool looked like and what it was used for, the building manager exclaimed: "ah, vous avez besoin d'un pipe-wrench!"Rebecca, Taipei, Taiwan | My father was working in the Elevator business in Montreal, and tried to ask the building manager for a tool, the name of which he didn't know in French. After he had described what the tool looked like and what it was used for, the building manager exclaimed: "ah, vous avez besoin d'un pipe-wrench!"Rebecca, Taipei, Taiwan |
| One wonderful piece of Denglish. The wife of an army friend going into a German hardware store and asking, in her broad Yorkshire accent 'Haben sie Curtain 'ooks?'Steve Allen, Iowa USA | One wonderful piece of Denglish. The wife of an army friend going into a German hardware store and asking, in her broad Yorkshire accent 'Haben sie Curtain 'ooks?'Steve Allen, Iowa USA |
| GENERAL | GENERAL |
| Some examples heard regularly around these parts : "le fighting spirit", "le one-man show","un tennis man, des tennis mans", "un sandwich, des sandwichs".Joe S., Corbeil, near Paris | Some examples heard regularly around these parts : "le fighting spirit", "le one-man show","un tennis man, des tennis mans", "un sandwich, des sandwichs".Joe S., Corbeil, near Paris |
| A favourite interjection from the editor of a Parisian fashion magazine: "Regarde! C'est une autre fashion victime!" Jessica Volz, Boston, Massachusetts, US | A favourite interjection from the editor of a Parisian fashion magazine: "Regarde! C'est une autre fashion victime!" Jessica Volz, Boston, Massachusetts, US |
| The best I ever heard was from a schoolgirl on a trip to France (related to me by their teacher). She was being chatted up by a French lad she didn't fancy. Her words were "sur votre bicyclette, mate".Rob Slack, London | The best I ever heard was from a schoolgirl on a trip to France (related to me by their teacher). She was being chatted up by a French lad she didn't fancy. Her words were "sur votre bicyclette, mate".Rob Slack, London |
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