Booths coffee

[Gouezeri]

Could be worse... the french insist on spelling espresso with an 'x'... but maybe that is just to get around trade descriptions, cos it neither looks nor tastes like a proper espresso... trust the french to take a non-native word and screw with it!

[leecb]

Oi, that's the pot calling the kettle black, half the english language is bu**ered up french!

[CakeBoy]

Mange tout, mange tout

[Gouezeri]

Yeah well I'm half pot, half kettle so I can call myself whatever
The problem is, they will only bugger something up, precisely because it is anglo-saxon! For example, the plural of "jazzman" is "jazzmans"! Just look at what the académie française have tried to do to internet vocabulary. Whereas most anglo-saxons will take a word, keep the spelling the same, keep the meaning more or less the same, and then pretend they invented the word in the first place!
And actually the word bu**er comes from Bulgarian and bulgarus.
Cakey, my pedants hat back from the cleaner's yet?

[fred25]

Yeah well I'm half pot, half kettle so I can call myself whatever

Would you rather go for pettle or kot? I think the first one has a certain ring to it....

[Gouezeri]

Definitely more pettle, kot is too succinct

[fred25]

Or maybe a double-barrelled name, to add a touch of class?

Mr Pettle-Kot sounds good, and that way you're whole again

[Gouezeri]

In which case, can we make it M. Pettle-Kot, I hate the use of "Mr" in French, as it's not a word.

[fred25]

Monsieur Pettle-Kot does rhyme with Monsieur Hulot, though.....

(wonder what kind of shot he would pull on these holidays of his )

[CakeBoy]

Blah, blah, blah, French. Blah, blah, blah, sexual connotation {zzzzzzzz} ....... Cakey, my pedants hat back from the cleaner's yet?

Yup, 'fraid so