Libération has a sex blog cleverly entitled Les 400 culs (the four hundred bottoms). From the latest entry I learnt the French words for wasp and guinea-pig (la guépe and le cobaye).

EDIT: The Hoosiers' singer's chemistry teacher was the drummer in Sailor!

In the mid 20th century, the International Phonetic Association published their journal Le Maître Phonétique in the internationally-beloved language of French, but for added confusion it was represented phonetically in the International Phonetic Alphabet.


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Christina Aguilera isn't coming to Scotland on her new tour. On the positive side, neither is Steven Seagal and his band (I guess when you're too old to do kung-fu and all your muscles have turned to flab, you have to become a rock star, but do you really have to come to Britain, or tour, or perform ( Read more... )

Rose is French for blue, at least figuratively. And I'd like to know why the French think soup with cream is more intemperate and aggressive. But kudos to the dictionary that translates chochotte as "la-de-da". Does this mean that la-de-da (or la-di-da) is a proper English word, then?

For Easter this year, the BBC are planning a musical version ( Read more... )

I learnt a new French word today. In fact two: "blabla" and "blablabla". Both mean twaddle, waffle, rhubarb ( Read more... )