English to French translation

Langue sauce piquante

November 30, 2004

Thanks to Transblawg and Language Hat for mentioning Langue sauce piquante, a very promising new blog written (in French! Hurrah!) by Le Monde's proofreaders. They talk about language, expressions, words, in fact, everything I like. Their most recent entry on sushi tells us that this word used to mean the liquid used to pickle convicts' heads, that were then shown to the public.

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