To: WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:10:31 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] a French faux pas, finally fixed
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

"For nearly a century the French dictionary Larousse (a sort of Gallic
Webster's) defined "Greek" as meaning, among other things, roué, fripon,
escroc—1) rakehell, 2) swindler, 3) crook. For nearly a century the Greek
government has bombarded the Quai d'Orsay with complaints, to no avail.
That, said Larousse stiffly, is the way Frenchmen talk, and that is the
way they must be reported."

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,815605,00.html

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