French Pillows

"Fer 'Lack of participation' in French class. You?"

French Club - Bloggez Vous Francais?

Chat Show, "Bonsoir. Comment Allez-Vous?"

"Remember the golden rule: more buzzwords, less real words."

"Bert, I'm confused. What happens after we circle the wagons, tighten our belts and walk a mile in our customer's shoes? Is that when the chickens come home to roost?"

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"And the last little piggy cried, 'Oui, oui, oui' all the way home."

Solicitor speaks legal jargon and has a translator who tells client: 'You haven't a hope!'

The Vineyard

Campaign for Plain English

Thru versus Through Traffic

"Whenever he shows up everything turns to crap!"

"You'll love this. It's swarthy yet munificent, didactic and gregarious with hints of dogma."

'I can't force jocose if I'm not feeling it.'

"The good news is that we do have a little wiggle room."

Backfire

Punctuation Police

Assault 'n' Vinegar

Fabrique en Francais (Made in France).

Jean-Paul Sartre

A Copy Editor and His Dog

What's normal?

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

Lesser known greek gods,

Man packing suitcase with French vocabulary

"If Google Translate is correct, they want our women and our cattle."

'The Questioner'

'Plastic corks, then screw caps; when they come out with a flip-n-sip Chateau Petrus I'm hanging up my tastevin.'

"No, I really thought each sentence ended with an emoji!"

'I've been called some mean things as a baby boomer, but 'Pig in the Python' really hurts.'

T. S. Eliot Meets Beavis And Butthead

'Just follow these simple instructions.'

"He's sworn never to say Boudicca, ShrOwsbury, whoM, or narrative."