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."

Hey, calm down --- Now, what did you say again?

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

Unable to raise enough money for a trip to Paris, the Bartlesville High French Club had to settle for three days in Tulsa.

The Vineyard

Campaign for Plain English

Thru versus Through Traffic

Torturing the English Language

"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.'

Boneheads! I never said I was bringing ten condiments!

Assault 'n' Vinegar

Fabrique en Francais (Made in France).

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Punctuation Police

A Copy Editor and His Dog

Backfire

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

What's normal?

'The Questioner'

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

Man packing suitcase with French vocabulary

"There's only one 'L' in colosseum."

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

Lesser known greek gods,

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

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