Rod Liddle in the Times today....
...has a few things to say about our neighbours over La Manche, to quote,
"what is the point of those awful, arrogant, people, those people still living in the 19th century and clinging like deranged limpets to their strange, disappearing lingo? Can't we just, henceforth, ignore them altogether?..."
and, "incidentally the French have also started carping about Eurostar's latest plan to use German-built Velaro trains through the Channel tunnel, on a new route which links London with Frankfurt, thus by-passing the noisome, forgotten, backwater of Paris. "Non!", said the transport minister Dominique Bussereau, utilising the only French word familiar to the rest of the world, and insisting that all the trains should be built by the French."
Comment? moi? mais non!