Re: CHAT: French expressions in English (Re: OT CHAT:Asperger'ssyndrome)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 24, 2000, 3:35 |
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At 22:32 23/06/00 -0500, you wrote:
>No one mentioned "toot sweet," which is, of course, an Anglification of
>"tout a suite." Acute over the a, of course.
>
Wouldn't it be the French expression "à tout de suite"? 'tout à suite'
doesn't exist in French, and 'toot sweet' maps nicely with the
pronunciation of "tout de suite".
Christophe Grandsire
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