Showing posts with label French. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French. Show all posts
2/15/11
8/10/10
A Who's Who Kind of Question
Labels:
Borrowed Words,
Foreign Words,
French,
Language,
Titles,
Translation,
Trivia,
Word Meanings
Name an example of someone who uses (or used) a nom de plume?
(hint: your answer will have 2 parts)
6/8/10
A Toothsome Question
Labels:
Borrowed Words,
Flowers,
French,
Language,
Lion,
Taxonomy,
Translation,
Trivia
What flower got is name because the French thought its leaves look like lion's teeth?
5/5/10
Do we have Clearance, Clarence? Roger, Roger!
Labels:
7700,
Aeronautics,
Borrowed Words,
French,
Help,
Holiday,
Pilot,
SOS,
Trivia
What English-language term that pilots use, and shares its name with a spring holiday, comes from the French "M'Aider"?
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