Following our last 'le mot juste' newsletter, one of our correspondents was good enough to send on the following letter from the Times:

Sir,

Some years back I dated an American who was a graduate student at the Sorbonne. When in France, he would try to improve his conversation skills by attending American movies with French subtitles.

One, a Western, featured a cavalry officer and his men charging up a hill where the Indians and their chief waited silently. The officer greeted the chief who raised his hand and said: "How!" This was translated in the subtitles as "Enchanté".

Kind regards


Alan Paterson
ampers&
020 7379 5869
www.wherewordswork.com
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