Re: Overheard on the scanner

Paul Dormer <prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I live in a cul-de-sac.  I'm told it's a term that causes hilarity when
> French people visiting this country see it on signs, as it literally
> means "arse of a bag".

I've heard the same, but the phrase once came up in conversation with a
French speaker, and to him it just meant the same as in English, a short
dead-end street.  He was French Canadian though, not French French.

He also debunked another story I had heard, that the song "Sur le pont
d'Avignon", which is taught as a children's song in French cl***** in
British schools, is in its original form rather rude.

-- 
Richard Kennaway