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Add the word "French" to the arrangement and things only get more convoluted. Vanilla, as you very well understand, is simply a spice; more often than not, "French" vanilla is a marketing play.

If you’re French, it seems that you shouldn’t be using so much English in pursuit of your goals. It’s a feature of an active language, that it will readily assimilate words from others.

Tricoteuse - roughly pronounced tree-koe-tuzz - is the French term for a woman who knits, or a knitting woman. The masculine version would be tricoteur. While the word may appear to have a simple ...