French in the Answers

Agreed.

Same. I eventually overcame my brain freeze on the spelling, but it took awhile.

I agree with disagreeing. If there didnt allready exist a country with the name Guyana I would be fine with it. But this only contributes to the confusion, people will never be able to get it straight. Thinking something is something else, is worse than a spelling error, I would almost say no matter how bad the spelling error is, but ofcourse there are limits. (I am thankfull for the first time I read spelling it Guyana was a mistake. It is like when you meet someone after a long while and call them by the wrong name. Like hey John ... It is Dave... -_- John is my brother.. it makes you feel very silly)

Guyana isnt correct, Guinea isnt correct, Ghana isn't correct and neither is guarana.

Are people in this thread aware that it's spelled 'Guyane' in French?

In France, just order your food "avec frites". Just never say "frites francais." You may get your butt kicked. Well...not if you are in France.

It means "fried potatoes". "Pommes frites" or just "frites" are used because, shockingly, other languages use short forms and slang as well.

We call french toast wentelteefje. And it has an unclear etymology, wentel is obviously turning, wentelen=wenden. But the 2nd part means something different nowadays, it is female dog... and that is definitely not where it comes from. An unlikely explanation is that it comes from "wentel 't even/eventjes" which means turn it for a little while. But it is more likely that teef(je) comes from an not know anymore word for a specific pastry/bread.

I was luckily not sunk quite so deep into the linguistics, and figured what it was trying to say after only a few seconds.

Pomme de terre is potato, but it takes too long to say, like everything in French.

Pomme de terre is potato, but chips/French fries are called pommes frites or just frites.

@wildcat, dont just go making stuff up. Or make it obvious that you are joking. Because otherwise others might actually believe you and spreading false "facts"...

That story generally isn't considered credible by historians.

I've always heard that behavior referred to as an *Irish* exit, not French. Interesting!

Queue enraged counters from the US nationalists...One good thing tho about jetpunk is that you get to learn some of these strange Americanisms, and the general weirdness of US culture a wee bit (strong religion, celebrity & sport & corporate & fast food & military worship, and how politics and history is reduced to remembering a few leaders and battles). Oops you get that most places actually, no offence intended!

Likely because the USA is a traditionally 'Puritan' culture, and especially compared with France, so French culture is quite often associated with the sexual or the titillating. So a lot of things have 'French' in their description more to make them sound more exciting than to actually make clear that they're French

You've missed the point of the quiz. "Chips" doesn't have the word "French" in it; no one calls them "french chips".

And it's simply not correct to say that someone from Quebec is a French speaker; believe it or not, but there are people in Quebec that don't speak English (one source I found said that it is as much as 18% of the populace).

As usual, the obvious answer is the correct one, so just go with that.

"French speaker" wouldn't be specific to Quebec. No "French" in "chips".

At first I wrote .. quebecois lol

I’ve heard of French Vanilla but I missed the French Dip answer. Though I think I’ve heard the latter term before

Never heard of... quick google search... him. I had a few minutes left and was just missing that answer, so ran through the states hoping for a hit.