All this time waiting to end up with ridiculous names like "Grand Est" and worst of all "Hauts de France". Now I've heard they genuinely want to rename PACA into "Région Sud"
Seriously, what's it gonna be next? Corsica as "Bas à droite de France"? Guyanne as "France du loin"?
Couldn't agree more Relox84, what are they doing? Before long the day will be divided into ten decimal hours, there'll be ten-day weeks, uniform 30-day months - renamed so that December is called "frosty, January "snowy", February "rainy", March "windy" and so on - and there will be a demand that the whole world use kilometres: shocking. On a more (or perhaps less) serious note, now there are only 13 regions, perhaps it is time to include l'outre-mer in the (English version) quiz.
For those who are wondering what he is talking about, it is one of the wonderful ideas of the Revolution era: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar#Calendar_design
I have never been to France, nor do I know much about it. I guessed all regions on my first try simply from my knowledge of history and geography, many of the names have little hints like that.
started with the ones I knew, and then using brain to correctly guess the rest :) Like I know where Loire and Rhone rivers are, so the rest was just pure luck :D
All of these are what the regions are known as in English. The fact that some of them retain French orthography doesn't make them 'French' in this context.
Yes, it is the same in French. We say Nouvelle-Orléans et Nouveau-Mexique but we keep New York and New Jersey.
Probably because York and Jersey have no traduction in French unlike Mexico and Orleans (well, this one is originally French).
I guess it is the same for the French regions. The ones that have an English name are old and have a big history (Corsica, Brittany, Normandy...), but those who stick with the French name are new (Grand Est, Hauts-de-France, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté... well this one is tricky because Bourgogne and Franche-Comté have a long history but now that there are together, it belongs to the new names, hence no Burgundy-Franche-Comté).
Unfortunately, from a geography buff point of view, France now has only 13 regions. Need to update. Thanks!
Seriously, what's it gonna be next? Corsica as "Bas à droite de France"? Guyanne as "France du loin"?
In french (i'm french) we don't say "brittany" "corsica" or "normandy".
We say "bretagne" "corse" and "normandie"
- Brittany is "Bretagne"
- Corsica is "Corse"
- Normandy is "Normandie"
It can be a little bit confusing
Anyway, it was a good quizz ;)
Probably because York and Jersey have no traduction in French unlike Mexico and Orleans (well, this one is originally French).
I guess it is the same for the French regions. The ones that have an English name are old and have a big history (Corsica, Brittany, Normandy...), but those who stick with the French name are new (Grand Est, Hauts-de-France, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté... well this one is tricky because Bourgogne and Franche-Comté have a long history but now that there are together, it belongs to the new names, hence no Burgundy-Franche-Comté).
Signed: a Parisian.