06-23-2016, 09:20 AM
(06-23-2016, 09:02 AM)ioc.aussie Wrote: Frogs Frenchmen, properly Parisians. So called from their ancient heraldic device, which was three frogs or three toads. "Qu'en disent les grenouilles? " - What will the frogs (people of Paris) say? - was in 1791 a common court phrase at Versailles. There was a point in the pleasantry when Paris was a quagmire, called Lutetia (mud-land) because, like frogs or toads, they lived in mud, but now it is quite an anomaly.
So all dictionaries are wrong. Yeah right. And in context you meant nothing derogatory. Right.

