> > And English has given you "le weekend".
>
> No, some French in France have borrowed this word. You will know that in
> Quebec, as in the rest of the Latin world, we use a native form: "fin de
> semaine" ("fin de la semaine" being the end of the week).
We borrow quite a bit: "Mon manager est en meeting." I thought moving to the
USA would give me the opportunity to only see English, but we rendezvous all
the time; must be the thing du jour.
Oh well.
YA
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