Word: frenchã
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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Katherine M. Dimengo ’04, a Crimson editor, is an English and American Literature and Language concentrator in Winthrop House. After attempting to learn French??which she spitefully declined to do while living in a French-speaking nation—she is traveling in Bosnia-Herzegovina...
...continued, France became the new foe in this conflict. Whether it was Congress or President George W. Bush himself, name-calling, mockery and general disrespect flew from Washington. Every media outlet picked up the news that the House of Representatives had decided to change the prefix ‘French?? to ‘Freedom’ in both its fries and its toast. Despite the amusing nature of the replacement (mocking the French always elicits a giggle), this change symbolized a more worrisome trend. More recently, Republican Jim Saxton of New Jersey proposed a ban on Pentagon...
...student protesters, who described themselves as “The Organization To Defend America,” also had to face a counter-protest of about ten “anti-anti-French?? demonstrators who began passing out pictures of the Statue of Liberty and shouting “Vive la France! Vive le Council de Securite!” before the anti-French rally had even begun...