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Best house name
Ian Jelf wrote:
Someone on (the much missed) Radio 4 programme "Home Truths" told a story of seeing a house in the North of Scotland whose name was the Spanish for "To Let". They conjectured that the owners had seen such a sign on a house while on holiday in Spain and thought it was a "nice name", not appreciating its meaning. Actually that reminds me of our next door neighbours, when I was a young lad. In a fit of supreme pretension, they named their bungalow "La Baraque", thinking that it was French for "the bungalow". They were mortified when, after many years, it was pointed out to them that "baraque" is French for a shed or hut and is even used in the context "Quelle baraque" to mean "what a dump"! |
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