I think of it as a contraction...and you can call me that. But my wife, who is French Canadian, would just about claw out yer eyes if you called her a frog. And my daughter would treat you worse than that.. she is so proud of her heritage you would not want to cross her....

A lot of misinformation about French people is propogated. Check sometime how many French people were killed in wars. Popular culture suggests they ran away and were cowards. Just count the casualties. French people in Canada are so unlike English people that it is impossible for many to understand.

At the end of the day, do not call my wife, and my kids, and my in-laws, frogs. That is wrong.

Oh, and in someplaces we still call yanks, longknives. That is from the swords the officers wore which astounded the amerindians.


John Conley
Musica est vita