Through our English language, we have our own ways of tripping up the French!

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Now and again, we have the means of taking our revenge against the French for being superior about how we speak their language.

Today, I heard a laugh out loud example of a French person making a mistake that is a bit outside of the usual errors.

Fabrice Santoro, a French tennis commentator, speaking in English was at today's match between 2 players.  Now Santoro speaks fluent English with an attractive French accent and I would consider him good.

It was very blowy at Paris today and you could see the way the wind was swaying trees and making ball trajectories a bit erratic.  When one of the players miss hit a ball, Santoro asked, "is it wind?".  I laughed out loud and thought well, for once, in a sentence like that in English, you need the definite article.

Big difference between is it wind and is it THE wind, surely?    

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I love these things, they simply amuse me a lot......... and what can I say..........I speak fluent french 'a ma facon'......[Www] and have made funnier and far worse faux pas in french than that. Which I must add, I can still laugh about.