On Aug 21, 6:13*pm, Chemiker > wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:49:27 -0700 (PDT), Lynn from Fargo Ografmorffig
>
> > wrote:
> >On Aug 21, 1:49*pm, "cybercat" > wrote:
> >>http://www.foodclassics.com/re3487/recipes.php
>
> >> Google "embrochette recipes." There are plenty more. Here's to following
> >> Goomba's petty, anal lead.
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>
> >I don't care how many damn hits you got. *It's not a word.
> >Embrouillier IS a word.
> >A verb: to tangle up; *to embroil; *to mix up; to confuse
> >Larousse's * French/English - English/ French *Dictionary
>
> Um, Lynn....
>
> In this part of the country, Cajun, "embrochette" is a
> word. It is a dialectical variant of "en brochette",
> of which term I think you are already acquainted.
>
> Cajun french is different from Continental French,
> so much so, that in LA you can buy dictionaries
> which detail the etymology of Cajun words. I'm
> not talking touristy paperbacks, here. I'm talking
> Hardbound books 2-3 inches thick....scholarly
> works.
>
> One who visited here from the Continent would be
> totally amazed at, what they would call, the
> *******ization of the French language. Yet the
> (shall I call it a) dialect is intelligible to
> people all through Louisiana and East texas.
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Mais oui! Like French-Canadian. See also Creole and the many Pidgin
dialects. As many here would say, "Mo hottah, mo bettah!" - used to
be the name of a catalog company that sold hot sauces from everywhere.

Pardonnez moi,
Lynn en Fargo