On Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 5:33:22 PM UTC-6, Bruce wrote:
> In article >,
> says...
> >
> > On 2016-08-13 6:24 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> > > On 8/13/2016 6:17 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> > >> On 2016-08-13 5:37 PM, Roy wrote:
> > >>> On Thursday, August 11, 2016 at 3:26:55 AM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
> > >>>> "Bruce" > wrote in message
> > >>
> > >>> But printed on cans it means "GREEN BEANS" you nitwit, no matter how
> > >>> slender, green, round, tender, crisper or longer they may be. That
> > >>> applies no matter what variety of green beans they may be.
> > >>>
> > >>> p.s. Don't thank Brucie for anything...he's just another spammer
> > >>> trying to stir up trouble. ====
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I just got back from a short vacation in Quebec. These green beans, no
> > >> matter how relatively long and thin they were, were all haricots verts.
> > >
> > > Hmmm, don't they speak French in Quebec?
> >
> > Yes, most of them do, and that is why they call green beans haricots verts.
>
> French speakers call all green beans haricots verts, because haricot
> vert means green bean, but when most English speakers use the term, they
> mean 'a variety of green beans that is longer, thinner, crisper, and
> more tender than "standard" green beans'.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_bean
>
> I imagine that this works slightly differently in Canada, where you have
> French speaking people and bilingual labelling, so that "haricots
> verts" can simply mean "green beans", without referring to a specific
> type, like it does in other English speaking countries.
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What do you mean by "like it does in other English speaking countries"? You "imagine" all this without seeing an American label or an Australian label.
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