Mr Libido Incognito wrote:
> Doug Kanter wrote on 26 Jan 2006 in rec.food.cooking
>
> > > Wouldn't that be haricots vert...green beans ...not haricot
> > > verts...greens bean.
> >
> > Not sure. In Spanish, a plural noun gets a plural adjective. Frijoles
> > negros - black beans. Perro negro - black dog. What about French?
> >
> I know not...that's why I asked.
>
French, Spanish and the other Latin-derived languages want agreement of
number between nouns and their adjectives. So haricots verts plural,
haricot vert singular. -aem