[Magdalen] Quebec City.

[Jay Weigel]

One of my fellow jewelry designers is from Vermont, nee Lebel. Her
grandmother is Canadien and always spoke to them in French....she says one
of the first things she remembers about that grandmother is "En français,
mes enfants!" She admits to cussing in French around her children (ages 23
months and 7 months) but says she knows they will soon figure out she is
saying saying something naughty. She just doesn't plan to teach them what
it is! She figures they may pick up some "defensive French" sooner or
later, though. (I introduced her to that term)

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:55 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> My father was born in Andover  MA and grew up in Newburyport
> and he didn't learn to speak English until grammar school.
>
> His was the generation that was beaten by the teachers if they
> lapsed into French on the playground.
>
> He was also of the generation of paratroopers dropped into
> France because they could speak da lingo.
>
> Skills. Can't live with them. Can't live without them.
>
> I think there's still a French language radio station in Fall River
> or Providence. Picked it up one afternoon driving up from Rhode
> Island.
>
> I love the road signs on Cape Breton:
>
>     Rue
> Prudence
>     Road
>
> -M
>
> On Saturday, January 10, 2015, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com>
> wrote:
>
> > There are English speaking villages between the St Lawrence and Us
> border.
> > You go close to the border in Vermont (as I remember) and Maine and the
> > signs are bilingual English and French--probably elsewhere. There are a
> > number French Canadian settlements in Mass and NH. Our lead at the IRS
> > didn't speak English until she went to first grade. Now this is  a 100
> > years ago; but my father did not speak English as his first language
> altho
> >
> >
>