Sally Redux

Largo

I taught 'core' French language for much of my career to uni-lingual English speakers. For the last several years , I was in a school where there was a French Immersion stream located on the same floor as myself. For cross ventilation , I always had my door open. I noticed while I was teaching that three of the FI teachers from Quebec originally, were often standing and listening at the door. I was somewhat perturbed thinking I was doing something wrong. Eventually, I asked them about this. The most senior of the FI teachers told me that they had decided that they should be speaking French more like the way I did.

MillieF

Thank you so much. I will remember it for next time I have a strop

BristolUK

Quite a few are good for "non official" uses.

I like but I've used it for almost anything other than unsure.

I think.

Oink

Canadians are fat.

Shard

You've been away too long methinks...

UK among worst in western Europe for level of overweight and obese people | Society | The Guardian

Vulcanoid

UK and Canada are about on a par here.

OECD put Britain at 24.7% obese and Canada at 25.4%

WHO say 61.5% of Brits are overweight or obese, and 60.5% of Canadians

Shard

Good links. From figure 2 in the OECD chart it looks like England has a higher rate of obesity now than the USA 20 years ago. Scary!

plasticcanuck

I suspect that's because the Brits came later to the fast food industry. Once available to them they embraced it wholeheartedly.

Shard

I agree. We can blame the Americans for much of this obesity problem.

Oink

I wasn't making a comparison, it was just a statement of fact.

Shard

Ok. I suppose I took the thread title too literally Anyway, there aren't any fat people in Vancouver !

Oink

Want a bet?

plasticcanuck

So Brits are also fat?

tweed_wearer

And they call the Winter Olympics "the Olympics".

"We won 20 gold medals in the Olympics"
"No you didn't....ah"