@[email protected] to Linguistics Humor • 1 year agoAs a native English speaker with some French, I've always wanted to open a food market and call it Fat Cherries.message-square2fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up117arrow-down1message-squareAs a native English speaker with some French, I've always wanted to open a food market and call it Fat Cherries.@[email protected] to Linguistics Humor • 1 year agomessage-square2fedilinkfile-text
English - Groceries: The commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery. Plural form of grocery. Multiple retailers of groceries. French - gros ceries: gros = fat (big) cerises = cherries
minus-squaremerde alorslink5•1 year ago“gros” means more than just “fat” and it’s still the word at the root (or head) of the grosserie . Commerce en gros, wholesale. also, cerise is female. you would need to say grosse + the plural: grosses cerises 🤷
minus-square@Hanabielink2•1 year agoHe did mention he’s an English native, though, he’d likely butcher the pronunciation so it sounds like Fat Cherries 😃
“gros” means more than just “fat” and it’s still the word at the root (or head) of the grosserie . Commerce en gros, wholesale.
also, cerise is female. you would need to say grosse + the plural: grosses cerises 🤷
He did mention he’s an English native, though, he’d likely butcher the pronunciation so it sounds like Fat Cherries 😃