PoA in French

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: PoA in French
Reply To: [Yahoo! #7308] Re: PoA in French
Date: 8/19/00 5:57 pm  (ET)

> I can't believe someone here talked about HP in French and I missed it !

Oh, yes, Besides Blaise listing the different names the characters have
in French than in English, I told of bugging my friend Lee to look
up all kinds of words in her assorted English-French, French-English
dictionaries, which told us that 'wand' is 'baguette' and 'staff' is
'baton', which (if true) spoils the name of Beauxbatons. To me as an
Anglophone, 'baguette' is an unsliced loaf of crusty bread and possibly
also a facetted cutting of gemstone.