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Top 10 Funniest French Names of Flowers (Part DEUX) Posted by on Jan 23, 2013

We pick up today from where we left last time: The Top 10 Funniest French Names of Flowers! Here’s the link to Part 1, if you missed it. * * * NUMÉRO CINQ (NUMBER FIVE): Lis queue de rénard: Eremurus Eremurus is called in French Lis queue de renard, literally “Lily-Tail-of-a-Fox.” Shamans and White Magic practitioners (whom we know for…

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Top 10 Funniest French Names of Flowers (Part 1) Posted by on Jan 19, 2013

If you pay attention to English, you’ll notice here and there a few names of flowers which are quite funny: Ever heard of “Busy Lizzie“, or even better, of the slightly pushy-sounding “Forget-Me-Not” (“…especially on my birthdays”, kind of thing)? Now, how about le français? Thanks to our carefully selected TOP 10, there’s no shred of doubt about…

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