Word: hola
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...stand guard side by side with French khaki. British and French are making honest efforts to understand each other. The Scottish reel, introduced by highlanders stationed at Fontainebleau, has been taken up enthusiastically by French and Belgian soldiers; Scotsmen, though, are still shocked to hear their reeling allies cry "Hola!" instead of "Och!" A correspondent last week overheard the following conversation outside a guardroom between an R.A.F. corporal and a French private...
...feel hungry; she see appel on ze arbre. Serpent se promenade sur l'arbre make one walk on ze tree. 'Mons. le Serpent,' says Iv, 'weel you not have ze bonte to peck me some appel? J'ai faim.' 'Certainement, Madame,' says ze serpent, 'charme de vous voir.' 'Hola, mon ami! ar-r-etez-vous,' says Adam; 'stop, stop! Que songez-vous faire? What madness is zeis? You must not peek ze appel.' Ze snake he take one pinch of snuff, he say, 'Ah! Mons. Adam, do you not know zere is nossing prohebeet for ze ladies? Madame Iv, permit...