Word: oeufs
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...Oeuf's Tabouche...
...wish to ask omniscient TIME a queson arising from the fact that tennis is international, I, provincial. This summer, Ripley's Believe-It-Or-Not feature stated that the tennis ero score "love" originated as an Anglicized pronunciation of the French words l'oeuf, meaning egg. Do non-English speaking tennists call he zero score by the English word "love," or by their native words for: 1) love...
Perhaps a few years hence, when the present requirements in foreign languages begin to bear fruit, the usual breakfast dish will be "oeuf cocotte a la creme--coquettish eggs", as Mr. Britten reports it. Chicken hash will appear incognito as "hachis de voloille aux haricots verts" while a rib of veal will adopt the ambiguous disquise of "cootie de veaux," one of the "noisette" dishes. French, apparently, is the language of gastronomy, and there may yet appear in the catalogue of the French department "Gastronomy 5", the Appreciation of Menus...