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Sacre bleu! New York tabs revel in punning Franglais headlines
The arrest of
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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has been greeted by New York's popular papers with a raft of anti-French headlines, lame puns and clichéd phrases en Français. Witness this splash in the
New York Post
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, "Frog legs it! " It's reminiscent of the The Sun's "Hop off you Frog" campaign, which followed direct action by French farmers in 1984 opposed to the import British lamb. Read more
Summary
The arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been greeted by New York's popular papers with a raft of anti-French headlines, lame puns and clichéd phrases en Français.
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