The French (Language) Dispatch pt. 8

The continuing story of the Français spoken outside the Académie

The Académie Française must be rolling in its grave (Photo by William Sidnam)

B.S. Protection

During summer, I came across a poster promoting a security company called B.S. Protection. I couldn’t help but laugh — the word ‘BS’ in English is, of course, slang for “bullshit”, which probably isn’t the image that a company specialising in…