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Parisians will have heard their share of Franglais - a mix of French and English - this summer as the French capital played host to people from around the world during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

And even organisers leaned into the linguistic 尘茅濒补苍驳别 by producing posters featuring a range of Franglais puns. 

鈥淓au l脿 l脿,鈥� read a poster spotted by one of our team at the Paralympic Games advertising the fact that free drinking water (鈥�eau鈥�) was available. 

The poster includes two of the Olympic mascots, the Phryges, next to a drinking fountain. 

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Another, encouraging people to put their rubbish in the bin (鈥榖enne鈥�) read 鈥淣o benne, no gain!鈥� 

And one poster, highlighting the fact that Paris was powering the Games venues with renewable energy included the line 鈥淲att a good idea鈥� with an explanatory sentence in French that a watt is a unit of energy.

Olympic organisers are far from the first to use Franglais to get their point across. In 2021, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson President Macron to 鈥減renez un grip鈥� and 鈥渄onnez-moi un break鈥�. Mr Johnson, in his biography of Winston Churchill, the World War Two leader for 鈥渟ome of the greatest franglais of all time鈥�. 

Churchill is said to have warned French President Charles de Gaulle: 鈥�Si vous me double-crosserez, je vous liquiderai.鈥� (Roughly, 鈥淚f you double-cross me, I will liquidate you.鈥�) 

And de Gaulle claimed he had learned English so he could understand Churchill's French. 

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