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> Every shopkeeper in Paris will say "good journey!" to you as you walk out the door. Actually, it's bonne journée, which means "good day"...
by molmalo 11y ago
> Every shopkeeper in Paris will say "good journey!" to you as you walk out the door.
Actually, it's bonne journée, which means "good day"...
- timr 11y agoAh, indeed. I knew that was the word they were saying, but I'd always, incorrectly, assumed that the jour/journée distinction derived from the same root as the English "journey". Oops. Bad example. Thanks for pointing that out. (EDIT: actually, looking up the English word, we borrowed it from the French journée! So I got the example right, but for entirely the wrong reasons, and in the wrong direction.)