Saturday was international visitors day.
We had folks from France, South Africa, Holland, Colombia and the USA. Most everyone spoke brilliant English but one thing made me realise just what a difficult language we have. One of the Dutch ladies asked us for a plowmans (pronounced as in BLOW) and then a very pleasant young French man, doing a work placement in Burton on Trent, ordered "three quiche and a pluff-mans".
His pronunciation of "quiche" was ok I suppose.
Though through enough thought and practice he might learn hough to say plough.
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