who knows? I doubt the people here have any clue. They're clueless. 95% of this town doesn't know that this town is french. They all go what's that corn thingy shown everywhere. (cour de lis) or the town next to me Des Peres (Our Fathers) yet most people say Dez Perez. You'd think they'd know better all the major roads are french names.
As a follow up to the couguar thread that you finish with St-Pierre et Miquelon SD, I must say that as a French Canadian there's nohing more amazing to see all those French names everywhere in North America where nobody ever speak French Anymore. All those guys were amazing explorers. It's also very funny to hear the pronounciations of some names, one among others being Boise (wooded land) or the name of the native nation Nez Percés (pierced nose), Baton Rouge and so on. On a personnal note, I must say that for those last 3, I couldn't figure out what it was when I first heard those pronounced by locals, especially the "nezperce" one that sounds like "nay pair say" in French but that the Natives themselves pronounced "naze purse"!!! I needed to see it written to figure it out !!! How amazing, and how sad at the same time.
