Les cadets crient «M’aider!”»

The things you learn when you’re learning another language… The international voice distress call is “mayday,” used to call for help in both in the air and on the water. The word is a phonetic transliteration of the French m’aidez or, in its infinitive form, m’aider, literally “help me!” The term was coined by the […]

Musique dimanche (Music Sunday)

I was so excited about the outcome of the election in New Zealand yesterday that I forgot about a Music Saturday post, so today you get a “Musique dimanche” instead. Le sujet du poste d’aujourd’hui est Philip Proulx, chanteur, auteur-compositeur et guitariste québécois. Il joue en tant que « Pépé et sa guitare », et […]