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Show Testing English French. Numerous opportunities for tllo testing of Brltlih spoken French occur oc-cur nowadays, writes a correspondent of tiio Manchester Guardian, nnd I, hnvo no doubt very slmplo things wlli often provo a stumbling block. I remember re-member nn expcrlenco of my own. It happened at Rouen during a llttlo tour in Franco with a couplo of friends. I managed to act as Interpreter for tho party nhd got on very well until, ns L pnld tho bill at a Rouen hotel, tho lady who took tho monoy observed "Fay boo-tong." I smiled sadly. Sho vith an oven sadder smllo repeated the observation. Sho gavo a receipt, so it could not havo been anything of financial Importance, but I went nway ignorant of her meaning. I looked up "bouton," and found that It meant In addition to "button" such other things as "bud" and even "pimple." Neither word could havo beon what sho meant, of that I was suro; but not until four hours later, ns our train np-proached np-proached Paris, did it dawn upon mo that the lady had simply been saying It was a flno day "Fait beau temps." But Bho really said, "Boo," not "Bo," and that was tho causo of the trouble |