I love it when the strip touches upon tiny French things (says the former French professor :-) In case anyone's interested re today's "ensemble" reference, here's a true fact: French is much, MUCH easier to pronounce than English because the emphasis is always on the penultimate (second-to-last syllable). Easy, eh? Now if only Americans would stop saying entrepreNEWER and connoisSEWER, my life would be complete. Short French rule of thumb: NOTHING French *ever* rhymes with SEWER!

--Wendy