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It amuses me and confuses French students of English and anglophone students of French that the French verb supporter, rather than meaning "to support" means "to put up with".

However, to talk about football fans, the French have borrowed the English word supporters and frangled it into the French term supporteurs. It makes me giggle to imagine French football "fans" in the stands, looking at their watches and loudly asking, "Is it over yet?"

srah - Thursday, 29 May 2003 - 3:16 PM
Tags: french

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