Today, we eat "mayonnaise", we taste "sardines", we wear "pants" ... without really asking too many questions. And yet, these very common words were, not so long ago, proper names.
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Did you know, for example, that the "boycott" comes from the name of Charles Cunningham Boycott, "a wealthy landowner from Western Ireland who treated his farmers badly and suffered a blockade on their part" ? That the "shoemaker" comes from the city of Cordoba, "famous for its leathers, with an influence of" "cord" " ? This is what we discover in the very fascinating Dictionary in love with the French language by Jean-Loup Chiflet (Plon).
Will you be able to restore their stories to these proper words that have become common? Le Figaro invites you to take the test.
