Quebecers regret the laxity of the French towards English. “They are very impressed by the number of anglicisms we use,” says Oriane Silve, a 25-year-old French woman.
They don’t say, for example, “croptop” but “belly sweater”, or “shopping” but “store”“Anglicisms are not widely accepted here,’ says Jean-Baptiste Reboul, a young French expatriate in Sherbrooke, east of Montreal.