Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 12:17:19 -0600

From: debaron[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UIUC.EDU

Subject: Re: boot and bonnet



When I fulbrighted in France back in '78 we had an old Renault 6. The

French word for sparkplug is "bougie" (literally, candle). One of my

French colleagues in the English Department at Poitiers asked my one day,

when I had trouble starting the car, if the candles were ok. I've come to

prefer that translation, though my knowledge of the internal combustion

engine has not increased much in the interim.



Dennis

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