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Thread #162910   Message #3881100
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
09-Oct-17 - 09:37 AM
Thread Name: BS: Use of the English language
Subject: RE: BS: Use of the English language
From: Steve Shaw - PM
Date: 09 Oct 17 - 07:45 AM
It was the "as a result of this" that mystified me, especially after I'd read the item. As Dubya said, the trouble with the French is that they haven't even got a WORD for "entrepreneur" in their language...


Another masterful piece of research there.
However, I suppose it makes you feel linguistically superior to George W Bush, even if he never said it: Snopes

I recall the same story being told about an English MP (some years ago) The quote then was "The trouble with the Welsh is that they have no word for entrepreneur". George Thomas (Speaker of the house, and a Welshman) responded by asking what the English word was.
Of course, that might also be an invented tale, but it has been around long enough (several decades) that someone thought they could re-use it and attribute it to George W Bush.