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Thread #59418   Message #1862306
Posted By: MMario
18-Oct-06 - 12:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Amos - the origin of "frog" for "french" is well known and documented. Good Queen Bess (God Save Her Majesty!) was at one time flirting with the idea of marrying some french noble whose name I don't recall at the moment.

anyway - he was bug-eyed and reminded her of a frog - and she referred to him as "my little frog"; the term stuck as meaning "french".