On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, Andrew James Llwellyn Cary wrote: > > We americans are famous for anglisizing all sorts of non-english names and > words. > I would like to add that there are many cases when we hyper Francifize (?) words such as Saint-Saens, fleur-de-lis, Vichissoise and Tete-a-tete all of which get their last consonants deleted by people who try just a little too hard.....