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.....