In the series of Funny Shop Names(funny from a French perspective), a Dutch friend of mine sent me a couple of pictures which are rather amusing and which I’d like to share.
If you are a Dutch shop owner and you wish to use a French name for your shop (to benefit from the classy image French seems to have), you need to be sure that your fellow countrymen will pronounce your shop name correctly even if they don’t speak French.
Francophile Dutch shop owners have used cunning phonetic spelling of their shop names to ensure that they would be pronounced correctly.
Here is the Dutchified version of Déjà-Vu
Another creative approach is to use
- Wednesday, 10th November 2010 by Armelle Europe
- Category: Language Fun
- Tags: Dutch, French, fun, language, languages, The Netherlands
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