I don't get it.
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Pain is French for bread (it’s pronounced pɛ̃)
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:IPA_pronunciation_key
Basically pen but you don’t say the N unless the next word starts with a vowel in which case you pronounce it as if it starts the next word.
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I don't get it...
Pain is the French word for bread. It's just pronounced differently
This post reminded me that i had wanted to look up where "made from scratch" came from:
When the word “scratch” showed up in English—as a verb in the 15th century and a noun in the 16th—it referred to the wound created by running fingernails or claws across the skin.
The source of the word is fuzzy, according to John Ayto’s Dictionary of Word Origins, but it’s “no doubt related to German 'kratzen’ and both probably had their origins in imitation of the sound of scratching.”
Interestingly, the culinary use of “scratch” originated in the sporting world, not the kitchen.
The oldest sports usage, dating back to the 18th century, meant “a line or mark drawn as an indication of a boundary or starting-point,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
It was later applied figuratively with the meaning "from nothing", and it was used thus by James Joyce in Ulysses (1922): "A poor foreign immigrant who started scratch as a stowaway and is now trying to turn an honest penny."
Thereafter it was taking up in cooking once boxed mixes and prepared foods became widely available. Today it is a badge of honor to be able to say one made a culinary delight from scratch.
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Omelette du formage
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The french baker trying to get rid of their stock
The French wholesale baker when someone enters his store
