Saw a lovely bird the other day: a black bird with brilliant red patches on its wings ~ well, on its shoulders, really. And I thought, red... shoulders... red/rouge... shoulders/epaulettes... a little black bird with red epaulettes. I wonder, I said to myself, I wonder what it's called...
Looked it up today, & yup, you guessed it... it is known as the carouge à épaulette, or, the red~winged blackbird.
{wallop~palm~to~forehead}
Great! Now I'm an idiot in both official languages. :P
That's got to be construed as some sort of improvement, somehow...
Posted by edgar at May 28, 2004 01:59 PM