Not Washed or Cooked, # 313

Someone recommended to me The Disappearance, an eight-part French thriller shown on BBC4. The subtitles came with a glaring mangle:

Epiosde

Double-take, # 168

Clare Selley has been exploring York, where she was quite taken aback by this sign:

butiq for boutique

Double-take, # 131

This word came into English from French and, like most loanwords from French, lost its accent. As John Holloway has discovered, Disney — or at least some franchise riding on the back of Frozen — is trying, in its own mangled way, to put it back:

Decór