Expat Life in the South of France

I have been coming across more and more English words which have become part of the French language, to the extent that some French don’t even realise that the words are originally English!  All of us who live here could give several examples, the most common being weekend, okay, hamburger, business, stop (try telling them that’s English) rap, etc. However one anecdote really made me laugh. An English speaking friend went into a computer shop and wanting Windows XP, asked for Fenêtres XP, to the complete confusion of the salesman. (No madame, it’s called Windows, not Fenêtres!)