Most everything said in French sounds better than the English translation. Escargot-- trippingly off the tongue; snails-- not so much.

Don't forget the classic French children's song, Alouette. Only in French can we sing so gaily of plucking the feathers of the head and other appendages of an unsuspecting bird. I have always thought that if teachers taught the song in English to groups of knee-nibblers, they would have been called on the carpet by PETA.

--kla