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dimbear

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10. My guess: Norman Conquest. Sneaking away from your army unit is called

Reply to BillStein (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 06:48 PM

Apr 2012

taking French leave. Of course, if you're French, what you do is " filez comme l'anglais."

(For nonspeakers, that would mean taking English leave.)

And so it goes.