Did the word come from the aristocracy? I don't think slang generally does...
--- On Sun, 3/1/09, Andy <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Wasn't knowledge of French common in the aristocracy?
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> With the flowers vs. manliness thing, wasn't that more
> or less
> inverted for some time in Japan?
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> Andy
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