The French have a musical term for paperclip. They call it le trombone. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Le Trombone”
Grant, remember when we were talking about the French term for pie chart?
Yeah, but I don’t remember what the word was.
It was le camembert.
Oh, yeah.
Like the cheese.
Little wheel of cheese.
Yeah, yeah, with a little wedge out of it.
That’s the best.
That reminded Sarah Ford in Bozeman, Montana, of a French term that she had come across that was another great example of looking at a common thing in a different way.
And that’s the French word for paperclip.
What is it?
It’s le trombone.
Oh, that’s right.
It’s like a trombone.
It looks like the slide on a trombone.
Right.
I thought that was great.
Thanks, Sarah.
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