Coup Droit wrote:

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My mother always used to call the fleur-de-lis emblem 'für elise' (Or 'fur elise', I don't think she was umlaut specific )

And she was very proud of herself, as though she was being very cultured and knowing

'Oh, yes, I do like that cushion design, with the 'fur elise' pattern'

I never had the heart to disillusion her

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 lol - in a similar vein, my mother (who never let us forget she had been a Latin scholar ) insisted on calling jodhpurs jod- furs