tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post3573422951467267459..comments2024-03-28T18:57:20.920+01:00Comments on Living the life in Saint-Aignan: EnhancementsKen Broadhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430899802705818716noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-30241081985977840892012-10-01T09:22:56.143+02:002012-10-01T09:22:56.143+02:00Wasn't it Dan Quale who got caught out with hi...Wasn't it Dan Quale who got caught out with his 'potatoes'?Lesleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-13821601891161760172012-09-30T23:35:19.010+02:002012-09-30T23:35:19.010+02:00There's also fresco secco, painting with water...There's also fresco secco, painting with watercolors on dry plaster. I just learned that looking up the plural of fresco.<br /><br />Hats off to you for figuring out how to make Photoshop work; it was way beyond me.Carolynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-38926296711926080822012-09-30T20:29:19.956+02:002012-09-30T20:29:19.956+02:00Thanks for the comment CHM. Il y a un peu de flott...Thanks for the comment CHM. <i>Il y a un peu de flottement dans le sens du terme fresque ou</i> fresco. <i>C'est normal, comme le plâtre et les couleurs sont un peu aqueux...</i><br /><br />I don't know if there's any rule about the plural of English words that end in O. It's just usage -- or maybe it is that foreign-looking word (patio, cello, piano, rodeo) and abbreviated/truncated words (memo, curio, even radio) don't take -oes but -os in the plural. Of course, tomatoes and potatoes are not really English-looking words, when you think about it.Ken Broadhursthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430899802705818716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-43014126159677838452012-09-30T19:14:15.899+02:002012-09-30T19:14:15.899+02:00My 1969 Heritage Dictionary of the English Languag...My 1969 Heritage Dictionary of the English Language gives frescoes or frescos as plural for fresco. To be consistent it gives also two acceptations of the word fresco: <br />1. The art of painting by pressing earth colors dissolved in water into fresh plaster.<br />2. A painting executed on plaster [doesn’t say wet, fresh or dry].<br /><br />I wonder which acceptation would take the E in the plural!<br /><br />Needless to say your pictures are goegeous.chmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-78919540445071888112012-09-30T18:53:45.184+02:002012-09-30T18:53:45.184+02:00Et la lumière fut..!Et la lumière fut..!chmnoreply@blogger.com