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Le 02/07/2026 à 19:02, Hibou a écrit :
> Le 02/07/2026 à 15:43, athel.cb@gmail.com a écrit :
>>
>> Is the word charabanc still used? I don't remember hearing it since 
>> the 1950s,
>> and not much then.
> 
> I think it remains alive in jokey contexts. I recall remarking to Mme 
> Hibou that a train we took into Town late on a Friday afternoon was like 
> a tarts' charabanc. I hope the passengers had a pleasant evening.
> 
> It's interesting to flip between BrE and AmE here; the curves are rather 
> different (I'll leave to others to do any further investigation):
> <https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph? 
> content=charabanc&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=false>
> 


Which reminds me of a tale of tarts by Maupassant - not 'Boule de suif' 
(which is excellent, though with only one tart, and I don't think I've 
ever understood the why of the Franco-Prussian War) - no - got it! - 'La 
maison Tellier'. Tarts on an outing in the country. It was made into a 
film, or more than one film.

<https://www.audible.fr/blog/resume-la-maison-tellier> (in French)

Ben, voilà.

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todays wordle: bused Madhu <enometh@meer.net> - 2026-07-01 15:22 +0530
  Re: todays wordle: bused Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-01 11:03 +0100
  Re: todays wordle: bused occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-01 12:12 +0200
    Re: todays wordle: bused Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-07-01 19:24 +0100
      Re: todays wordle: bused richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-07-01 19:08 +0000
        Re: todays wordle: bused Phil <phil@anonymous.invalid> - 2026-07-02 14:35 +0100
          Re: todays wordle: bused liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-07-02 16:23 +0100
          Re: todays wordle: bused richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-07-02 17:37 +0000
            Re: todays wordle: bused "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-07-03 09:03 +0100
              Re: todays wordle: bused Phil <phil@anonymous.invalid> - 2026-07-03 09:43 +0100
                Re: todays wordle: bused athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-03 13:11 +0000
                Re: todays wordle: bused wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) - 2026-07-03 17:19 +0000
              Re: todays wordle: bused liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-07-03 10:53 +0100
                Re: todays wordle: bused "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-07-03 19:54 +0100
                Re: todays wordle: bused liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-07-03 21:05 +0100
        Re: todays wordle: bused ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-07-02 13:40 +0000
      Re: todays wordle: bused athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-02 14:43 +0000
        Re: todays wordle: bused Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-02 19:02 +0100
          Re: todays wordle: bused Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-02 19:20 +0100
        Re: todays wordle: bused Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-07-02 19:23 +0100
        Re: todays wordle: bused liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-07-02 19:38 +0100
        Re: todays wordle: bused Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-03 08:58 +1000
    Re: todays wordle: bused Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-02 10:07 +1000
      Re: todays wordle: bused wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) - 2026-07-02 02:30 +0000
        Re: todays wordle: bused Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2026-07-02 23:08 +1200
      Re: todays wordle: bused Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-01 23:41 -0400
        Re: todays wordle: bused Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-02 22:53 +1000
          Re: todays wordle: bused wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) - 2026-07-02 17:35 +0000
            Re: todays wordle: bused Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> - 2026-07-03 22:14 -0400
      Re: todays wordle: bused Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-07-02 12:08 +0100

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