Pourquoi?

It should be obvious to most that to frenchify something is gallicise it or to make it French. That much is true, but did you know that in the nineteenth century to say that someone was ‘frenchified’ was not to say they were wearing the latest French fashions. It was to say something very different indeed. “I’ve heard that Lady A is frenchified,” might indicate that Lady A had contracted one of those nasty diseases affecting her most delicate parts. It’s off to the clinic with her, then, and we can cross her out of the Little Black Book.

So, what to do? Should I still call the blog ‘frenchified’? or would some readers think I’d be writing about crabs (not the eating kind)? I’ve decided to stick with it. You never know, I might just get some new readers by default.