Demande la parole, daims the floor

4. Ben, a spelling indicating a common, but incorrect pronunciation of bien.

5. Et de pas mal . . . , and that, too, by a good many years.

Page 26. — i. Chevet, a Parisian caterer to whom Labiche refers in several plays.

2. Je leur-z-y, ungrammatical ;je leur préfère, or better, je prê- /"ère, would be correct. Since haricots begins with an aspirate h,

the liaison represented by the 0 is in both cases incorrect ; yet the current pronunciation of entre quatre-z-yeux is in good use.