BILINGUAL MOMENTS: Jeux de mots

My kids' favourite joke at the moment is:

'As-tu un cerf?'

'Non'

'As-tu un veau?'

'Non'

'Alors tu n'as pas de cerveau!'

'Do you have a stag?'

'No'

'Do you have a calf?'

'No'

'Then you don't have a brain!'

Cerf = Stag

Veau = Calf

Cerveau = Brain

Also after years of enjoying the Babapapa books in English, the penny finally dropped at the French school fete that the gorgeous round pink hero is based on candyfloss! (Barbe à Papa, literally 'Daddy's beard', is French for candyfloss).