Rue Renard

One of the very first words I ever learned in French was the word "fox". I learned it from an episode of Doctor Who, ::insert reader's lament and add "Here we go again. Will he ever shut up about Doctor Who?"::.

The Mind Robber, in short, trapped in the Land of Fiction, Jaime and Zoe get shut into a giant book, a French book, and they are turned into fiction. The text on the giant page is in French, presumably from some sort of French grammar school reader. The title of the chapter is "Un Renard". There is other text, and I should watch it to see if I can find out what it is and then see about purchasing the full book. That's one of my very first French words, possibly THE first... brought to me by PBS and the BBC.

Every time I see this sign along side this rural, central PA road Route 322 during my many journeys to and from my home-away-from-home, I am instantly reminded of that particular story and my earliest exposure to French.

"Rue Renard" is French for "Fox Street".

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