Torturous French

I read a great quote from P G Wodehouse's The Luck of the Bodkins.

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.

It must be the most perfect description of our attempts with a foreign language.

ps Thanks to young Harry Campbell for spotting the typo