{"id":972,"date":"2012-01-09T17:38:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T16:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=972"},"modified":"2012-01-09T17:38:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T16:38:07","slug":"un-verre-de-vin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"Un verre de vin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Un verre de vin\/bi\u00e8re : a glass of wine\/beer<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps because &#8216;verre&#8217; ends in e it is easy to imagine it is a feminine noun but it isn&#8217;t (&#8216;un&#8217; not &#8216;une&#8217;). Apparently, all over France, waiters sigh when we foreigners ask for &#8216;une&#8217; verre de vin\/bi\u00e8re.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Un autre verre\/encore un verre svp*<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A cousin once told me that, if one wants another drink, it is better to say &#8216;encore un verre, s&#8217;il vous pla\u00eet*&#8217; because &#8216;un autre verre&#8217; can imply dissatisfaction. However, a French friend recently queried that this is probably better the other way round, so my guiding hand is deserting you here. Just remember it&#8217;s best to smile and add &#8216;merci\/thank you&#8217;. And <em>never <\/em>forget to say &#8216;Bonjour Madame\/Monsieur&#8217; before uttering a single word at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Un verre de vin\/bi\u00e8re : a glass of wine\/beer Perhaps because &#8216;verre&#8217; ends in e it is easy to imagine it is a feminine noun but it isn&#8217;t (&#8216;un&#8217; not &#8216;une&#8217;). Apparently, all over France, waiters sigh when we foreigners &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=972\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yjly-fG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}