Showing posts with label Tournesol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tournesol. Show all posts

Thursday, February 3, 2011

French Word of The Day

Tournesol.


Sunflower. I was baking and the recipe called for Sunflower oil. But if you break down the word to "Tourne" and "Sol" it means "turned soil". I don't know why, but the fact that we named it after the Sun and they named it after the Earth is interesting to me,